Nansen Agricultural Historic District Oral History Project: Interview with Janise Dalbatton Timbeross

Titles: Nansen Agricultural Historic District Oral History Project: Interview with Janise Dalbatton Timbeross (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Janise Timbeross grew up in the Sogn/Nansen Valley. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Timbeross provided information about the history of families in the Sogn/Nansen Valley, including regional (Norwegian) dialects spoken and area church affiliations based on these traditional ethnic distinctions. She also talked about early life in the valley, some farming practices, social gatherings, the use of woodlots and springs, foods - including her father's ordering Lake Superior fish - the cheese factory and her family history. She provided extensive information about the interrelationships of the valley families and gave information about the social interconnectedness of the families during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dates

• 05/26/1999 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Timbeross, Janise Dalbatton
• interviewer: Sommer, Barbara W.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 55
• Accession Number: AV1999.107.2

Credit: Digitized with support from an anonymous fund for Norwegian American History.

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Nansen Agricultural Historic District Oral History Project' <OH 55>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 29 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:49:48 running time

Subjects

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