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Dorson mss., 1925-1981

Title: Dorson mss., 1925-1981

Consists of the papers of Richard Mercer Dorson, 1916-1981, Indiana University professor and internationally renowned folklorist. The correspondence section, consisting of approximately 14,500 items arranged chronologically, documents Dorson's determination to turn the American Folklore Society and American folklore studies away from amateurism toward rigorous scholarship. The correspondence also shows Dorson's wide network of national and international relationships established with numerous scholars over the years. Writings in the collection are divided into those by Dorson and those by other folklorists, historians, and colleagues. Fieldwork and research materials in the collection include notes, transcriptions, and field tapes. Dorson's Indiana University related files include materials for the Folklore Institute, the Folklore Archives, the Archives of Traditional Music, the History Department, and various university committees. Also here are papers of folklore and history students, dissertation materials, and Dorson's class notes.

ArchivalResource: ca. 65,000 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA1247 View

Krey, August C. (August Charles), 1887-1961. Introductory speech for Theodore C. Blegen, 1955 January 27 / by August Charles Krey.

Title: Introductory speech for Theodore C. Blegen, 1955 January 27 / by August Charles Krey.

A typed and annotated speech introducing Theodore C. Blegen, a Hamline University history professor and Minnesota Historical Society Superintendent, at his Minnesota Historical Society lecture, "This Minnesota."

ArchivalResource: 5 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122524498 View

Peerson, Cleng, 1782-1865. Cleng Peerson letter, 1824, 1825, 1924.

Title: Cleng Peerson letter, 1824, 1825, 1924.

Thormod Madland's handwritten copy, dated June 28, 1825, of a letter written by Cleng Peerson (Kleng Pedersen) at New York on December 20, 1824, telling of Peerson's experiences as the advance agent of a group of Norwegians who came to the United States in 1825 on the vessel "Restauration." In Norwegian.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122508927 View

Theodore Blegen papers, 1878-1968.

Title: Theodore Blegen papers, 1878-1968.

Kensington Runestone research files (1899-1968) andmiscellaneous correspondence files (1878-1956) of Theodore C. Blegen (1891-1969), aUniversity of Minnesota professor (1927-1939), dean (1940-1960), superintendent(1931-1939), and research fellow (1960-1969) at the Minnesota Historical Society.The runestone files generated in the 1960s while he was researching the stone,concern a large stone bearing runic inscriptions that were purportedly carved byViking explorers, and which was found near Kensington (Douglas County), Minnesota in1898.

ArchivalResource:

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Association of American Universities. Association of Graduate Schools. Records, 1923-1969.

Title: Records, 1923-1969.

Correspondence, financial reports, proceedings, newsletters, programs, addresses, and other records. Correspondents include Theodore C. Blegen, Lewis Hahn, Vern O. Knudsen, and Everett Walters.

ArchivalResource: 4.7 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28413583 View

Minnesota Committee on Conservation of Cultural Resources. Records, 1941-1942.

Title: Records, 1941-1942.

Includes correspondence, minutes, and records storage survey forms of the Minnesota committee patterned after and cooperating with the national committee established by the National Resources Planning Board.

ArchivalResource: 0.3 cu. ft. (5 folders and 2 packages of 3 in. x 5 in. index cards).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86146551 View

Barton, Albert O. (Albert Olaus). Albert O. Barton papers, 1858-1948.

Title: Albert O. Barton papers, 1858-1948.

The papers consist of correspondence, primarily for the years 1916-1947; manuscripts of articles for the "Wisconsin Farmer"; notes on state and local history; and drafts of original stories, poems, and plays. Many letters and notes contain biographical material on Robert M. La Follette Sr., and on the La Follette family. Barton also collected data on other persons of Wisconsin interest, notably John F. Appleby, Ole Bull, Hans C. Heg, Marcus Thrane, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The collection also contains information on the history of early Madison and Dane County, on soldiers of the Revolution and the War of 1812, on Norwegian settlement in the state, and on old cemetery inscriptions. Included in the collection are a few small groups of manuscripts of other persons collected by Barton: scattered business papers, 1862-1873, of B. W. Suckow, early Madison printer and bookbinder; Civil War letters, including a number from Libby Prison, written by Ole C. Johnson of Stoughton, lieutenant colonel of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; and correspondence, 1868-1896, of Rasmus B. Anderson. Among Barton's own correspondents were John J. Blaine, Theodore Blegen, August Derleth, Carl Russell Fish, Zona Gale, Hjalmer R. Holand, Philip La Follette, Robert M. La Follette Sr., Milo M. Quaife, and Joseph Schafer. The photographic portion of the processed collection consists of images of Norway collected by Barton. Images include views of scenery, harbors, fishing and whaling, and small villages. Also included are images of Laplanders. Sixteen images are from a series of photographs titled "Norge" made by Axel Lindahl. The photographs were made circa 1890. The processed portion is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

