Pictures of longing : photography and the Norwegian-American migration /

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"Between 1836 and 1915, in what has been called history's largest population migration, more than 750,000 Norwegians emigrated to North America. Writing home, the newcomers sent thousands of pictures--America-photographs, as they are called in Norway. In these photographs, the emigrant exp...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lien, Sigrid, 1958- (Author)
Other Authors: Sjoholm, Barbara, 1950- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Norwegian
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Vernacular photography > United States > History.
Norwegian Americans > History > Sources.
Photographie vernaculaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Américains d'origine norvégienne > Histoire > Sources.
COMPUTERS > Digital Media > Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Imaging Systems.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Subjects & Themes > Historical.
Norwegian Americans
Vernacular photography
United States
History
Sources
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Send us your portraits": Letters and pictures in the history of emigration
  • The glass plates in the tobacco barn: Andrew Dahl's photographic production
  • Views from Main Street: small-town photographers in Minnesota
  • Last seen alone on the prairie: emigration and the unseen female photographers
  • Place and the rhythm of life: Peter J. Rosendahl's photographs from Spring Grove
  • Out of cupboards and drawers: America-photography in Norwegian rural communities
  • Saved from oblivion: photography in the chronicles of Norwegian-American families
  • Conclusion: "God, how I have longed": America-photographs as interventions
  • Norwegian-American photographers, 1860-1960.

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