Papers, ca. 1900-1965.

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Papers, ca. 1900-1965.

Papers (1900-1965) of Onni Saari (1887-198- ) consist of personal correspondence, including letters to Saari's first wife Aino Saari; materials on Finnish Americans and their activities; materials on the Finnish American press; writings; and materials on the Ashburnham (Massachusetts) Farmers' Club, the United Co-operative Farms, and other cooperative activities. The collection includes histories of Finns in Friberg, Worcester, and Westminster (Massachusetts) and Troy (New Hampshire) written for the WPA Federal Writers Project.

3 linear ft.

eng,

fin,

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SNAC Resource ID: 7840298

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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United Co-operative Farmers (Mass.)

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Saari, Aino.

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Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts

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Ashburnham Farmers' Club (Mass.)

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Saari, Onni, b. 1887.

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Onni Saari (1887-198- ) was born in Finland and attended secondary school there before he came to the United States. He studied at the Work People's College in Duluth, Minnesota and later at the Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan. He served at various times as editor of the Finnish American and Finnish Canadian Socialist and Communist newspapers such as Raivaaja, Työmies, Sosialisti, Eteenpäin and Vapaus. He co-edited an English-Finnish dictionary with Santeri Nuorteva and translate...

Nuorteva, Santeri, 1881-1929

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