Clara Oleva Josepha Nilsen Heintzelman Greene Oral History Interview 1982.

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Clara Oleva Josepha Nilsen Heintzelman Greene Oral History Interview 1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183014053

This interview was conducted with Clara Greene on March 25, 1982 in Tacoma, Washington. It provides information about her family background, emigration, settling in, schooling, work, marriage and family, and Norwegian heritage. The interview also contains an article on her father, Ole Mathias Nilsen, from a Norwegian publication, an article on Clara from Nordlandsposten, and three photographs of Clara at the time of the interview. The interview was conducted in English.

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