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Stavanger (Norway)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Guide to the Gulbrand Gulbrandsen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_112
Abstract

A handwritten certification of Norwegian citizenship issued by city judge Halvor Olaus Christensen of Stavanger, Norway to Gulbrand Gulbrandsen.

Dates: 1877

Guide to K. Berge Diary

 Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_198
Abstract

The diary of K. Berge written around 1874 - 1884, with four other contributing writers, including Edv. Larsen and John Lie.

Dates: 1892-1894

John Johnson, Private, 15th Wisconsin Regiment Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OPVSIE_mss229
Abstract An American Manifesto by Norwegian Immigrants introduction by Sigurd Bernhard Hustvedt: introduction to a letter written by John (Johannes) Johnson (Johannesen). The letter itself is called “An Account of Conditions in North America”, and talks about the struggles the Norwegian immigrants had as they arrived in the U.S. To Find a Better Destiny by Gene Estensen is about the immigration of Norway to the U.S., focused on immigrants from Telemark, Norway, and the family from the Lurås-Rue...
Dates: 2000

Guide to Kvekerne i Stavanger og Ryfylke

 Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss247
Abstract

The Emmigration Festival in Norway 1986 booklet about the Quakers in Norway, especially from Stavanger and Ryfylke. Who traveled, who stayed behind, general information about the emmigration, in addition to special informations about the Quaker emigration.

Dates: 1986

Guide to the Lorents Osa Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_283
Abstract

The correspondence, calendars, maps, yearbooks, and other personal papers belonging to Lorents Osa and his wife Christine Huglen.

Dates: 1910-1983

Guide to the Janet Rasmussen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OPVSIEmss_292
Abstract

Documents gathered by Janet Rasmussen, a professor of Scandinavian Studies at PLU. Many of the documents are related to the oral history project "New Land, New Lives".

Dates: 1847-2004

Guide to the Rogaland Stevne Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OPSVIEmss_122
Abstract

Materials about the hundred year celebration of immigration from Stavanger, dating from between 1919 and 1941. Booklets with songs, a program, and news clippings with songs or stories about the celebration.

Dates: 1919 - 1941