Pictures of Longing: Photography and the Norwegian-American Migration

by Sigrid Lien and Barbara Sjoholm

Haunting and revealing photographs sent home by Norwegian immigrants in America as visual document and collective expression of the emigrant experience

Between 1836 and 1915, in what has been called history's largest population migration, more than 750,000 Norwegians emigrated to North America. Writing home, the newcomers sent thousands of pictures--America-photographs, as they are called in Norway. In these photographs, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517901995
• ISBN13: 9781517901998
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 8.9"