03 October 2016

Swedish American Newspapers/Svensk-Amerikanska Tidningar now online

The project to scan historic Swedish-American newspapers is now online.  Swedish American Newspapers/Svensk-Amerikanska Tidningar was created through a partnership of the Minnesota Historical Society, the National Library of Sweden, the American Swedish Institute, and the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois.  Funding for this digitization was provided by the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, and the King Gustaf VI Adolf's Fund for Swedish Culture. Funding for online access was provided by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.  Those researching their Swedish ancestors or local Swedish immigrant history owe a debt of gratitude to these organizations for this new resource.

The collection only includes Vårt Land from 1890-1920 for Jamestown.  The scan is relatively good, so you will be able to search the text for these editions without complications.  It is a joy to see color scans instead of the reverse black and white images of the microfilm rolls that were the previous source for research.



Other older titles will often use the Fraktur style type faces.  Unfortunately the software used to transcribe these typefaces resulted in middling accuracy in the text.  This means that the success in searching will be quite uneven depending on the letters used in the search term.  Researching in the pre-eminent Swedish-American newspaper, Hemlandet (1855-1914), will remain complicated due to that typeface.


















I do not know if there is any anticipated expansion of this project.  Of course, for our area it would be tremendous to also have Folkets Röst available.


This is a partial list of Swedish language newspapers that were published in the Jamestown area:

Folkets Röst (Jamestown) Founded by Olof A. Olson
1874-1876 Owners: Swedish Printers Assoc.
Editors: Norwall (1874), J.P. Haller (1875), Albert Malm (1876),
1877-1878 Owners: Conrad A. Hult and Paul Rosencrantz
Editors: J.P. Haller (1877), J. F. Nystrom (1877-1878)
1878- Owners: J.P. Haller and Gunderson

Published October 14, 1874-1884 : Weekly. OCLC 11669106
Fenton History Center
P <1874:11:25, 12:9-16> <1875:1:22-29, 2:26, 4:2-30, 5:14, 6:11,25, 7:9> <1876:2:11-25, 4:14, 5:12,26-6:2, 8:18-25, 10:20, 12:8> <1877:3:9, 4:6-13, 5:11-18, 6:1-6,20, 7:20, 8:17, 9:7,28, 11:9, 12:14>
James Prendergast Library
F <1874:11:25, 12:9-16> <1875:1:22-29, 2:26, 4:2-30, 5:14, 6:11,25, 7:9,18-25> <1876:2:11-25, 4:14, 5:12,26, 6:2, 8:18-25, 10:20, 12:8> <1877:3:9, 4:6-13, 5:11-18, 6:1, 7:6,20, 8:17,31-9:7,28, 11:9, 12:14>
Patterson Library
F <1874:11:25, 12:9-16> <1875:1:22-29, 2:26, 4:2-30, 5:14, 6:11,25, 7:9,18-25> <1876:2:11-25, 4:14, 5:12,26, 6:2, 8:18-25, 10:20, 12:8> <1877:3:9, 4:6-13, 5:11-18, 6:1, 7:6,20, 8:17,31-9:7,28, 11:9, 12:14>
SUNY at Fredonia
F <1874:11:25, 12:9-16> <1875:1:22-29, 2:26, 4:2-30, 5:14, 6:11,25, 7:9,18-25> <1876:2:11-25, 4:14, 5:12,26, 6:2, 8:18-25, 10:20, 12:8> <1877:3:9, 4:6-13, 5:11-18, 6:1, 7:6,20, 8:17, 8:31-9:7,28, 11:9, 12:14>
National Library of Sweden
1874-1884

Vårt Nya Hem (Jamestown)
Continuation of Folkets Rost 1884-1891
National Library of Sweden
1884-1891


Vårt Land (Jamestown)
Published 1890-1931 : Weekly. OCLC 22447201
Chautauqua County Historical Society
P <1898:1:6-1900:12:20> <1901:1:3-8:29, 10:10-12:26> <1902:1:2-1907:11:7> <1919:1:16> <1920:6:18-25>
Fenton History Center
P <1898:7:7> <1899:12:28> <1906:9:27-10:24> <1930:3> <1931:3:12>
James Prendergast Library
F <1898:7:7> <1899:12:28> <1906:9:27-10:4> <1919:1:16> <1920:6:18-25>
Patterson Library
F <1898:7:7> <1899:12:28> <1906:9:27-10:4> <1919:1:16> <1920:6:18-25>
SUNY at Fredonia
F <1898:7:7> <1899:12:28> <1906:9:27-10:4> <1919:1:16> <1920:6:18>

Minnesota Historical Society
Digital images: 1890 (4);  1891 (8); 1892 (51); 1893 (1); 1894 (26); 1895 (32); 1896 (53); 1897 (52); 1898 (18); 1901 (33); 1902 (52); 1903 (49); 1904 (52); 1905 (49); 1906 (52); 1907 (52); 1908 (53); 1909 (52); 1910 (52); 1911 (52); 1912 (52); 1913 (52); 1915 (51); 1916 (52); 1917 (50); 1918 (52); 1919 (52); 1920 (33).


Skandia (Jamestown)
Published 1903-19uu : Weekly. OCLC 17857509
Fenton History Center
P <1929:2:14> <1936:12:3> <1946:8:8>
James Prendergast Library
F <1936:12:3>
Patterson Library
F <1936:12:3>
SUNY at Fredonia
F <1936:12:3>
Wisconsin Historical Society Archives
1918:Apr. 25-1946:Aug.

Sources:  Moe 1983: 191-199