ArchivalResource: 5.0 c.f. (25 archives boxes) and22 photographs; plusadditions of 0.4 c.f. and56 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692418 View

Heilbron, Julius, 1860-1940. Julius Heilbron and family papers, 1876-1970.

Title: Julius Heilbron and family papers, 1876-1970.

Legal papers and letters (1876-1880) relating to Heilbron's emigration from Germany and a diary he kept on the journey (1880); a record of band concerts in St. Paul, Minnesota (1887-1891); letters on the Spanish-American War (1898) and on conditions in Europe following World War I (1918); and articles and correspondence of his daughter Bertha, a member of the Minnesota Historical Society's staff, on many aspects of Minnesota history, including frontier artists, Norwegian emigration to the U.S. (1928), the Paul Bunyan legend (1940-1941), frontier celebrations in Minnesota, St. Paul's Jewish community (1953), Daniel D. Emmett (1857-1916), Julius Austrian (1951-1955), Adolph Hoeffler (1952), and the death (1970) of Elizabeth (Mrs. Solon J.) Buck.

ArchivalResource: 13.0 cu. ft. (11 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313829758 View

August Charles Krey Papers, 1887-1961.

Title: August Charles Krey Papers 1887-1961.

A.C. Krey’s papers, accumulated throughout his career as a historian at the University of Minnesota, contain correspondence by and about the leading contemporary historians in the U.S. Krey’s leadership in national and state historical organizations such as the American Association of University Professors, American Historical Association especially its Commission on the Investigation of Social Studies in the Schools, Minnesota Historical Society. and the National Council for the Social Studies.

ArchivalResource: 16.8 linear feet (41 boxes).

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/uarc00973.xml View

University of Minnesota. Correspondence with Alma Scott, 1945.

Title: Correspondence with Alma Scott, 1945.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (6 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63644339 View

Paulson, O. (Ole), 1832-1907. General Sibley's expedition, 1907.

Title: General Sibley's expedition, 1907.

Describes Paulson's experiences as captain in the 9th Minnesota Infantry, Company H, while on march with the 1863 Sibley Expedition, including the daily tedium, extreme heat, and a battle with the Dakota (July 24). Typescript translation, by Theodore C. Blegen.

ArchivalResource: 17 leaves on partial microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313821135 View

Holvik, Johan Andreas, 1880-1960. Johan Andreas Holvik papers, 1899-1960.

Title: Johan Andreas Holvik papers, 1899-1960.

Correspondence, notes, articles, clippings, publications, and related materials pertaining to the career of Holvik, a professor of Norse at St. Olaf College, Northfield (Minn.), and at Concordia College, Moorhead (Minn.). The primary areas of documentation are Norwegian-American culture, organizations, publications, and scholarship, and the controversy over the authenticity of the Kensington rune stone in Alexandria, Douglas County (Minn.), in which Holvik served as a language consultant for the Minnesota Historical Society.

ArchivalResource: 2.75 cu. ft. (8 boxes and 6 oversize items), and 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615965 View

Barnhart mss., 1813-1962

Title: Barnhart mss. 1813-1962

Consists of the papers of John Donald Barnhart, 1895-1967, professor of history at Indiana University.

ArchivalResource: 706 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC4947 View

Carlton C. Qualey papers, 1865, 1904-1988.

Title: Carlton C. Qualey papers, 1865, 1904-1988.

Correspondence (1926-1988), theses (1929-1936), research files (1933-1940), class syllabus files (1942-1973), association and organization records (1939-1987), conference and seminar materials (1947-1985), speeches (1949-1982), publications (ca.1938-1983), miscellaneous subject files (1925-1985), photographs, book reviews, and newspaper clippings of a college history professor and researcher specializing in ethnic and immigration history, especially regarding Norwegian immigration to the United States.

