Decorah-Posten Og Ved Arnen (Decorah, Iowa)
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2,207 issues from 1903 to 1924, published in Decorah, Iowa, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Decorah-Posten was one of the longest-running foreign-language newspapers in the state of Iowa and one of the largest Norwegian newspapers in the nation. It was established in 1874 by Brynild Anundsen, and he continued to publish for nearly a century. Decorah, located in Winneshiek County in northeast Iowa, became a center of Norwegian-American culture after large numbers of Norwegian immigrants began settling there in the 1850s.
Brynild Anundsen was born in Skien, Norway, on December 29, 1844, and had little formal education during his early years. At age 20, he left Norway for North America, arriving first in Quebec in April 1864. Anundsen soon moved to Milwaukee before finally settling in La Crosse, Wisconsin. In 1865, he married Mathilde Hoffstrom and the following year they purchased a small printing press and began publishing a Norwegian literary magazine called Ved Arnen (By the Hearth). In 1867, Anundsen was offered a new job as a printer for the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church, so he and his wife moved to Decorah, Iowa.
Anundsen’s first foray into newspaper publishing came in 1870, when he started Fra Fjærnt og Nær (From Far and Near). The paper was short-lived, but Anundsen’s second attempt led to greater success when he launched the Decorah-Posten on September 18, 1874. The Decorah-Posten was strictly nonpartisan and focused on local news as well as items of interest from Norway and Norwegian and Danish communities around the United…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Decorah, Iowa, United States
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress