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Scandinavian Immigrant Experience Collection
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Akre, Elvin

Akre, Elvin

This interview was conducted with Elvin Akre on May 13, 1980 at his home on Lake Cushman. It contains information about family background, education, marriage, teaching at PLC, and receiving the Fulbright scholarship to teach in Norway. The interview also contains two articles about Elvin teaching in Norway and a 'Profiles From the Past' article from PLU's The Scene, 1979.

Folder Contents

Box 2, File 9 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background, and Tape Index

Box 2, File 9A Correspondence and Forms
Release Form
Letter from Janet Rasmussen thanking Mr. Akre for his participation.
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

Alaska Yukon Pioneers Newsletters

Newsletters from the Alaska Yukon Pioneers Cabin #1 from 1962. Contains several pages of one text document, and pictures of wooden totems. The newsletter talks about minutes, and the organizations member and their lives. Mentions members that passed away, the officers of the cabin, and some financial notes.

Alfred Johansson Papers

This document contains two pages of reminiscences and one page of information about the area, buildings, and owners of the St. Svenstorp home. A description of farm life in Sweden in the late 1800s as told by Alfred Johansson (born 1863). He recalls Christmas, St. Knut's Day (January 13) and St. Erik's Day (May 18), funeral customs, and accounts of various traditions and superstitions observed by people in rural Sweden. These included putting a snake into the cowshed for luck, and crossing the shafts of the ploughs, etc. used to work the fields in order to ward off witchcraft.

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