Ralph Strom Oral History 1982.

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Ralph Strom Oral History 1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184845354

The interview was conducted with Ralph Strom on April 23, 1982 in Seattle, Washington. This interview contains information on personal background, emigration, employment, family, church and community life, a connection with author Kathryn Winslow, and Swedish heritage. It also provides photographs of Ralph Strom's home in Sweden, Ralph as a young man (Christmas 1912), Ralph with the Lake McMurray logging crew (1913), Ralph and his wife Edith (1922), and Ralph at the time of the interview. The interview was conducted in English.

3 file folders, 6 photographs, 1 sound cassette, 0 compact discs..

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