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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lien, Sigrid, 1958- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Sjoholm, Barbara, 1950- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Norwegian
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Vernacular photography.
Norwegian Americans.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Subjects & Themes > Historical.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Imaging Systems.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Reference.
COMPUTERS > Digital Media > Photography.
Americains d'origine norvegienne > Histoire > Sources.
Photographie vernaculaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Norwegian Americans > History > Sources.
Vernacular photography > United States > History.
United States.
Sources.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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