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Scandinavian Immigrant Experience Collection
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Frederickson, Frederick
Frederickson, Frederick
SIE 2-4-t169 · 1982-05-10
Part of New Land, New Lives Oral History Collection

This interview was conducted with Frederick Fredericksen on May 10, 1982 in Poulsbo, WA. It contains information about family background, sharecropping in Norway, emigration, school, work, marriage, and Norwegian heritage. The interview was conducted in English.

Folder Contents

Box 8, File 3 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background and Tape Index

Box 8, File 3A Correspondence and Forms
Checklists and Release Form
Letters from Janet Rasmussen regarding Mr. Fredericksen’s participation.
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background
Fredricksen, Sam
Fredricksen, Sam
SIE 2-1-t218 · 1983-01-10
Part of New Land, New Lives Oral History Collection

This interview was conducted with Sam Fredricksen on January 10, 1983 in Seattle, Washington. It contains information on family background, marriage, emigration, occupation, and Danish heritage. The interview also includes two photographs of Sam at the time of the interview. The interview was conducted in English.

Folder Contents

Box 10, File 5 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background and Tape Index

Box 10, File 5A Correspondence and Forms
Checklist and Release Form
Thank you letter from Mrs. Fredricksen
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

Box 10, File 5B Photographs
Two photographs
Fredrickson, Hans
Fredrickson, Hans
SIE 2-5-t092_t093 · 1981-09-30
Part of New Land, New Lives Oral History Collection

The interview was conducted with Hans Fredrickson on September 30, 1981 in Tacoma, Washington. This interview contains information on personal background, emigration, settling in, work, family, Swedish heritage, church and community life, and trips back to Sweden. Also available are photographs of Hans at the time of the interview, Hans and his family at his childhood home in Småland, Sweden, Hans and other young men immigrating to America (February 22, 1928), Hans as a concrete worker in Villa Park, Illinois (May 23, 1929), Hans working on threshing crew in the Midwest (July 3, 1929), and harvest work in Småland, Sweden (July 31, 1936). The interview was conducted in English.

Also see Sven Fredrickson.

Folder Contents

Box 4, File 12 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background, and Tape Index

Box 4, File 12A Correspondence and Forms
Release Form
Letters from Janet Rasmussen regarding Mr. Fredrickson’s participation.
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

Box 4, File 12B Photographs
Nine photographs
Fredrickson, Sven
Fredrickson, Sven
SIE 2-5-t119 · 1981-11-30
Part of New Land, New Lives Oral History Collection

The interview was conducted with Sven Fredrickson on November 30, 1981 in Tacoma, Washington. This interview contains information on personal history, employment, emigration, family, the Army, church and community life, and Swedish heritage. It also provides photographs of the house where Sven was born, Sven and his family, Sven and an Iranian mountaineer, Sven building a courthouse in Oklahoma City, and Sven at the time of the interview. The interview was conducted in English.

Also see Hans Fredrickson.

Folder Contents

Box 5, File 15 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background, and Tape Index

Box 5, File 15A Correspondence and Forms
Release Form
Letters from Janet Rasmussen regarding Mr. Fredrickson’s participation.
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

Box 5, File 15B Photographs
Six photographs
Fridtjof Nansen Papers
SIE 4-77 · 1930-1941
Part of Manuscript Collection

Contains a bound book of newspaper clippings about Fridtjof Nansen collected by Martin Ulvestad. While most of the articles are obituaries and various recollections of aspects of Fridtjof Nansen in light of his death, some are reprints of earlier articles detailing his explorations, the opinions of Nansen of such famous Norwegians contemporaries as Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and expedition companion Captain Sverdrup, and the causes Nansen championed. Most articles are written in Norwegian, and the rest, taken from the American and British press, are written in English; all are the original newspaper clippings pasted into a scrapbook format. These articles include obituaries from several national and international newspapers, reprinted articles from his 1922 Nobel Peace Prize recognition, interviews by people who knew Nansen, a 1926 article written by Nansen as well as a 1922 interview about starvation and poverty in post-revolution Russia and Eastern Europe and war-torn Greece, a telegram from King Haakon VII printed in a newspaper, other photographs and articles documenting his work as well as the establishment of his library after his death, poems by Nordahl Grieg and Hernia Janise, and photographs and pictures from his 17 May 1930 funeral.
G. and Klara Holmqvist Correspondence
SIE 4-91 · 1870-02-09
Part of Manuscript Collection

Consists of a photocopy of a letter and a typed English translation. The letter is from G. and Klara Holmquist to Klara’s sister and husband dated 9 February 1870 from Woodhull, Wisconsin. The letter says the family is in good health but they just survived a harsh winter, and discusses a family friend and sundry other things.
Gabriel Aanensen Fedde Autobiography
SIE 4-195 · 1912-1914
Part of Manuscript Collection

An 85 page autobiography written by Gabriel Aanensen Fedde and translated and annotated by his grandson, Gabriel Bernhard Fedde. Fedde discusses his childhood in Norway, his schooling and helping his father out with work. He also discusses his faith and conversion experience and his studies at seminary and teaching jobs. The manuscript includes portions of Gabriel’s journal from his sailing days. He discusses his life in New York as a businessman. Other chapters include information about Norwegian Church life in Brooklyn, a discussion of the Separatists and Perfectionists movements in New York, breaks with the Synod Pastor, struggles with the Labor Unions, Norwegian deaconness activity in Brooklyn, and an epilogue by Gabriel’s grandson, Gabriel Bernhard Fedde. There is also information from the register of the ships Syria and Kepha that Gabriel was on and information about the city of Fedde, Norway.