Foss Hjarne Oral History Interview 1982.

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Foss Hjarne Oral History Interview 1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183318660

This interview was conducted with Hjarne Foss on October 20, 1982 in Seattle, Washington. It contains information on family background, employment, emigration, marriage and family, and return trips to Denmark. The interview also includes photographs of the Foss family in 1902, Hjarne in 1911, the Foss family in 1912, Hjarne with his sisters in 1918 or 1919, a business card from H.B. Foss Electric Shop in Solvang, California, and Hjarne at the time of the interview. Also see Laura Foss.

1 sound cassette.

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Foss, Carl Peter.

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Christensen, Birthe.

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Foss, Hjarne.

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Hjarne Foss was born on August 29, 1897 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His parents were Carl Peter Foss and Berthe Johanna Christensen, and Hjarne had five siblings: Carl Arnold, Oda, Rigmor, Svend, and Edle. All of the children were baptized and confirmed, but the family did not attend church often. After Hjarne's confirmation in 1911, he got an apprenticeship at an electrical contracting firm, where he learned the trade for five years and then joined the union and stayed at the same company for anoth...

Pohls, Theresa.

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Foss, Helen.

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Christiansen, Laura

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Danish Club (Enumclaw, Wash.)

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Danish Brotherhood (Solvang, Calif.)

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