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Olsen, Hilda
SIE 2-4-t018 · 1979-04-06
Part of New Land, New Lives Oral History Collection

This interview was conducted with Hilda Olsen on April 6, 1979 in Tacoma, Washington. It contains information on family background, emigration, settling in, marriage and family, community activities, and Norwegian heritage. The interview was conducted in English.


Folder Contents

Box 1, File 17 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Tape Index, and Family Background

Box 1, File 17A Correspondence and Forms
Checklist and Release Form
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

Olof and Lars Johnson
SIE 4-48 · 1886-1892
Part of Manuscript Collection

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.

Oliver, Kole
SIE 2-4-t227_t228 · 1983-01-30
Part of New Land, New Lives Oral History Collection

This interview was conducted with Kole Oliver on January 30, 1983 in Kent, Washington. It contains information on family background, emigration, work, marriage and family, community activities, and Norwegian heritage. The interview was conducted in English.


Folder Contents

Box 10, File 14 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background and Tape Index

Box 10, File 14A Correspondence and Forms
Checklist and Release Form
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

Ole Shuros Biography
SIE 4-216 · undated
Part of Manuscript Collection

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

Ole R. Blindheim
SIE 4-264 · 1877-1986
Part of Manuscript Collection

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.

Ole Overlie Family History
SIE 4-64 · 1990
Part of Manuscript Collection

This document begins with one page on an English to Norwegian computer translation program developed by Don Hundven. The rest of the document is a family genealogy and history beginning with Marit and Ole Overlie. Each of their nine children and their spouses, children, and children’s children are discussed. Marit and Ole had thirty-five grandchildren. There is also information about Marit’s family, the Andrew Halvorsen Family and the Halvorsen quadruplets. There is a transcript of a news clipping about the fifty year anniversary of Ole and Marit Overlie. Finally, there is a history of Martin Kristian Hundvin (the father of the author of this manuscript) and descendants.

Ole Nilsen Hegna Papers
SIE 4-210 · 1840-1916
Part of Manuscript Collection

"My journey to America and reminiscences of the Civil War" by Ole Nilson Hegna includes a 5 page typed document and 3 handwritten notes concerning the Civil War and the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment.

Ole G. Slind Papers
SIE 4-49 · 1920-1922
Part of Manuscript Collection

Consists of Norwegian contracts from the sale of property belonging to Ole Slind before the family immigrated to Minnesota. The deed to his farm in Norway and selling papers are included. The materials are in Norwegian.

Contract between Thomas Angells Stiftelser (seller) and Kari Olsdatter Slind (buyer) regarding sale of the property Slindan Nordre, Gnr. 141, bnr. 2 from October 21, 1920. (3 pages, some handwritten).
Skylddelingsforretning (survey) of the farm Slind, Gnr. Bnr. 1 performed on September 16, 1920 (6 pages, some handwritten).
Report from Thomas Angells Stiftelser regarding the results of the survey of September 16, 1920, and how the farm Slind now is divided into 22 different places (33 pages).
Conveyance between Thomas Angell’s Stiftelser (seller) and Kari Olsdatter Slind (buyer) regarding sale of the property Slind Nedre Gnr. 143, bnr. 9 of October 19, 1921 (1 page).
Receipt regarding payment for the property Slind Nedre; date October 21, 1921 (1 page, some handwritten).
Contract with comments between Kari Olsdatter Slind (seller) and Ole Gundersen Slind Jr. (buyer) regarding the sale of the property Slind Nedre Gnr. 143, bnr. 9 (2 pages handwritten contract and 2 pages typewritten comments).
Conveyance regarding the property Slind Nedre, as decided in previous contract. Announced on February 10, 1922 (1 page).
Contract with comments between Ole Gundersen Slind (seller) and Jørgen Olsen Klegseth (buyer) regarding the sale of the property Kjøsnes søndre Gnr. 157, bnr. 2 (2 pages).

Ole Bull Papers
SIE 4-30 · 1929-1962
Part of Manuscript Collection

Consists of a leaflet written by Norman B. Wilkinson and published by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 1962 and several Norwegian newspaper article written about Bull dating from 1929 to 1956. The leaflet contains information on Ole Bull’s music and compositions, emigration and colonization, and political activities.

Ole Bakken Autobiography
SIE 4-18 · 1924-1990
Part of Manuscript Collection

Consists of the autobiography of Ole Bakken, which he wrote in 1990 and dedicated to his grandchildren. The story covers his life in America after his parents and he emigrated from Norway in 1926.