The interview was conducted with Gunhild Sather on October 6, 1982 in Seattle, Washington. It contains information on family background, childhood, emigration, work, marriage, and community activities. The interview also provides photographs of Gunhild's home in Kvingedal, Norway, Gunhild as a young woman, Gunhild in traditional Scandinavian dress (1933), and Gunhild in her later years. The interview was conducted in English.
Folder Contents
Box 9, File 2 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background and Tape Index
Box 9, File 2A Correspondence and Forms
Checklists and Release Form
Letters from Janet Rasmussen regarding Mrs. Sather’s participation.
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background
Box 9, File 2B Photographs
Six photographs
This interview was conducted with Sivert Saure on June 17, 1984 in Bjørke, Norway. It contains information about family background, emigration, work, re-emigration to Norway, and further contact with America. The interview was conducted in Norwegian and is not fully translated. Also available are a photograph of Sivert as a young man and a photograph of Sivert at the time of the interview.
Folder Contents
Box 11, File 22 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background and Tape Index
Box 11, File 22A Correspondence and Forms
Checklist and Release Form
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background
Box 11, File 22B Photographs
Two photographs
Information about some of the Scandinavian Lodges and also declared Scandinavian Day along with newspaper clippings and the pages of a scrapbook.
CDs from the Swedish Immigration Jubilee, Program for the Pacific Coast Norway Chorus, Swingin' Swedish Schottisches and Waltzes album, Swedish album, "That Old Norwegian Song and Dance" CD, article "A Singing Church" by Paul Maurice Glasoe, and an article on "The Fiddler from Romsdal" by Jim Erickson.
Contains one booklet of papers relating to the Scandinavian Presence in US sent out to the participants of the coming Scanpresence II conference. The Scanpresence (Scandinavian Presence in America) conference was first held in 1973, to discuss the presence of Scandinavian organizations, institutions, and interests in the US, as a way of preserving these cultures.