ArchivalResource: 8.0 cu. ft. (9 boxes).

http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00357.xml View

Blegen, Theodore Christian, 1891-1969. Index of Theodore Christian Blegen, undated.

Title: Index of Theodore Christian Blegen, undated.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71068172 View

Guy Stanton Ford papers, 1885-1965

Title: Guy Stanton Ford papers 1885-1965

The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Guy Stanton Ford, professor of history and dean of the Graduate School, 1913-1938 and president of the University of Minnesota, 1938-1941.

ArchivalResource: 40 record boxes (29 linear ft.)

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Blegen, Theodore Christian, 1891-1969, Mrs. Materials relating to Hamline Branch Library study clubs, undated and 1897-1980.

Title: Materials relating to Hamline Branch Library study clubs, undated and 1897-1980.

Programs (1897-1980), with courses of study and membership, of various study clubs that met at the Hamline Branch of the Saint Paul Public Library; and biographical sketches and essays (undated, and 1924-1941) concerning the Hamline community and the Merriam Park area of St. Paul, Minnesota, presented before the Hamline Fortnightly Club, one of the Hamline Branch Library study clubs.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313866193 View

Blegen, John H., 1851-1928. John H. Blegen reminiscences, [1886].

Title: John H. Blegen reminiscences, [1886].

Typed copies of an account of a missionary journey from Sand Hill (Polk County, Minnesota) to the Mouse River region of Dakota Territory in July 1886 by Blegen, a minister of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America and a teacher at Augsburg Seminary, Minneapolis. The purpose of the trip was to organize new Lutheran churches in Dakota Territory. There is information on travel difficulties, settlements and towns (especially Lutheran), penetration by Missouri Synod Lutherans, services conducted by Blegen, and former Minnesotans he encountered.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86147136 View

Rolvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931. Selected O. E. Rolvaag papers, Undated and 1896-1934.

Title: Selected O. E. Rolvaag papers, Undated and 1896-1934.

Microfilmed correspondence (undated and 1903-1934), diary (1896-ca. 1899), and beginnings of an autobiography (undated), as well as six original letters of the acclaimed Norwegian American author and educator.

ArchivalResource: 13 microfilm reels; and 1 folder, containing 6 items, in partial box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313833374 View

Blegen, Theodore Christian, 1891-1969. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and the discovery of Lake Itasca.

Title: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and the discovery of Lake Itasca. [1932]

ArchivalResource: 17 leaves. 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20721300 View

Carlton C. Qualey papers, 1865, 1904-1988.

Title: Carlton C. Qualey papers, 1865,1904-1988.

The collection documents the academic career of a college history professor andresearcher specializing in ethnic and immigration history, especially regarding Norwegianimmigration to the United States.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00357.xml View

Preus, J. A. O. (Jacob Aall Ottesen), 1883-1961. J.A.O. Preus and family papers, 1853-1946.

Title: J.A.O. Preus and family papers, 1853-1946.

Correspondence, speeches, bills, deeds, pamphlets, campaign literature, and clippings, mainly 1903-1924, relating largely to the political (Republican) and personal career of Preus, who served as a clerk-assistant to U.S. Senator Knute Nelson and to Minnesota Governor Adolph O. Eberhart, as Minnesota commissioner of insurance (1911-1915), as state auditor (1915-1921), and as governor (1921-1925). He was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate (1923) and became vice-president (1926-?) of the W.A. Alexander Insurance Company, Chicago.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 cu. ft. (38 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122411542 View

Scott, Alma, b. 1892. Alma Scott papers, 1876-1974.

Title: Alma Scott papers, 1876-1974.

Letters, literary manuscripts, diary entries, clippings, photographs, and printed materials concerning Scott's family life and her successive careers as executive secretary of the women's division of the St. Paul Association of Public and Business Affairs (1919-26), editor of "Minnesota Parent Bulletin" (1926-28), undercover investigator of employee working conditions in New York City (1928), secretary of the business division of the Trenton (N.J.) YWCA (1929-30), a secretary of the United Parents' Association of Greater New York (1930-31), a New Ulm (Minn.) librarian (1936-47), University of Minnesota librarian (1947-60), and author.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 cu. ft. (13 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523273 View

Northwest Territory Celebration Commission of Minnesota. Northwest Ordinance celebration papers, 1937-1939.

