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                <text>Archival Collection</text>
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          <name>Identifier</name>
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              <text>P1711</text>
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              <text>Norwegian-American Servicemen in World War I collection, 1914-1918</text>
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              <text>Encompassing collection that includes monographs, clippings, correspondence, photographs, memoirs and other ephemera illustrating Norwegian-Americans service during World War I.</text>
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              <text>&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Letters from a Sailor: America at War 1917-1918 &lt;/em&gt;by Daniel E. Lee, 2011
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Based on eighty-five letters written by Conrad Lyman Ostroot, navy enlistee from Moscow, Idaho&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Article by Robert M. Pendleton, &lt;em&gt;In Memory of the Norwegian-American Casualties Lost in the Sinking of the United States Coast Guard Cutter U.S.S. Tampa, &lt;/em&gt;Thursday, September 26, 1918&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Photograph prints&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Letter from Alfred Bjorgen to family in Rothsay, Minnesota from France, May 10, 1919&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Postcard from Magnus Bjorgen &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scandinavia in the First World War: Studies in the War Experience of the Northern Neutrals&lt;/em&gt; edited by Claes Ahlund, 2013&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Audes-Anderson documents:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Certified copy of marriage between Ada Juliet Anderson and John Audes, May 2, 1938&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Confirmation certificate for Ada J. Anderson, June 17, 1906&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;John Audes honorable discharge from the United States Army, June 14, 1919&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;John Audes Certificate of Naturalization, June 7, 1918.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Private John Fredrickso&lt;/em&gt;n by Pauline Schreiber, 2018&lt;/li&gt;
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              <text>Location: 14/A/5</text>
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              <text>Clippings</text>
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              <text>Correspondence </text>
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