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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.

History of Swedish Immigration in the Puget Sound, by Stephen Forslund, pages 108-213.
This portion of the manuscript covers Swedes who immigrated to Pierce County in the late 1890s to 1972. It also talks about the Finnish-Swedes.

Scrapbook contains:

• Articles in Swedish and English from the 1960s
• Articles about Sweden
• Article about Vikmanshyttan in Dalarna, Sweden.
• Article about Domnarvet Järnverk, Sweden
• Article about Smedjebacken Valsvärk, Sweden
• Article about survivors from Titanic
• Articles by Stephen Forslund Valhalla
• Excerpts from Readers Digest
• Articles about Richard Nixon
• Articles about President Eisenhower East and West Germany
• Articles about Swedish immigrants
• Article about Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Forslund’s fiftieth anniversary
• Obituaries

An original scrapbook including:

• Articles from the 1960s and 1970s, in English and Swedish
• Newspaper clippings about Swedes in Pierce County
• Newspaper clippings about Swedish history and its people in Pierce County
• Newspaper clippings about events involving Sweden
• Newspaper clippings about Pierce County and its history
• Articles about the organization “Valhalla”
• Articles about and by Stephen Forslund, The articles by Stephen Forslund are his summary of everyday events and comments on different people in the area.
• Articles about Vietnam, the Arms Race, and army desertions
• Articles about Swedish politics
• Articles about Saint Lucia
• Obituaries