Alf Lowell Løvoll Oral History Interview 1984.

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Alf Lowell Løvoll Oral History Interview 1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/182761344

The interview was conducted with Alf Løvoll in Volda, Norway on June 14, 1984. The interview contains information on Alf's family background, whaling, emigration, settling in and working, return to Norway, and American customs and contacts. This interview was conducted in Norwegian. The tape has been partially translated. Also available is a black and white photograph of Alf and his wife at the time of the interview. Also see Astrid Løvoll.

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Løvoll, Alf.

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Løvoll, Martin.

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Bjørlykke, Dorte Knutsdatter.

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Lowell, Alf.

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Løvoll, Astrid Aase.

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Astrid Aase Løvoll was born in 1907 in Liasgard, Volda, Norway. Her parents were Odin Kornelius Gjerder Aase and Anne Severine Sivertsdatter Liaskar, and there were five children in the family: Borghild, Astrid, Sigrid, Jenny, and Sigvald. She married Alf Løvoll, who was born in Koparnes, Norway, and had three children: Magnar, Odd, and Svanhild. All of the children were born in Bjoerlykke, Norway. From the description of Astrid Aase Løvoll Oral History Interview 1984. (Eugene Public...

Løvoll, Svanhild.

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Sons of Norway (U.S.) Svalbard Lodge No. 2-33 (Juneau, Alaska)

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Løvoll, Anne Olsdatter.

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Løvoll, Magnar.

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Sons of Norway (U.S.) Leif Erikson Lodge No. 1 (Seattle, Wash.)

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Olsson, Bent.

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Lowell, John Amory, 1798-1881

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Bjørlykke, Birta.

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Lovoll, Alf Lowell.

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Alf Løvoll was born on October 9, 1901 on a farm in Koparnes, Søvde, on the West Coast of Norway. His parents were Martin Løvoll and Birta Bjørlykke, and there were ten children in the family. Alf was the oldest son, but he left home and became a fisherman. He emigrated in 1920 with an aunt and an uncle, John Lowell, who owned a fishing boat and fished in Alaska. Alf worked with this uncle in Alaska and also was a whaler in the Antarctic with the Union Whaling Company of South Africa; his job wa...

Løvoll, Odd.

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