Sara Nilsen Vanderbilt OralHistory Interview 1981

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Sara Nilsen Vanderbilt OralHistory Interview 1981

An oral history interview with Sara NilsenVanderbilt, a Norwegian immigrant.

3 file folders; 7 photographs; 1 sound cassette

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6373371

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Stavangerfjord (Steamship)

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Foss, Andrew

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Normanna Hall (Tacoma, Wash.)

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Moxness, Gunvor

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Vanderbilt family

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Moxness family

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Emmanuel Lutheran Church (Tacoma, Wash.)

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Emmanuel Lutheran organized on July 21, 1913. The Ladies’ Aid had organized the previous January. The first church was erected and ready for use by May of 1914. A new building was erected in 1948, and dedicated November 28. The physical plant was tripled in size in 1962 with the addition of a much larger sanctuary, offices, Christian Education facilities, and a fellowship hall. From the guide to the Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tacoma, Washington, Records, 1913-2012, (Pacific Lutheran U...

Vanderbilt, John

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Nilsen, Marcluis

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Dempsey, John

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Foss, Thea Christiansen, 1857-1927

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Russell, Julianne (Nilsen)

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Moxness, Sara Petrine Kristensen.

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Kristensen family

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Goddard, Delores (Nilsen)

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Sons of Norway (U.S.) Norden Lodge No. 2 (Tacoma, Wash.)

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Røskaft family

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Nilsen family

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Vanderbilt, Elizabeth

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Moxness, Olav

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Nilsen, John Olav

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Vanderbilt, Sara

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Sara Vanderbilt was born on July 9, 1905 in Trondheim, Norway to Olav Moxness and Sara Petrine Kristensen Moxness. Olav worked on a ship and died at sea during World War I. There were five other children in the family, and they lived in a big apartment near the high school in Trondheim, renting out rooms to students. Sara's sister Gunvor went to America years before Sara emigrated and worked for Andrew Foss at Foss' boathouse in Tacoma, WA. In August 1923, Andrew Foss sent Sara a ti...