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1880 · List3224 — Illinois Iowa and Sweden: multiple studios 1880. Carte-de-visite album containing forty-five photographs a mix of CDVs and tintypes. Album missing spine with front and back boards detached some pages detached and tears to paper good; photographs generally excellent with normal wear. In the mid-19th century social religious and economic conditions in Sweden led to an outpouring of immigrants to the US with many going to the midwest. One locus of Swedish immigration was Rockford Illinois; by 1900 twenty-two percent of Rockford’s residents had been born in Sweden with many more the descendants of Swedish immigrants. Offered here is an album of portraits of the residents of Rockford from about the 1860s to 1880s many of whom are Swedish—surnames include Norden Westerdahl Munson and Nelson the portraits are generally captioned but the handwriting is often difficult to decipher. Many of the CDVs have studio names verso; most of these are in Rockford though several are in Sweden in particular Kalmar and Gothenburg. Of interest to researchers of Swedish immigration to the US especially the midwest. multiple studios unknown