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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://www.archive.org/details/culturalheritageOOande AUGUSTANA LIBRARY PUBLICATIONS Number 27 LUCIEN WHITE, General Editor / h The CULTURAL HERITAGE of the SWEDISH IMMIGRANT Selected Rererences By O. FRITIOF ANDER ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS AUGUSTANA COLLEGE LIBRARY 1956 AUGUSTANA LIBRARY PUBLICATIONS 1. The Mechanical Composition of Wind Deposits. By Johan August Udden (1898) $1.00 2. An Old Indian Village. By Johan August Udden (1900) 1.00 3. The Idyl in German Literature. By Gustav Andreen (1902) 1.00 4. On the Cyclonic Distribution of Rainfall. Bv Johan August Udden (1905) io: 5. Fossil Mastodon and Mammoth Remains in Illinois and Iowa. By Netta C. Anderson. Proboscidian Fossi.s of the Pleistocene Depos- its in Illinois and Iowa. By Johan August Udden (1905) 1.00 6. Scandinavians Who Have Contributed to the Knowledge of the Flora of North America. By Per Axel Rydberg. A Geological Survey of Lands Belonging to the New York and Texas Land Company, Ltd., in the Upper Rio Grande Embayment in Texas. By John August Udden (1907) O. P. 7. Genesis and Development of Sand Formations on Marine Coasts. By Pehr Olsson-Seffer. The Sand Strand Flora of Marine Coasts By Pehr Olsson-Seffer (1910) IjOO 8. Alternative Readings in the Hebrew of the Books of Samuel. By Otto H. Bostrom (1918) 11 9. On the Solution of the Differential Equations of Motion of a Dou- ble Pendulum. By William E. Cederberg (1923) 75 10. The Danegeld in France. By Einar Joranson (1924) 1.25 11. Sedimentation in the Mississijrpi River beUceen Davenport. Iowa, and Cairo, Illinois. By Arvid L. Lugn (1927) 1.00 12. The Development of Commerce between the United States and Sweden, 1870-1925. By Frederick Tillberg (1S29) 1.25 13. Glacial Features of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Bv Fritiof M. Frvx- ell (1930) 1.50 14. T. N. Hasselquist: The Career and Influence of a Swedish-Ameri- can Clergyman, Journalist, and Educator. By Oscar Fritiof Ander (1931) 125 15. The Relation of the Swedish- American Newspaper to the Assimi- lation of Swedish Immigrants. By Albert Ferdinand Schersten (1935) 1.00 16. The Structural Geology and Physiography of the Teton Pass Area, Wyoming. By Leland Horberg (1938) 1.50 17. The Mexican Revolution of Ayutla, 1854-1855. Bv Richard A. Johnson (1939) 1.50 18. The Structural Geology of the Cache Creek Area. Gros Ventre Mountains, Wyoming. By Vincent E. Nelson (1942) 1.00 19. The Planting of tlie Swedisli Church in America: Graduation Dis- sertation of Tobias Eric Biorck. Translated and edited by Ira Oli- ver Nothstein (1943) 1 00 Tlie CULTURAL HERITAGE of the SWEDISH IMMIGRANT Selected References By O. FRITIOF ANDER AUGUSTANA LIBRARY PUBLICATIONS Number 27 Lucien White, General Editor [PRINTED 1 IN US A J AUGUSTANA BOOK CONCERN Printers and Binders Rock Island, Illinois DEDICATED TO D. L. ESTERDAHL A BENEFACTOR AND FRIEND OF MANY IMMIGRANTS c c5x I TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Foreword by Conrad Bergendoff vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi List of Abbreviations xv 1. Bibliography of bibliographies 1 2. Background of Swedish emigration 10 3. America books 24 4. Emigrant Guide books 36 5. Swedish immigrants in American life. General contributions . 46 6. Church and education 75 7. Religious and secular literature 113 8. Art, Music, and the Theater 133 9. Newspapers, periodicals, and annuals. Religious and secular . 147 10. Archive materials 188 FOREWORD A bewildering array of material greets the student who would find his way in the history of Swedish immigrants in America. Where does the story begin, where does it end? Its beginning is interwoven with the fabric of an old European culture; it ends in the manifold patterns of an emerging American civilization. One can pick up a thread here or there and follow it back to its origins or forwards to its absorption in a new world. No one has yet separated all the threads or even attempted to assemble all the ma- terials that have gone into this variegated texture binding Sweden and America together over the course of a century. Prof. O. Fritiof Ander has been asked by the Swedish Pioneer Historical Society to attempt a bibliography of this vast material. He has worked in this field for over twenty years, both in Sweden and in America. The result of some of his labors is gathered up in this bibliography which the Society feels will be of inestimable value to the student who is interested in tracing a modern folk migration from old worlds to new. It is admitted that a bib- liography of this kind of movement can never be exhaustive and its con- tents never neatly formed into altogether satisfactory categories. But it can be an invaluable guide to anyone seeking to discover what and where ma- terial exists which throws light on particular phases of this baffling cultural phenomenon of immigration. Conrad Bergendoff Rock Island, HI. June, 