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1 online resource (xiii, 320 p.) |
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pt. 1. Homeland. "I couldn't see over the mountains." / Henny Hale. "We never knew what real medicine was." / Ester Sundvik. "I get so lonesome for Finland." / Ina Silverberg. "When I was a child, we ate out of a common big dish." / Martin Rasmussen. "He slipped out of the country." / Sigfrid Ohrt. "We were raised like regular puritans." / Andrew Johnson. "Home you had plenty to eat, but there was no cash." / Torvald Opsal. "We had to find out for ourselves how to make things go." / Gretchen Yost. "Up in the north, they believe in trolls." / Bergljot DeRosa. "I have such good memories of Christmas Eve." / Else Goodwin. "When peace broke out ..." / Magnhild Johnsen -- pt. 2. New Land. "We were thinking America in high tones when we saw that Statue of Liberty." / Ole Blindheim. "I never got into any hand-to-hand fighting and I was glad of it." / Goodman Norwick. "Did we get to heaven?" / Elsie Odmark. "You just had to trust somebody." / Ida Apalseth. "Finland those days, you never see any black people." / Esther Rinne. "I got infested with lice." / Alli Benson. "We had to start all over again, writing A's and B's." / Laura Foss. "The fruit trees were in blossoming white and I thought it was like paradise." / Hans Fahl. "The sea is where you have to look for a livelihood." / Gustav Simonson. "My first Christmas, I hauled manure on Christmas Day." / Sigvald Stenersen. "I'm not going to freeze for five dollars a month in Minnesota." / Thorvald Kofoed. "A lady from the YWCA met us and she talked Swedish." / Astrid Lovestrand -- pt. 3. New Lives: Work. "Butter on the bread." / John Kuivala. "I worked for wealthy people, that's for sure." / Emmy Berg. "It's hard to be put down." / Marie Berglund. "I was with the worst -- gamblers, prostitutes, everything you could think of." / Ralph Strom. "They like Finnish girls." / Hanna Sippala. "We sold fresh-churned butter right out of the churn." / Grethe Petersen. "I have put in seventy years on boats." / Anton Isaksen. "I never did like housework." / Margit Johnsen. "We haven't got a tailor between 23rd and East Madison." / Ole Nissen. "Everybody's gonna eat and everybody's gonna wear clothes." / Jenny Pedersen -- pt. 4 /. New Lives: Family. "The women had their babies at home." / Anne Hansen. "I started out just like the pioneers did in the wild timbers." / Olaf Sivertson. "Dad needed someone to stay home." / Christine Emerson. "You're gonna go to school, if I can help it." / Hans Fredrickson. "There is nobody that can take a mother's place." / Anna Johnson. "I saw the little, beautiful girl and I was happy and satisfied." / Gertie Hjortedal -- pt. 5 /. New Lives: Tradition. "We had the Iceland library in our home." / Jon Magnusson and Gudrun Magnusson. "It was just like getting a letter from home." / Julius Tollefson. "Everybody were your friends." / Signe Steel. "Because I am a Dane and have gone to folk schools, I think I am a better American." / Frederik Madsen. "All my life, I've been eating rye bread." / Hilma Salvon. "I have my language from Norway, and my tradition." / Arnfinn Bruflot -- Appendix: Interview Questionnaire |
| Summary |
"NEW LAND, NEW LIVES tells in their own words the experiences of 45 immigrants (28 of them women) in the early years of the 20th century. Rasmussen's selections capture the textures and tones of ordinary life. They show how the cultures the immigrants had known in the Old World influenced ... life in the Pacific Northwest"--TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE. 41 photos |
| Analysis |
Alaska Social life and customs |
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Geschichte 1900-1930 |
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Immigrants Alaska Interviews |
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Immigrants Northwest, Interviews |
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Northwest, Social life and customs |
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Scandinavian Alaska Interviews |
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Scandinavian Alaska Social life and customs |
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Scandinavian Northwest, Interviews |
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Scandinavian Northwest, Social life and customs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-320) |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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Scandinavian Americans -- Northwest, Pacific -- Social life and customs
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Scandinavian Americans -- Alaska -- Social life and customs
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Scandinavian Americans -- Northwest, Pacific -- Interviews
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Scandinavian Americans -- Alaska -- Interviews
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Immigrants -- Northwest, Pacific -- Interviews
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Immigrants -- Alaska -- Interviews
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.)
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Immigrants
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Manners and customs
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Scandinavian Americans
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Scandinavian Americans -- Social life and customs
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Scandinavian Americans.
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Northwest, Pacific -- Social life and customs.
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| SUBJECT |
Northwest, Pacific -- Social life and customs
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Alaska -- Social life and customs
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Alaska
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Pacific Northwest
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United States, Northwest (Pacific) -- Emigration and immigration.
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United States, Alaska -- Emigration and immigration.
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interviews.
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Interviews
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Interviews.
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Interviews.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021700665 |
| ISBN |
9780295803852 |
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0295803851 |
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