Voices From the Past

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    William D. Munroe
    American mine manager
    Letter to the Arctic Coal Co., 10 Aug 1905

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    William D. Munroe
    American mine manager
    Letter to the Arctic Coal Co., 13 Jul 1906

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    William D. Munroe
    American mine manager
    Letter to the Arctic Coal Co., 13 Oct 1906

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    From Advent Bay
    Magazine article
    Husmoderen, 1906

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    Frederick Burrall
    American mine manager
    Letter to Arctic Coal Co., 25 Jul 1908

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    John Munro Longyear
    American mine owner
    Observations at Advent City, summer 1909

We thank our friends Nanou Blair Gould, Caroline Landau, Don Rose, Cliff Rose, and Will Anderson for voluntarily recording these historical texts.

Christiane Herrmann took the time to brush up some of the sound files where necessary.

Advent City’s inhabitants. Source: Norsk Folkemuseum NF.W05522