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Elin�s Amerika (rev., 3rd ed.)

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Award-winning children�s author Marguerite de Angeli tells the story of Elin, a young girl who has come to live in the New Sweden Colony. She helps us envision how these many different peoples -- Swedes, Finns, Lenape, Minquas (Susquehannock), Dutch and British related to one another. Elin�s search for friendship, love of family, and anticipation of celebrations seem familiar. Her isolation from other children, lack of basic things, and the daily routine of chores may seem quite unfamiliar. New Sweden was established in 1638, under the guidance of Peter Minuit, when Swedish colonists were sent to the New World to claim lands in the area around the Delaware River in southeastern PA and south NJ. For ages 8-12. Illustrations.

American Swedish �73

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Contents: The Swedish-American of the Year; Nordstjernan-Svea 100; Gerhard T. Rooth; Thyra Ferre-Bjorn; Bishop Hill, Illinois; Robert Owen & Bishop Hill; Joe Hill & The Emigrants; Sture Lindmark�s Swedish-America, 1014-1932; Emigration Research at Uppsala: Five Dissertations; Scandinavica at Claremont College; Dialect Hunters in Swedish America; Maryland, My Maryland!; The Other Emigrants; The House of Immigrants: Vaxja; Varmland�s Emigrant Register; Texas Swedish Pioneers Assoc.; Maine�s New Sweden Historical Museum; The Erlander Home Museum; Sweden�s Sexual Code; The Swedish Council of America; and Book Reviews.

Christopher Polhem: The Father of Swedish Technology

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Translation of a volume originally published in 1911 about Christopher Polhem (CP), a great man in the history of technology and scientific discovery. But Polhem is not known in the English-speaking world, because the Swedish language has been a cultural barrier. Technically, what Sweden possesses today is dependent upon CP and his dream for an industrial Sweden. Contents: A Contribution to the Biography of CP, by Samuel Bring; CP�s Contributions to Applied Mechanics, by Gustaf Sellergren; CP, The Mining Engineer, by Herman Sundholm; CP�s Contribution to the Art of Building, by Nils Cronstedt; and A Contribution to a CP Biblio., by Samuel Bring: Published Works by and About CP; and CP�s Manuscripts. Illus.

American Swedish Historical Museum

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An introduction to the Museum�s history, galleries, & collections. On a day in early June, 1926, Crown Prince Gustav (VI) Adolf of Sweden laid his hand on the cornerstone of the John Morton Memorial Building in South Philadelphia to help guide it into place. The site chosen for the building was once part of a 17th-century land grant from Queen Christina of Sweden to Swedish colonist Sven Skute. The year 1926 marked the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Due to the Depression, it was not until 1938 that the newly renamed American Swedish Historical Museum officially opened as a part of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Swedish presence in the Delaware Valley. Color & b&w illustrations.

American Swedish �72

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Contents: Five Poems of Par Lagerkvist, tr. W. H. Auden with Leif Sjoberg; Swedish Cemetery in America, by Vilhelm Moberg, tr. Carmen Sandstrom-Smith; Swedish Emigrants on the Screen, by Brigitta Steene; �Oklahoma� and �Five Stanzas to Thoreau,� by Tomas Transtromer, tr. May Swenson with Leif Sjoberg; Three Poems from the New World, by Lars Gustafsson, tr. and commentary by Yvonne Sandstroem; Landscape in Sweden: Driving North from Malmo, Perishable Cargo in the Skargard, A Simple Stone, by Eric Sellin; Winning an Audience for Strindberg, by Evert Springchorn; Commentary, by Yvonne Sandstroem; Letter from Hollywood: A Sunny Story, by Signe Hasso; Arrivals, by Filippa Rolf; Hjalmar Bergman in Hollywood, by Erik Jh. Linder, tr. Marna Feldt and Carmen Sandstrom-Smith; An Amer. Actor Looks at the Swedish Play, by Bob Horen; Joe Hill in Prison, by Goran Printz-Pahlson, tr. Richard Vowles.

