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Love letter from the US
This object is the first love letter that my great-grandfather sent to his fiancé after he emigrated to the US. It is dated to the 22 August 1899. He describes the country with lots of hopes and dreams for the future.
He was an engineer who hoped to find work opportunities in the US. All his six brothers also emigrated. He was the only one coming back and staying in Sweden, where also married his…
Contributors
- Barbara
Subject
- Emigration from Sweden
- Love letters
- Immigration to United States
- …
- Sweden
- USA
- Engineers
- Human migration
- Labour migration
- United States of America
- Human migration
Contributors
- Barbara
Subject
- Emigration from Sweden
- Love letters
- Immigration to United States
- …
- Sweden
- USA
- Engineers
- Human migration
- Labour migration
- United States of America
- Human migration
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Places
- Sweden
- USA
- United States of America
- Sweden
Identifier
- http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/ed56cc50-090c-0136-ab58-2632a80deac2
Language
- en
- eng
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-07-25T07:45:10.155Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-11-03T11:22:04.772Z