American Swedish Historical Museum Amandus Johnson collection Bulk, 1929-1965 1904-1974

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American Swedish Historical Museum Amandus Johnson collection Bulk, 1929-1965 1904-1974

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Amandus Johnson (1877-1974) was a prominent figure in the Swedish American community who was instrumental in the founding and early operations of the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The American Swedish Historical Museum Amandus Johnson collection, 1904-1974, is an assembled collection of records relating to Johnson's role in the American Swedish Historical Museum, as well as some of his private papers and scholarship. It features a large number of glass plate and film negatives of pages of documents, exhibits, places in Sweden, etc.

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American Swedish Historical Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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The first permanent European settlement in the Delaware Valley was New Sweden, a colony founded by Swedish emigrants in 1638. Swedish sovereignty over the colony lasted less than 20 years, although Swedes continued to settle in the area and exerted an influence over its cultural development. Swedish immigration to the United States rose sharply for the period from 1867 and 1914, when difficult economic conditions in Sweden and cheap land in the United States encouraged many to make ...

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Johnson, Amandus, 1877-1974

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Worked in the editorial office of the John Morton Memorial Museum. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1933. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 238373955 ...