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Holmen (Wis.) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

A Pioneer Story of Agnethe Thompson by Frances Sjuggerud, Mildred Holter, and Thomas Johnson of Holmen, Wisconsin

 Collection — Box MISC 63, Folder: 1
Identifier: MISC MSS 293
Abstract

Copy of "A Pioneer Story" by Frances Sjuggerud, a sixteen year old high school student from Holmen, Wisconsin, and written between 1936-1939. Sjuggerud's writing is a brief biography of her neighbor Agnethe (Fixen) Thompson, born October 29, 1863, in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway. This typed transcript forms part of the U. S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. The original transcript is housed as part of the Library of Congress' Folklore Project, Life Histories, 1936-1939.

Dates: circa 1936-1939

Thomas Pederson Reminiscences of the Long Coulee Community

 Collection — Box MISC 49
Identifier: MISC MSS 101
Abstract

Photocopy of reminiscences written by Thomas Pederson in 1924 regarding pioneer life and social customs of the Norwegian community of Long Coulee near Holmen, Wisconsin in the 1860s.

Dates: 1860s