Title: Northwest Ordinance celebration papers, 1937-1939.

Correspondence, financial records, minutes of meetings, and broadsides of this commission organized to take charge of Minnesota's part in the celebration commemorating the enactment of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122568719 View

Blegen, Theodore Christian, 1891-1969. T.C. Blegen papers, 1918-1969.

Title: T.C. Blegen papers, 1918-1969.

The collection comprises personal and professional correspondence of T. C. Blegen, his alphabetical files of materials from and about various organizations and individuals, books, papers, articles, addresses and speeches by Blegen (partly organized by subject), clippings and source materials, certificates, awards and honors. Also included is a list of books, pamphlets an articles by Blegen, which includes documents and series for which Blegen served as editor.

ArchivalResource: 37.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63300974 View

Blegen, Theodore Christian, 1891-1969. Theodore Christian Blegen papers 1918-1969.

Title: Theodore Christian Blegen papers 1918-1969.

Collection contains correspondence, biographical materials, clippings, information on committees and societies, and writings completed by Theodore Blegen, professor of history and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 30 boxes (30.0 cubic feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/429023846 View

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. ALS, 1916 January 12 : Sagamore Hill, to [Theodore] Blegen.

Title: ALS, 1916 January 12 : Sagamore Hill, to [Theodore] Blegen.

Roosevelt writes to Mr. Blegen that: "we should stand by any nation ... while it is right, and against it when it goes wrong. And we citizens should occupy the same position towards the President." He was opposed to Wilson's policies at this time.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 19.5 x 14 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13879943 View

Blegen, Theodore Christian, 1891-1969. Theodore Blegen papers, 1878-1968.

Title: Theodore Blegen papers, 1878-1968.

Kensington Runestone research files (1899-1968) and miscellaneous correspondence files (1878-1956) of Theodore C. Blegen (1891-1969), a University of Minnesota professor (1927-1939) and dean (1940-1960) and superintendent (1931-1939) and research fellow (1960-1969) at the Minnesota Historical Society. The runestone files generated in the 1960s while he was researching the stone, concern a large stone bearing runic inscriptions that were purportedly carved by Viking explores, and which was found near Kensington (Douglas County), Minnesota in 1898.

ArchivalResource: 1.4 cu. ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523235 View

Sheldon Glueck papers

Title: Sheldon Glueck papers

Includes papers relating to Glueck's literary interests as well as material on Glueck's career in criminology and administration of criminal justice, especially the Harvard Law School Survey of Crime and Criminal Justice in Boston,1926-1933, war crimes and criminals, Glueck's work on the Model Penal Code of the American Law Institute, membership on two advisory committees on Federal rules of criminal procedure (1941-1942,1960-1966), and his study (1926-1938) of the Belgian Ministry of Justice. The bulk of the collection consists of professional correspondence (1920's-1972), chiefly with professional organizations, public and private agencies, and their respective officials.

ArchivalResource: 129 boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00073/catalog View

Baker Street Irregulars (Organization : U.S.) archive, 1923-2007.

Title: Baker Street Irregulars (Organization : U.S.) archive, 1923-2007.

Papers and records of the Baker Street Irregulars, a Sherlock Holmes literarysociety, including correspondence, business files, and publications.

ArchivalResource: 59 boxes and 1 portfolio box (20 linear ft.)

https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?brand=general&docId=InU-Li-VAE0576.xml&doc.view=entire_text View

Materials relating to Hamline Branch Library study clubs., Undated and 1897-1980.

Title: Materials relating to Hamline Branch Library study clubs. Undated and 1897-1980.

