Sara Nilsen Vanderbilt Oral History Interview 1981.

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Sara Nilsen Vanderbilt Oral History Interview 1981.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/184905032

This interview was conducted with Sara Vanderbilt on November 7, 1981. It contains information on family background, emigration, employment, marriage and family, community activities, and Norwegian heritage. The interview also provides photographs of Sara and Captain Jorgens, Sara at a logging camp, Sara and Thea Foss, Sara at age eighteen, and Sara at the time of the interview. Also see Bergliot DeRosa, t102 & 103. The interview was conducted in English.

1 sound cassette.

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