American Swedish Historical Museum: Yearbook -- 1944

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Contents: Sweden�s Profile in America, by Alva & Gunnar Myrdal; The Long Sleep: An Essay on Swedish Nationalism, by John Lindberg; A Swedish Officer of Charles XII Directs a Settlement in Colonial Louisiana, by Adolph B. Benson; & the House on Queen Christina�s Land Grant, by Ormond Rambo, Jr. Illus.

American Swedish Historical Museum: Yearbook -- 1945

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Contents: Swedish-American Cultural Relations, 1925-1945, by Wollmar F. Bostrom; The Swedes of Texas, by Carl M. Rosenquist; A Swedish Community in Kansas, by C. Terence Pihlblad; The Agricultural Revolution & Swedish Emigration, by O. Fritiof Ander; The Bishop Hill Settlement, by David E. Lindstrom; & Olof Gustaf Hedstrom, by Evald Benjamin Lawson. Illus.

American Swedish Historical Museum: Yearbook -- 1961

American Swedish Historical Museum: Yearbook -- 1961

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Contents: The Return of the Next Generation, by Nils Y. Wessell; Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, by Amandus Johnson; Pehr Kalm�s Journey to North America, by Adolph B. Benson; �A Memory of Sweden,� by Milklen Brand; Two Reviews; Olaf Krans, Folk Painter from Bishop Hill, by Del Nordquist; Modern Sweden, by Ake Sandler; Our �Perpetual� Mayor, by Jennie Vimmerstedt; The Runes of Sweden, by Henry Goddard Leach; My Swedish Step-Grandmother, by Paul Gardner Wright; Sweden & the Beginning of the American Civil War, by Ernst Ekman; Mission Springs & Sveadal -- 35th Anniversaries, by Ruby Lindberg; & Man-Made Elements -- A Story of Pioneering in Chemistry, by Glenn T. Seaborg. Illus.

American Swedish Historical Museum: Yearbook -- 1962

American Swedish Historical Museum: Yearbook -- 1962

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Contents: The Challenging Frontiers of Electronics, by Elmer Engstrom; Some Worcester County Swedes, by Magnhild Erickson; August Fredrik Soldan: A Versatile Finnish Scholar in America, 1849-1858, by Ernest Moyne; Where PA History Began, by Samuel Booth Sturgis; �I Want to Meet a Troll,� by Thelma Allinder; �Dag Hammarskjold: In Memoriam (1905-1961),� by Elias Lieberman; Dag Hammarskjold, by Sven Ahman; Methodism and the Swedish Immigrant: The Life of Olof Gustaf Hedstrom, by William Johnson; Dr. John August Udden 1859-1932, by Carl Widen; The Voyages of the Ancient Norsemen to America, by Esther Louise Larson; The Wanderer: Carl Oscar Borg, by Raymond Lindgren; and A Swede Aboard the �Monitor.�

American Swedish Historical Museum: Yearbook -- 1963

American Swedish Historical Museum: Yearbook -- 1963

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Contents: Five Years in America, by Gunnar Jarring; Gloria Dei (Old Swedes�) Church, by John Craig Roak; Walter George Danielson, by Birger Tinglof; Swedish-Hawaiian Relations in the 19th Century, by Ernst Ekman; Thorsten Sellin, by Roy E. Nichols; George Nathaniel Jeppson (1873-1962), by Naboth Hedin; Swedish Lichens, by Vernon Ahmandjian & Sven Nilsson; Hjalmar, by Vivian Martin; Swenson�s Christmas, by Charles E. Bomgren; Lines on the Demise of a World Statesman, by Anna-Lisa Forsell; Dolls with Souls, by Henry Goddard Leach; Swedish American Authors, by Henry Goddard Leach; & Amandus Johnson, by Esther Chilstrom Meixner. Illus.