OTHER PUBLICATIONS

In De sålde sina penslar. Om några svenska målare som emigrerade till USA (Stockholm: Svenska Målareförbundet/Tidens förlag, 1987, 134 pp., hardcovered), Per Nordahl of Umeå University examines Swedish immigrant painters as a case study of Swedish-American trade union activity on both the organizational and individual levels. * * * The Augustana Historical Society has brought out The Church of Sweden on the Delaware, 1638-1831 (Rock Island, 111., 1988, 38 pp., softcovered), by Conrad Bergendoff, an updated, expanded, and attractively illustrated version of an article originally published in Church History, 7 (1938), covering the nearly two hundred-year history of the Swedish state church's mission in the Delaware Valley, beginning with the New Sweden colony in 1638. Order from Augustana Historical Society, Augustana College Library, Rock Island, IL 61201. The price is $5.00. * * * The earliest nineteenth-century emigration from Sweden is examined in detail by the German scholar, Reinhold Wulff, in Die Anfangsphase der Emigration aus Schweden in die USA, 1820-1850. Gesamtdarstellung anhand der amerikanischen Passagierlisten sowie Detailanalyse der Emigration aus Kisa in Östergötland, Europäische Hochschulschriften: Reihe 3, Geschichte und ihre Hilfswissen• schaften, Bd. 336 (Frankfurt a/M and Bern: Peter Lang, 1987, 348 pp.). Wulff analyzes information from American passenger lists between 1820 and 1850, and gives special attention to the first real group migration, from Kisa parish in Östergötland, beginning in 1845. Contact: Peter Lang AG, Postfach 277, CH-3000 Bern 15, Switzerland. The price is 69:- Swiss francs. * * *

The sizable but often overlooked migration of Swedes, mainly farm workers, to neighboring Denmark during the nineteenth century and beyond, is the subject of Den glemte indvandring. Den svenske indvandring til Danmark 1850-1914 (Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1983), which has recently come to our attention. From Denmark, some eventually continued on to North America, thus remaining unrecorded in Sweden's official statistics on emigration across the Atlantic. * * *

45 The University of Minnesota Press has recently released Their Own Saga: Letters from the Norwegian Global Migration (Minneapolis, 1987) edited by Frederick Hale, documenting the migration of some 800,000 Norwegians not only to the United States and Canada, but also to Australia, South Africa, and other lands. We do not presently have further details. Contact: University of Minnesota Press, 2037 University Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55414.

The latest volume, no. 4, in the Norwegian-American Historical Association's Topical Studies is Nina Draxton, The Testing of M. Falk Gjertsen (Northfield, Minn., 1988, 134 pp., hardcovered), about the humiliation and later revindication of a Norwegian-American Lutheran pastor accused of sexual scandal in 1901. The book costs $12.00 + $1.50 for postage and handling. Order from: Norwegian- American Historical Association, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057.

Steven J. Keillor's Hjalmar Petersen of Minnesota: The Politics of Provincial Independence (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987) explores the political activity of a Danish-American one-time governor of Minnesota and leading figure in the Farmer-Labor party. Contact: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 690 Cedar Street, St. Paul, MN 55101.

The Nordland Heritage Foundation has published A Common Land, a Diverse People (Sioux Falls, S.D., 1987), edited by Harry F. Thompson, Arthur R. Husboe, and Sandra Olsen Looney, contain• ing essays drawn from the South Dakota Humanities Seminar, the Berdahl-Rölvaag Lecture Series, and the Augustana Journalism Forum, on cultural identity versus diversity on the Prairie Plains. Included among the nine essays on various ethnic groups are "Norwegian Roots on an American Tree" by Robert Bly and "The Slip-Up Settlement and Ole Rölvaag" by Clarence Berdahl. The book in hardcover costs $12.00, in paperback $6.00. Order from: Nordland Heritage Foundation, Box 2172, Humanities Center, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD 57197.

46 Foreign & Female: Immigrant Women in America, 1840-1930, edited by Doris Weatherford (New York: Schocken Books, 1987) draws upon the letters and diaries of women immigrants in America, of various nationalities including Swedes and other Scandinavians, to describe their experiences. Contact: Schocken Books, 62 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003.

NEWS ITEMS

The attention of interested researchers should be called to the Karl Gösta Gilstring Collection, which since the end of 1986 has been deposed at Dialekt-och folkminnesarkivet (the archives for dialect and folklore research) in Uppsala. The collection consists of over 72,500 annotations made by Dr. Gilstring, a pastor and later secondary school teacher, over more than 50 years, up to his death in Linköping in May 1986, on Swedish folk life and personal reminiscences, gathered through oral interviews and correspond• ence. Among his more than 700 informants were many Swedish Americans, some of whom he corresponded with for decades. According to a letter from Dr. Gilstring to the editor of the Quarterly dated 9 December 1985, some 65 Swedish immigrants in the United States and Canada had provided some 13,200 notations up to that time, organized into 24 sub-collections (Nos. 87-110). This material comprises a rich source for future research and it may be hoped that Karl Gösta Gilstring, a memorable man to all who knew him, may gain the recognition he deserved as a dedicated preserver of the living past in both Sweden and Swedish America.

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Edla C. Warner of Bishop Hill, Illinois, died on 12 May 1987, at the age of 80 in Geneseo, Illinois. A great-granddaughter of the religious leader and founder of the Bishop Hill colony, Eric Jansson, Miss Warner who was born in Iowa, moved to Bishop Hill in 1962, following a career in the Navy Nurse Corps, bought one of the old colony buildings, and served as archivist for the Bishop Hill Heritage Association from 1964 to 1985. She is well remembered by all who have concerned themselves with Bishop Hill's remarkable history, on which she was herself a uniquely valuable living source.

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