Elsie NELSON (b. 1890)
Residence: Moscow
Occupation(s): Head cook at Hotel Moscow; teacher; author of Today Is Ours
Family Origin: Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1886)
Interviews
Elsie Nelson Interview #1, 3/14/1974
- Topics:
- Moscow - beginnings and existence as a pioneer town. Homesteaders' relation to Moscow. 3-14-74 1.5 hr 6p LS
- Duration:
- 1:28:14
- Interviewer:
- Laura Schrager
- Keywords:
- University of Idaho authors childbirth colleges and universities fires gambling homesteads hotels immigrants mining post offices railroads stores
- Locations:
- Moscow Paradise Ridge
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Elsie Nelson Interview #2, 3/27/1974
- Topics:
- Swedish Christmas. Indians and other cultural groups. Homestead economics; father's railroading. 3-27-74 1.5 hr 6p LS
- Duration:
- 1:33:02
- Interviewer:
- Laura Schrager
- Keywords:
- holidays churches food religion African Americans threshing farms farming Native Americans homesteads railroads death chores
- Locations:
- Moscow Juliaetta
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Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Elsie NELSON (b. 1890)", Latah County Oral History Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/lcoh/people/nelson_elsie.html
Rights
- Rights:
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.