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vernnd
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Posted - 18/03/2006 :  07:35:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

Looking for some recommendations on stories to help me build a vision on what life looked like in Chicago for a immigrant Norwegians in and around 1870

thanks

Paul

Hopkins
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USA
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Posted - 18/03/2006 :  17:01:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Check the book collection and archives of the Norwegian-American Historical Association.
http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/
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Jo Anne Sadler
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USA
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Posted - 18/03/2006 :  18:56:21  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
An excerp from Odd S. Lovoll's book, A Century of Urban Life: The Norwegians in Chicago before 1930, published 1988:

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/911.html

You can buy this book for $10.28 at - abebooks.com

If you live in the Chicago area, a major public library should have newspaper microfilms and city directories.
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vernnd
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Posted - 23/03/2006 :  18:55:07  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
thank both of you for two wonderful spots.
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