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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

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 mostly newspaper articles from the late 1960s to the early 1970s:

• A letter from the Swedish Order of Valhalla thanking Stephen Forslund for his historical chronicle of the club dated April 1957.
• Articles in English and Swedish from Valhallas Krönika Articles about Valhalla
• Letter from Gilbert S. Schaller to Stephen Forslund thanking him for information on Swedish Olivine
• Application dated 26 April 1957
• Articles about the Swedish Archives in the Northwest.
• Articles about the Wake Island Monument Newspaper clippings about Swedes in Pierce County
• One article about resistance during World War II.
• Articles about historic Swedes in America
• Article about the “first president of the United States,” John Hanson
• Articles by Stephen Forslund
• Articles about using American instead of Swedish in Swedish associations Swedish policies on sex education and equality
• Articles about Sweden
• Articles about Swedes
  -Obituaries
  -Articles about the Vietnam War

The folder contains Esther Nilsen’s scrapbook dating from 1939 to 1941. There are articles about Scandinavia, about Eleanor Roosevelt, Norway under Nazi occupation, skiing and Torger Tokle of the Norway Ski Club. Also there are programs from the Seattle Civic Theater, Seattle United Norwegian 17th of May Committee, and newspaper clippings pertaining to World War II.

The folder contains Esther Nilsen’s scrapbook pertaining to her trip to the United States from 1939-1940. She traveled to New York, Canada, the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Coast, Wyoming, and North Dakota. The scrapbooks includes the meal menus from the M.S. Oslofjord for third class in June 1939, pictures from various cities in Canada, Washington, Oregon, and California, and various programs for festivals, a church, and fairs.

Scrapbook contains:

• Two postcards, one written in Swedish by Stephen to Emma Forslund in Sweden and one written in English by Signe to Stephen Forslund.
• Wedding announcements
• Death announcements
• Wedding anniversary articles
• Articles about Swedes and people living in Tacoma.
• Article written by Stephen Forslund
• Pictures of graduates in 1934.
• Picture and article about Lillian Farrier and Marjorie Johnson

Original scrapbook of Olav Boen with pasted in pictures, postcards, and invitations.

A photocopy of a twenty-seven page typed biography of two Point Roberts pioneers, Dagbjort and Helgi Thorsteinson. Compiled, translated, and written by Runa Thordarson. Also included are photocopied portraits of Helgi and Dagbjort and a photo of their home in Point Roberts from a newspaper clipping (the newspaper cites their surname as Thorstenson).

(original articles are not in scrapbooks)
Svenska Posten 1950, 1960, 1963; Scandinavian American 1950 (Vasa Lodge); Tacoma News Tribune 1957 (Anderson Island), 1979 (Erling Mork, Mark Parker, Tacoma Hotel); English- Forslunds wed 60 years,