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This artifact is in a bound book with copies of type-written biographies followed by photocopies of personal documents in both English and Norwegian, and obituaries, photographs, news articles, and other documents pertaining to the family history.There is also an inventory of family antiques in the Otheim home as of 1972, and descriptions of the origins of certain family heirlooms. While most of the history pertains to the Otbragde family since the mid 17th Century, in the back there is a longer genelogical chart that dates back to 1250 and traces the lineage of Tallak Ulvsson Brokka.

Contains the autobiography of Oscar Rolander and his journey to the United States as well as the life he lived growing up in the United States.

A 31 page article written by Oscar Brown. Oscar Brown wrote a book about the story of Little Diomede Island and the different missionaries that went to speak to the Eskimos there and in Siberia.

Minutes, 1920-1926, in volume begun by Temperance Society of Swedish-Finns, Mt. Tacoma, #61.

Consists of eight documents. The emigration parish papers (Flyttningsbevis) for Lars Johnson and his wife Karin Eklof, records of naturalization for Olof Johnson dated 1886 and for Lars Johnson dated 1889, tax statements for Olof Johnson for the year 1892 in King County, Washington.

A one-page biography of Ole Shuros who immigrated from Norway and spent most of his life in Alaska. The biography was written in the Eagles Fairbanks Newsletter

Contains three folders. The first folder contains: A newspaper add in the Washington Post for 1 June 1939 for Kristoferson’s Dairy greeting Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway to Seattle, A clipping dated about 1928 about Blindheim’s dairy winning first prize in a contest, A clipping dated 15 April 1941 entitled “Norwegian Ship Engineer Flies Here for Visit After 33 Years” about Anton and Ole Blindheim, brothers, reuniting after thirty-two years, A clipping with a picture advertising a performance by Ole and his grandson, Dale, at the Tacoma YMCA. The second folder contains early snapshots: Ole as a child, Ole’s mother circa 1910, Ole’s grandparents Mikal and Gunhild Blindheim (Ole’s father’s father from Nordfjord), Ole’s father Rasmus Mikelsen and his third wife, Ole and Anna Blindheim’s wedding picture from 1919, Ole and Nick in Alaska about 1909, Ole in 1909 during the Alaska Yukon Exposition, Ole wearing a cowboy hat with a group of men in front of Smyser’s Hotel in Chatanika 1910, Nick and Ole in the mines, two pictures of the Ester Creek mine shaft, Blindheim family in front of the old homestead, Anna and Ole with Agnetta and Alvin about 1938, mining pictures, picture of a stainless steel truck trailer for taking milk from Sequim to Seattle by ferry daily about 1946, picture of John Peterson, Gus Carlson, Walter Barton, and manager Ole Blindheim in front of La Villa Dairy, Nick and Ole Blindheim in Fairbanks, Ole on Blueberry Hill. The third folder contains more recent, color snapshots: Five pictures from Blueberry Hill Farm in Bothell, Washington about 1965, three pictures of the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church Christmas Pageant from 1984, 1985, and 1986, ten pictures of Ole, three large pictures of Ole playing harmonica at the Northwest Folklife festival in 1989. The photographs mostly have labels on the back with greater detail.