Olaf Carl Seltzer papers

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Olaf Carl Seltzer papers

1926-1935

Ca. 75 illustrated letters to Dr. Philip G. Cole from Seltzer.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6700540

Archives of American Art

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Cole, Philip C., 1890-1940.

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Seltzer, O. C. (Olaf C.), 1877-1957

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Olaf Carl Seltzer was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 25, 1877, the son of Carl adnd Julia (Neilsen) Seltzer. While still in his teens, he studied at the Technical Institute of Copenhagen. After the death of his father in 1892 he came to the United States with his mother and settled in Great Falls, Montana, in 1892. He worked as a ranch hand for the next year. He then worked as a machinist for the Great Northern Railroad; the Butte, Anaconda, and Pacific; a railroad at Lethbridge, Alberta;...