1956 vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The work on this bibliography began several years ago as a project spon- sored by the Swedish Pioneer Historical Society. In the earliest stages of the work suggestions were accepted from several historians, who were in- terested in the progress made on the bibliography. Among these mention should be made of Theodore C. Blegen, dean of the Graduate School, Uni- versity of Minnesota; Merle Curti, professor of history, University of Wis- consin; Paul W. Gates, professor of history, Cornell University; Oscar Handlin, professor of history, Harvard University; Carl F. Wittke, dean of the Graduate School, Western Reserve University; and my very close friend George M Stephenson, professor emeritus of history, University of Minne- sota. Professor E. Gustav Johnson of North Park College, Professor Adolf Olson of Bethel College, and the Rev. Wesley Westerberg of Naperville, 111., have been very kind in providing information of importance on materials on the Evangelical Mission Covenant Church, the Baptist General Conference of America and the Swedish Methodist Church. Dr. Robert B. Downs, director of the University of Illinois Library and Library School, and a past president of the American Library Association, together with two members of his staff, namely Professors Rose B. Phelps and Leslie W. Dunlap, have read the manuscript and their suggestions were appreciated. The Board of Directors of Augustana College granted a semester's leave of absence for the fall of 1952 in order to allow time for the completion of the work at the Royal Library, Stockholm, Sweden. The Social Science Re- search Council and the American Philosophical Society voted grants-in-aid to defray some of the expenses associated with the research. A word of appreciation is also due the Swedish-American Line which through the kind office of Mr. G. Hilmer Lundbeck made the journey to and from Sweden a most pleasant experience. Over a period of nearly a century Augustana College has acted as a spe- cial agent of the Royal Library in collecting materials on the life of the Swedish immigrants in America. This friendly relationship between Augus- tana College and the Royal Library was first fostered by T. N. Hasselquist and the head librarian, Harald Wieselgren. As a result the Royal Library has today an excellent collection of Swedish-Americana. I wish also to ex- press my gratitude to all the members of the staff of the Royal Library of Stockholm, who made the work on this bibliography a pleasant experience. I am greatly indebted to Carl Sorling of Springfield, 111., and D. L. Ester- dahl of Moline, 111., whose financial assistance has helped to make publica- tion of this volume possible. They have long been interested in the cul- ture of the Swedish immigrant. I wish also to acknowledge my indebtedness to the Augustana Book Concern for its generous aid, financial and otherwise. A word of thanks is due to the staff of the Denkmann Memorial Li- brary of Augustana College for assistance and co-operation, especially to Miss Drusilla Erickson, periodicals librarian, for verifying many periodica entries, and to Dr. Lucien White, head librarian, for helpful guidance as to bibliographical style. Few scholarly tasks are more demanding and exacting than a biblio- graphical work. Yet it seems as if no amount of precaution and effort will insure the elimination of errors, and for these the compiler alone is responsible. O. Fritiof Ander Augustana College June, 1956 INTRODUCTION Three years ago the Swedish Pioneer Historical Society requested me to prepare a biblography on Swedish immigration and the Swedish immigrants in America. The Historical Society did not define the meaning of the word immigrant nor did it outline even briefly the scope of the bibliography. Un- doubtedly, the society was chiefly interested in an immediate ready reference for those interested in doing research in the field of the immigrant's contri- butions to American history as well as in a usable guide for those whose in- terests were less professional. Such a bibliography could easily have been prepared by pooling the bibliographical references found in better known works on the Swedish immigrants, and such a guide might well have served a purpose. Within the Historical Society there were voices which expressed a wish for a definitive bibliography on the Swedish immigrants in America. It is very doubtful indeed if a more inclusive bibliography on the Swedish immigrants in America will ever be prepared, yet the word "definitive" is too strong an adjective to use in describing this guide. It has its very marked limitations. It seeks to include only that literature which deals with the immigrants who were conscious of an immigrant status, a feeling which gave rise to a desire to seek the company of other immigrants of the same national stock to foster and perhaps to perpetuate certain ideals and institu- tions in America.

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