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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Sigurd F. and Elizabeth Olson papers, 1916-2003
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| Description: | Snapshot taken by Sigurd Olson of refugees scavenging in military trash bins. Although the location is not identified, it is probably in or near Berlin. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Men pulling a cart. It was, he wrote, the way "people move their stuff." Although undated, it was taken before June, 1946 when he returned to the United ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | U.S. soldiers are sitting on the ground between classes at Shrivenham. The school at Shrivenham was operated by the Army after the end of the war, and thi... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A coffin cart photographed by Sigurd Olson while traveling, probably in Germany, shortly after the end of the World War II. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | American soldier purchasing something from a food cart, a scene photographed by conservationist Sigurd Olson while traveling in Europe immediately after th... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Soldiers waiting to board ship for their return home after World War II. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Conservationist Sigurd F. Olson, who was on a special military teaching assigment, took this picture of U.S. troops in Berlin marching to his lecture. Bomb... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Headquarters of Company C of the 793rd Military Police Battalion in post-World War II Germany. Although the location is not identified, Sigurd F. Olson, wh... |
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| Description: | Sigurd F. Olson at the "shack" near his Ely home where he did most of his writing. |
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| Description: | Conservationist Sigurd F. Olson pruning a tree in his Ely house yard. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Conservationist and outdoorsman Sigurd F. Olson taking a break from shoveling snow outside his home. |
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| Description: | Conservation advocate Sigurd F. Olson stocking smallmouth bass in the canoe country near the Minnesota-Canadian border. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Members of the National Parks Advisory Board in Alaska with Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall (second from the left). Others, left to right, are Sig... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Writer and conservationist Wallace Stegner, and his wife Mary, during a visit to Alaska as a member of the National Parks Advisory Board and special assist... |
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| Description: | Interior view of "the shack" behind his home where conservation advocate and writer Sigurd F. Olson wrote his books. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Sigurd F. Olson standing on cliff overlooking Robinson Lake in Quetico Provincial Park. Another person is sitting on a boulder next to where he stands. |
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