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Reminiscences from mining days in Alaska and the Yukon (1899-1902) and several poems by a Norwegian-born miner and dairyman. Nielsen emigrated in 1893 and lived in California.Digital Collections: Settlement in valley [near Dawson City, Northwest…

Biography of a Norwegian-born boarding-house operator and housewife written by two granddaughters. The story includes life in Norway before emigration, hardships at sea on a trip to Hawaii via Cape Horn, and making a living in Hawaii and California.

An article and correspondence concerning an estate "in Norwegian style" near Carmel, California, built 1918-1927 for Mrs. Maude Reynolds.Contents:Carmel Norwegian Lodge: Article and Correspondence

AbstractArticles from two Norwegian newspapers about Norwegians immigrating to California in the 1850s. One includes a letter from San Francisco.ContentsPhotograph, Johannes Iversen Eide, from Skogn, Norway, member of a gold digging expedition to…

Biography/History: Sønke Engelhart Sønnichsen (1878-1961) was born in Oslo, Norway to S.P. and Mathea Sonichsen. Sønnichsen was educated in Norway and Germany who immigrated in 1902. He was an architectural draftsman in Chicago, Seattle, and…