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.

Swedish railroad laborers

Swedish railroad laborers

Swedish railroad laborers (possibly on Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad tracks), ca. 1900. Young Swedish immigrant men helped build railroad lines across Minnesota.

Color image of the Swedish-language headstone of Swan Swanson in Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery Cemetery in Minneapolis, 2016. Photographed by Paul Nelson.

Swedish-language headstone of Swan Swanson

Swedish-language headstone of Swan Swanson in Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery Cemetery in Minneapolis, 2016. Photographed by Paul Nelson.

Color image of Gedney Sweet Midget Pickles label, c.1958.

Sweet Midget Pickles label

Gedney Sweet Midget Pickles label, c.1958.

Launching of the vessel “Sweetgum,” built by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co., Duluth, Minnesota. Image courtesy of the United States Coast Guard.

Sweetgum Launch in Duluth

Launching of the vessel “Sweetgum,” built by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co., Duluth, Minnesota. Image courtesy of the United States Coast Guard.

Cover of a brochure published by Swift & Company, a national meatpacker and margarine producer with operations in St. Paul. From the Davis, Kellogg & Severance Law Firm Records, 1878-1941, Minnesota Historical Society.

Swift’s Jersey Butterine

Cover of a brochure published by Swift & Company, a national meatpacker and margarine producer with operations in St. Paul. Image is from the Davis, Kellogg & Severance Law Firm Records, 1878-1941, Minnesota Historical Society.

Swift’s oleomargarine newspaper advertisement

Newspaper advertisement for Swift & Company, a national meatpacker and margarine producer with operations in St. Paul.

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