Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Jhalmer Berg

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Jhalmer Berg (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Jhalmer Berg was born in 1897 in Rice River. He was a mill operator and sold lumber. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Early life; Rice River now known as Leander Lake; early community at Rice River; railroad coming through; parents emigrating from Sweden; working ore mines; timber and sawmill business; lumber camps; camp food; ethnicities of lumberjacks; mill work; losing an eye working in a saw mill; getting material from other operations; timekeeper shack; buying goods in a lumberjack camp; getting to the camps.

Dates

• 05/30/1977 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Wheeler, Robert C.
• interviewee: Berg, Hjalmer

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.3

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Forest History Oral History Project' <OH 142>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 18 pages transcript 1 sound disc

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:02:32 running time

Subjects

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