Archival Resources at NAHA
Norse-American Centennial Digital Collections
Coming soon! Explore correspondence, minutes, reports, clippings, photographs, and more of the 1925 Centennial Celebration. Funding to digitize a portion of the Norse-American Centennial papers provided to the Norwegian-American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008.Other NAHA Archival Collections
The archives are home to an extensive manuscript collection that includes letters, diaries, journals and ledgers, newspaper clippings, obituaries, congregational records, family and local histories, and other resources related to Norwegians in America. The collection also includes photographs illustrating many aspects of Norwegian-American history.Collections about the Centennial, people involved, or to ideas brought up in the exhibit include, but not limited to:
- Norse-American Centennial papers, 1923-1927
- Foreign Language Information Service (Norwegian Bureau) reports, 1925-1931
- Carl O. Pedersen papers, 1919-1949
- Norse American Centennial Daughters of St. Paul papers, 1922-1994
- Josephine Brack papers, 1907-1987
- Berthe C. Petersen papers, 1927-1975
- Bygdelagene papers
- Gustav Marius Bruce papers, 1879-1963
- Waldemar Ager papers, 1874-1943