Swedish immigrant John Lineer’s shoe store (851 Payne Avenue, St. Paul), ca. 1897. The store was one of many Payne Avenue businesses operated by Swedish Americans and served the needs of the local community.

Immanuel Lutheran Church, Almelund (Chisago County). Photograph by J. W. Rand, 1894. Churches helped Swedish immigrants meet the challenges of adapting to their new lives, especially in rural areas.

Employees of Swedish immigrant John Ogren at his lumber camp near Mora, on the Snake River, ca. 1890.

Charles Samuelson in front of Samuelson’s Confectionery, 1890. The store was a Swedish American business in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Newspaper ads preferring Swedish applicants for domestic service jobs. Published in the St. Paul Daily Globe, May 5, 1889 (page 15).

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

Cover of ““Minnesota Och Dess Fördelar För Invandraren” (“Minnesota and its Advantages for Immigrants”), a pamphlet written in 1867 by Hans Mattson to encourage Swedes to immigrate to Minnesota.

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

The Macalester College Pipe Band performing at the St. Andrew's Society of Minnesota Burns Night Supper, 1998.