Dublin Core
- Title
- Campbell Norsgaard Collection (2022/013)
- Identifier
- NAHA 2022/013
- Creator
- Norsgaard, Campbell
- Description
- Campbell Norsgaard, a Norwegian-born photographer and cinematographer who later lived in Connecticut, served as the official photographer for the Royal Norwegian Air Force during World War II, documenting servicemen, aircraft, the Royal Family, training facilities, and international operations, before later producing nature films for the National Geographic Society. His collection includes color slides, transparencies, and black-and-white negatives from Canada, India, Norway, England, and beyond, featuring aerial views, portraits, wartime activities, the return of King Haakon VII, and Sigrid Undset’s travels, as well as signed pilot portraits; it also contains nineteen 16mm films (1942–1946) depicting Camp Little Norway, the Royal Family, the RNAF, and postwar events in Norway and Russia.
- Funding to digitize the Campbell Norsgaard Collection was provide by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Is Part Of
- The finding aid to the Campbell Norsgaard Collection can be found here.
