Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Carl Henrikson

Titles: Forest History Oral History Project: Interview with Carl Henrikson (Supplied title)

Description: SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Cost of food per logger; getting started in the logging business; building camps; revenue; equipment; personalities and nationalities of loggers; working in the Cloquet area; food in the camp; wannigans; lumber drives; kinds of timber; humorous stories from logging camps; building a camp; blacksmith shop; road construction; gypos; railroad construction; ice roads; swampers; scalers; the camp foreman; pests in and around camp; fishing; being the son of a Swedish immigrant; early life; a day in the life in a Swedish community; serving in the Navy in World War I; various stories from the war.

Dates

• 12/27/1954 - 01/18/1955 (Interviews conducted 12/27/1954, 1/8/1955 and 1/18/1955.) (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Nevins, Allen
• interviewer: Starr, Louis M.
• interviewee: Henrikson, Carl H. Jr.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 142
• Accession Number: AV2012.1.15

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 57 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: text

Subjects

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