What's New at the Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives
Below are the featured articles or content pages from previous months. The Archives is constantly adding content and strives to make our patron's visit the best possible experience. Thank you for a rewarding eight years on line.
- The Duties and Responsibilities of a Transatlantic Steamship Captain at the turn of the Twentieth Century. With over 2,000 people on board, learn about how he spends a day in this richly illustrated article from 1901.
- Find out what Housekeeping on a large steamship was like in 1899
- Ever wonder how many crew members it took to run a steamship? Here's a breakdown for the Cunard steamships Campania and Lucania in 1893
- If your ancestors emigrated from Norway in the early 1900s, we have terrific photographs from 1908 taken of ships, towns and cities along the Western coast of Norway and people from 1908.
- Researching Ellis Island? See our extraordinary documents from an immigrant in 1923.
