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Title
History of Swedish Immigration in the Puget Sound, pp. 1-107
Date(s)
- 1973 (Creation)
Extent
box 1, file 4
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History of Swedish Immigration in the Puget Sound, by Stephen Forslund, pages 1-107.
This manuscript was written in Tacoma, Washington, in 1973 about the Swedish immigrants to Tacoma, Pierce County, and adjacent territories. It was completed after years of research for the proposed Swedish Archive at the University of Washington. This portion of the manuscript covers the first Swedish emigrants around 1638 through the Swedes in Pierce County in the 1890s.