Norwegian Local and Regional History Sources
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Local Sources
- Norwegian Local History Manuscripts (Click on "KILDENE")
- Full text manuscripts selected as part of an online course in reading Gothic script.
- Digitized by the history faculty at the University of Bergen.
- (1594-1878; manuscript facsimiles)
- Searchable database of local photographs.
- (Images & commentary)
- One year of assorted diary entries and personal testimonies
- from the year the constitutional convention was held in Eidsvoll.
- (January-December 1814; transcriptions)
- from Evidence! Europe Reflected in Archives
- (facsimiles and English summaries)
- The Bergen fire of 1701 in documents, maps and images.
- (19 May 1702; facsimiles & commentary)
- Outstanding documents of the month from 1996 to the present
- digitized from the holdings of Bergen University Library's Special Collections.
- (Annotated facsimiles and transcriptions)
- Bergen's central role in discovery of the leprosy bacillus
- and treatment of "Hansen's disease" is documented.
- (Facsimiles, images and databases)
- Slik bodde vi ("This is the way we lived...")
- Documentation of the history of housing in Bergen.
- (Images, facsimiles & transcriptions)
- Holmestrand før og nå ("Holmestrand Then and Now")
- Local images of Holmestrand juxtaposing specific locations
- as seen between the late 19th/early 20th century and now.
- (Images)
- One of a number of searchable databases of selected virtual exhibits from Oslo City Archives.
- (Images, maps, facsimiles)
- Portraits of local Osterøy residents from the period of the First World War,
- Used for border identification purposes.
- (1914-1918; images)
- Formally lodged with the Danish chancellery.
- (1704; transcription).
Regional Sources
- (Facsimiles).
- Historical drawings of Norway, by region and locality.
- (1853/1855; facsimile illustrations)
- (1789; transcription excerpt)
- Digital archive of the Barony of Rosendal in Sunnhordland (Hordaland),
- Documenting the estate domain and its history.
- (1641-1908; facsimiles & commentary)
- ("This is the way we lived in Trondheim and Central Norway...")
- Documentation of the history of housing conditions
- in the area around Trondheim (Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag).
- (Images, facsimiles & transcriptions)
- Vital statistical databases for the region of Sogn og Fjordane.
- -- Everything from emigrants to images --
- (Images, statistical figures & transcriptions)
- ("This is the way we lived in Trondheim and Central Norway...")
- Documentation of the history of housing conditions
- in the area around Trondheim (Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag).
- (Images, facsimiles & transcriptions)
- Pictorial databases for the region of Østfold.
- (Images)
- Documenting the forced evacuations in the far north during the German occupation.
- (1944; images, facsimiles, sound recordings & commentary)
- Photos of Gustaf Hallström (1880-1962) from early 20th century research trips.
- Cultural history vignettes from northern Sweden and Norway.
- Posted by the university library of Umeå (Sweden).
- (1907-1926; Photo facsimiles and diary transcriptions.)
- Maps of the North Atlantic from "Vinland" to Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Denmark.
- Digitized by the Danish Royal Library together with the Grønlandsbeskrivelse.
- (1570; facsimiles)
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