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  1. Only showing results from www.mnhs.org

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  2. Svenskamerika or Swedish America, as the Swedish American community began to be referred to around 1900, was a collective description of the cultural and religious traditions that the Swedish immigrants brought to their new homeland. These traditions were both preserved and changed through interaction with American society, and formed the basis ...
  3. Hundreds of Swedish-language newspapers were published in the United States from 1850 onward, catering to America's Swedish immigrant communities. Use this online portal to learn more about these newspapers, and to search over 300,000 digitized newspaper pages from 39 different Swedish American newspaper titles published across the United ...
  4. Teaching Native American History & Culture. Resources developed to broaden your knowledge and engage students. ... the men in a lumber camp usually have other work the rest of the year. The logging camp would have a hard time finding workers in the busy summer, but in winter farmers and other laborers are looking for jobs. ...
  5. Roads ended the camp system, allowing loggers to get into remote areas, haul their loads out on trucks, and still get home in time for supper. At the same time, pine harvests grew smaller, the quality of Minnesota lumber was going down, and lumber prices were going up. National demand for wood remained high, and Minnesota lumbermen kept cutting.
  6. A constant stream of Swedish immigration to the west coast of the United States through the twentieth century contributed to the paper's longevity. Vestkusten began in October 1886 as a four page monthly pamphlet titled Ebenezer , started by Augustana Lutheran pastor Johannes Tellen to provide church news to his parishioners.
  7. Another man called "Dynamite Tom" had charge of dynamiting the stumps from the logging road. Tom was a highly educated man and claimed to be related to Thomas Carlyle. Unfortunately, he was a chronic drinker and he worked in the lumber camps in order to stay as far as possible from liquor. Occasionally the men would sneak liquor into the camp.
  8. Swedish; Nordstjernan (New York, N.Y.) 1872-1966 Browse the title. Nordstjernan (the North Star), the leading Swedish American newspaper on the East Coast, published its first issue in New York City on Saturday September 21, 1872. It was published weekly on Saturdays at noon by Svenska tryckförening (Swedish Printing Company), which had been ...
  9. Svenska monitoren was Republican in politics and focused on local news, political discussion, and the interests of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church. It was published weekly, and issues were eight pages long. The second page of each issue was entirely devoted to news from Sweden, with correspondence from many Swedish cities.
  10. Lumberjack looking at a shirt in the camp store, Pine Island area, Big Falls, 1900-1902. Minnesota Historical Society Photograph Collection, Location no. HD5.7 p98, Negative no. 20724 "An office and store, sometimes called a 'van,' which is the headquarters and the sleeping place of the foreman, camp clerk and log scaler.
  11. News from the lumber camps, including reports of hunting and logging and news of railroad accidents, fires, and drownings appeared in practically every issue. The paper also included announcements and reviews of concerts, librarian reports, and coverage of local and high school baseball, basketball, and football teams.
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