Swede Hollow, St. Paul

Swede Hollow, St. Paul

Description: Swede Hollow, St. Paul, ca. 1910. Swedish settlement in St. Paul began in the ravine along Phalen Creek.

Swedish birthday postcard with Charlie Brown illustration

Postcard with greeting “JEG HABER/DIN FODSELSDAG/BLI'R ABESKON” (I hope your birthday is very wonderful). Drawing by Charles Schulz, published by Hallmark Grako, Sweden, 1969. Accession 1992.312.10. 3D Objects Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Swedish birthday postcard with Snoopy illustration

Swedish birthday postcard with Snoopy illustration

Rectangular postcard with cartoon of Peanuts character Snoopy dressed as a World War I flying ace piloting his doghouse while singing “JA, MA DU LEVA” (“Yes, you must live well,” a birthday greeting). Drawing by Charles Schulz, published by Hallmark Grako, Sweden, 1969.

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran (Our Savior’s Lutheran Church), Ham Lake, July 1990. Photographer unknown. Anoka County Historical Society, Object ID# 232.1.02.

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran (Our Savior’s Lutheran Church), Ham Lake, July 1990. Photographer unknown. Anoka County Historical Society, Object ID# 232.1.02.

A side view of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church, (Our Savior’s Lutheran Church), Ham Lake, including part of the cemetery. This image was originally a slide. Photographer and date unknown.

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church

A side view of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church, (Our Savior’s Lutheran Church), Ham Lake, including part of the cemetery. This image was originally a slide. Photographer and date unknown.

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran (Our Savior’s Lutheran Church), Ham Lake. Photograph by Bill Magnuson, 2005.

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran (Our Savior’s Lutheran Church), Ham Lake. Photograph by Bill Magnuson, 2005.

Swedish folk dancers at Loring Park

Swedish folk dancers at Loring Park

Swedish folk dancers pose at a Loring Park festival organized by the Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association in Minneapolis, 1915. Minneapolis Morning Tribune (May 12, 1915)

Swedish immigrants outside their cabin in Minnesota, ca. 1880.

Swedish immigrants outside their cabin in Minnesota, ca. 1880.

Swedish immigrants outside their cabin in Minnesota, ca. 1880. rural Swedish immigrants often lived in one- or two-room log cabins.

Swedish immigrant’s trunk

Swedish immigrant’s trunk

Wooden trunk made in southern Sweden in 1776 and brought to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1882.

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