Signe M. Clausen Marton family history, 1890-2008

Signe M. Clausen Marton family history, 1890-2008

NAHA 2019/873

1890-2008

Clausen emigrated from Norway in1923, and settled in Illinois. Her brother, Morton, served as Editor andPublisher for the Hamilton Press in Hamilton, Illinois. In 1971, Clausenvisited Norway (transcribed letters included) for the first time in 48 years. Scanned photographs saved to CD and printed.

Includes:

• 40+ letters exchanged with family members in Norway (1971-1984).
• (Alden W. Clausen, President of Bank of America).
• postcards: Somers, Montana; boat excursion at FlatheadLake, Montana; winter logging with sled; exterior and interior postcards ofNorwegian Lutheran Church, Somers, Montana.
• postcards: GreatNorthern Railroad over Flathead River at Coram, Montana; Christmas;Thanksgiving; Hudson River from West Point Battery; Boating by Moonlighton the Missouri River near Great Falls, Montana; Mauritania Cunard Liner;romantic; Statue of Liberty; winter scenery; Daughters and Sons of NorwayHall, Seattle, Washington; Rapid City, South Dakota American Legion paradeheld in Omaha, Nebraska (Bison pulling float); real photos of familymembers: man standing with fishing pole and 22 fish.
• A Journey to a Beloved Country (2015, Received electronically and subsequently printed).
• Excerpted letters written during the summer of 1971 while revisitingNorway for the first time since emigrating in 1923 from Bo, Nordland, Norway.

Location:
12/A/8

0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box)

English

Correspondence

Photographs

CDs