Programs (1897-1980) of various study clubs that met at the Hamline Branch of the Saint Paul Public Library; and biographical sketches and articles (undated and 1924-1941) concerning the Hamline community and the Merriam Park area of St. Paul, Minnesota, presented before the Hamline Fortnightly Club, one of the Hamline Branch Library study clubs.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/P2548.xml View

Wendell Holmes Stephenson Papers, 1820-1968

Title: Wendell Holmes Stephenson Papers, 1820-1968

ArchivalResource: Linear feet of space occupied: 34.6; Number of items: ca. 25,950

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Papers of the University of Minnesota Department of Surgery, 1927-1968

Title: Papers of the University of Minnesota Department of Surgery, 1927-1968

The collections of primarily correspondence files were compiled during the period when Owen Harding Wangensteen was head of the Department of Surgery, 1941-1967. During Wangensteen's administration, advances were made in cancer treatment, open heart surgery, and treatment of stomach ulcers. The collection also documents Wangensteen's fund raising efforts for support of Base Hospital 26 during World War II, construction of Diehl Hall, building the book and journal collections for the Bio-Medical Library, History of Medicine Professorship, and providing funding to build the Wangensteen Library of the History of Medicine.

ArchivalResource: 36 record boxes

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/uarc01007.xml View

Nattestad, Ole, 1807-1886. Beskrivelse over en reise til Nordamerica, 1926 / Ole Knudsen Nattestad ; med forbemerkninger av Theodore C. Blegen.

Title: Beskrivelse over en reise til Nordamerica, 1926 / Ole Knudsen Nattestad ; med forbemerkninger av Theodore C. Blegen.

Typed transcription of the journal of Wisconsin's first Norwegian settler, describing his immigration in 1837, his role in Ole Rynning's Beaver Creek settlement (Illinois), and his 1838 move to Wisconsin. The journal's 1839 publication in Norway helped promote further emigration. In Norwegian.

ArchivalResource: 27 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122509048 View

Graduate School records, 1893-2005

Title: Graduate School records 1893-2005

Collection contains the records of the Graduate School at the University of Minnesota.

ArchivalResource: 56 boxes; (72 linear feet)

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Collection pertaining to Norwegian emigration, 1837-1929.

Title: Collection pertaining to Norwegian emigration, 1837-1929.

Correspondence, report on Norwegian emigration (1845-1929), and printed material. Includes letters from Norwegian emigrants in America to family and friends in Norway collected by Theodore C. Blegen and John J. Moseng.

ArchivalResource: 750 items.2 containers.2 microfilm reels.0.8 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71070788 View

University of Minnesota. Dept. of Surgery. Papers of the University of Minnesota Department of Surgery, 1927-1968.

Title: Papers of the University of Minnesota Department of Surgery, 1927-1968.

The collections of primarily correspondence files were compiled during the period when Owen Harding Wangensteen was head of the Department of Surgery, 1941-1967. During Wangensteen's administration, advances were made in cancer treatment, open heart surgery, and treatment of stomach ulcers. The collection also documents Wangensteen's fund raising efforts for support of Base Hospital 26 during World War II, construction of Diehl Hall, building the book and journal collections for the Bio-Medical Library, History of Medicine Professorship, and providing funding to build the Wangensteen Library of the History of Medicine.

ArchivalResource: 36 record boxes (1041 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62695894 View

Conference of State Historical Agencies of the Upper Mississippi Valley. Conference records, 1915-1937.

Title: Conference records, 1915-1937.

Correspondence, financial statements, and reports on the work of Newton D. Mereness in preparing a calendar of federal documents pertaining to the upper Mississippi Valley. The conference, which financed and directed the project, was composed of historical agencies in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523150 View

Blegen, Theodore Christian, 1891-1969. Knute Nelson as United States senator from Minnesota.

Title: Knute Nelson as United States senator from Minnesota. [1923]

ArchivalResource: 13 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10553710 View

Anderson, William, 1888-1975,. Minnesota political party platforms: 1849-1942 / comp. by William Anderson and Theodore C. Blegen, [ca. 1933-1964].

Title: Minnesota political party platforms: 1849-1942 / comp. by William Anderson and Theodore C. Blegen, [ca. 1933-1964].

Typed copies of platforms and resolutions of major and minor political parties adopted at conventions in Minnesota, compiled as the result of a University of Minnesota project carried out with the help of graduate assistants Sarah Davidson (now Wangensteen) and Roger Shumate. A descriptive text accompanies the copies. Project working papers (1936-1964) include correspondence about the location and acquisition of the material, research notes and draft for the descriptive text, and several printed platforms and resolutions.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 cu. ft. (3 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474078 View