Norwegian-American Servicemen in World War I collection, 1914-1918

Title

Norwegian-American Servicemen in World War I collection, 1914-1918

Identifier

P1711

Date

1914-1918

Description

Encompassing collection that includes monographs, clippings, correspondence, photographs, memoirs and other ephemera illustrating Norwegian-Americans service during World War I.
  • Letters from a Sailor: America at War 1917-1918 by Daniel E. Lee, 2011
    • Based on eighty-five letters written by Conrad Lyman Ostroot, navy enlistee from Moscow, Idaho
  • Article by Robert M. Pendleton, In Memory of the Norwegian-American Casualties Lost in the Sinking of the United States Coast Guard Cutter U.S.S. Tampa, Thursday, September 26, 1918
  • Photograph prints
  • Letter from Alfred Bjorgen to family in Rothsay, Minnesota from France, May 10, 1919
  • Postcard from Magnus Bjorgen 
  • Scandinavia in the First World War: Studies in the War Experience of the Northern Neutrals edited by Claes Ahlund, 2013
  • Audes-Anderson documents:
    • Certified copy of marriage between Ada Juliet Anderson and John Audes, May 2, 1938
    • Confirmation certificate for Ada J. Anderson, June 17, 1906
    • John Audes honorable discharge from the United States Army, June 14, 1919
    • John Audes Certificate of Naturalization, June 7, 1918.
  • Private John Fredrickson by Pauline Schreiber, 2018

Extent

0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box)

Subject

World War I

Type

Clippings
Correspondence
Photographs

Citation

“Norwegian-American Servicemen in World War I collection, 1914-1918,” Norwegian-American Historical Association, accessed May 8, 2024, https://naha.omeka.net/items/show/1611.