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Thorvald Kofoed is one of those interviewed for the New Land, New Lives: Oral History Collection at Pacific Lutheran University.

Thorvald (Ted) Kofoed as a fifteen-year-old farmworker. Kofoed is one of those interviewed for the New Land, New Lives: Oral History Collection at Pacific Lutheran University.

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Bertha Sylliaasen is one of those interviewed for the New Land, New Lives: Oral History Collection at Pacific Lutheran University.

Anna Haugen is one of those interviewed for the New Land, New Lives: Oral History Collection at Pacific Lutheran University.

Anna Haugen is one of those interviewed for the New Land, New Lives: Oral History Collection at Pacific Lutheran University.

Torvald Opsal and his bride Oleda Christopherson on their wedding day, March 4, 1939. Torvald is one of those interviewed for the New Land, New Lives: Oral History Collection at Pacific Lutheran University.

Torvald Opsal is seen with another man in a boat in Alaska in 1930. Opsal, a fisherman for many years, is one of those interviewed for the New Land, New Lives: Oral History Collection at Pacific Lutheran University.

Torvald Opsal and others pose for a group photograph in 1930. Opsal was a fisherman in Alaska until 1950, and in the off-seasons worked in a plywood factory. He is one of those interviewed for the New Land, New Lives: Oral History Collection at Pacific Lutheran University.

From the collection of Torvald Opsal, this picture, dated 1929, shows the "Stavangerfjord," the ship on which Opsal crossed the Atlantic to come to the United States at the age of eighteen. Torvald Opsal is one of those interviewed for the New Land, New Lives: Oral History Collection at Pacific Lutheran University.