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Pictures of Longing

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Pictures of Longing

By Sigrid Lien

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About the book

Haunting and revealing photographs sent home by Norwegian immigrants in America as visual document and collective expression of the emigrant experience Between 1836 and 1915, in what has been called history\u2019s 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 experience unfolds as framed by thousands of Norwegian tra...Show more

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9781517901981

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published year

2018

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Pictures of Longing

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Hardcover

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