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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

This interview was conducted with Ida Apalseth on May 14, 1979 and focuses on the Daughters of Norway, including the Seattle lodge, the Tacoma lodge, early days of the organization, officers' duties, lodge activities, and scholarships.

Also see personal interview with Ida Apalseth.

Folder Contents

Box 1, File 30 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet and Tape Index

Box 1, File 30A Correspondence and Forms
Release Form
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

This interview was conducted with Mina Borresen on January 14, 1983 at the Foss Home in Seattle, Washington. It contains information about family background, emigration, work, marriage, community activities, and Norwegian heritage. Mina was almost 100 years old at the time of the interview. Also included are photographs of Mina in traditional Norwegian dress, Mina in Seattle, Mina and her husband, and Mina at the time of the interview. The interview was conducted in English.

Folder Contents

Box 10, File 7 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background and Tape Index

Box 10, File 7A Correspondence and Forms
Checklist and Release Form
Letters from Janet Rasmussen regarding Mrs. Borresen’s participation
Letter from Mrs. Borresen’s son, Ray thanking Janet Rasmussen for returning the pictures.
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

Box 10, File 7B Photographs
Six photographs

This interview was conducted with Dagny Shervheim and Alice Ericksen on April 28, 1979 in Seattle, Washington. Both women were members of the Daughters of Norway, and the interview contains information about the importance of the organization and their involvement with the Valkyrien Lodge in Seattle. The first portion of the interview is conducted with Dagny, followed by a portion with Alice. The interview was conducted in English.

Folder Contents

Box 1, File 27 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet and Tape Index

Box 1, File 27A Correspondence and Forms
Checklist and Release Form
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

This interview was conducted with Gerda Farestrand on May 20, 1982 in Portland, Oregon. It contains information on family background, work, WWI, immigration to Canada and the United States, marriage and family, community activities, and Norwegian heritage. The interview was conducted in English.

Folder Contents

Box 8, File 11 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background and Tape Index

Box 8, File 11A Correspondence and Forms
Checklist and Release Form
Letters from Janet Rasmussen regarding Mrs. Farestrand’s participation.
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

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

This interview was conducted with Clara Greene on March 25, 1982 in Tacoma, Washington. It provides information about her family background, emigration, settling in, schooling, work, marriage and family, and Norwegian heritage. The interview also contains an article on her father, Ole Mathias Nilsen, from a Norwegian publication, an article on Clara from Nordlandsposten, and three photographs of Clara at the time of the interview. The interview was conducted in English.

Folder Contents

Box 7, File 10 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background, and Tape Index

Box 7, File 10A Correspondence and Forms
Checklist and Release Form
Letter from Janet Rasmussen regarding Mrs. Greene’s participation.
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

Box 7, File 10B Photographs
Three photographs

This interview was conducted with Ben Grytnes on May 10, 1982 in Poulsbo, Washington. It contains information about family background, emigration, work, marriage and family, community activities, and Norwegian heritage. The interview was conducted in English.

Folder Contents

Box 8, File 4 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background and Tape Index

Box 8, File 4A Correspondence and Forms
Checklist and Release Form
Letters from Janet Rasmussen regarding Mr. Grytnes’ participation.
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

The interview was conducted with Martha Handeland on October 27, 1981 in Tacoma, Washington. This interview provides information on parents' life in Tacoma before moving back to Norway in 1920, family background, voyage to Norway, life and schooling in Norway, American-Norwegian Christmas traditions, household responsibilities, return trip to Canada and Seattle, life in Tacoma, marriage, children's lives, maintenance of Norwegian traditions. It also contains a photograph of Martha Handeland and a photograph of Martha and her husband Torvald. The interview was conducted in English with some Norwegian towards the end of the interview.

Also see Carl Tweiten, Anna Hopen, and Torvald Handeland.

Folder Contents

Box 5, File 4 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background, and Tape Index

Box 5, File 4A Correspondence and Forms
Release Form
Letters from Janet Rasmussen regarding Mr. and Mrs. Handeland’s participation.
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

Box 5, File 4B Photographs
Two photographs

The interview was conducted with Anton Hopen on November 2, 1981 in Tacoma, Washington. This interview provides information on family history, fishing and farming in Norway, childhood, school, work in Norway, reason for emigrating, voyage to America, train trip to Tacoma, work in U.S., Great Depression, fishing in U.S., citizenship, Norwegian organizations in Alaska, visits to Norway, and changes in Norwegian farming. The interview also contains photographs of Anton Hopen in Tokeen, Alaska, the marble quarry in Tokeen, Anton cutting marble, Anton and other quarry employees, Brunwald (the boat Anton fished on in Alaska), Anton's home in Svardal, Norway, and Anton and his wife Anna at the time of the interview. The interview was conducted in English. Also see Anna Hopen.

Folder Contents

Box 5, File 11 Personal and Family History
Tape Archive Sheet, Family Background, and Tape Index

Box 5, File 11A Correspondence and Forms
Release Form
Obituary for Anton Hopen
Handwritten Tape Archive Sheet and Family Background

Box 5, File 11B Photographs
Nine photographs