An Immigration Research Project
Our new book
is now available!
Our newest book, Swedes in Oregon, is now available for purchase. The cost of a copy is $21.99 plus shipping by priority mail ($7.75). The book is filled with authentic vintage photos depicting the contributions of Swedish immigrants to the development of the state of Oregon. Many of the photos are from private collections made available to the authors, David A. Anderson and Ann Baudin Stuller
Watch the video! Order your copy here
Photographs taken by J F Ford in the early
1900’s are featured in our latest book “Swedes in Oregon.”
Those photographs were taken back to Sweden by Herman Olsson
who spent several years working in the forests along the lower
Columbia River. Herman
is wearing a white shirt and dark hat in each of those photos, which
are now in the possession of Unnie Malmén.
The original black and white photograph which is found on
page 74 of “Swedes in Oregon” has been colorized for this recently
acquired postcard published by E P Charlton & Co., Portland.
E P Charlton Co., published postcards from 1899-1912.
SRIO has a new address as of June, 2020:
PO Box 90242
Portland, OR 97290-0242
Upcoming Events
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ScanFair
Dec 11, 9:00 AM PST – Dec 12, 5:00 PM PST
Oregon Convention Center
Do you have any old photos, documents or letters?
SRIO wants to archive old photos, documents and letters that are
relevant to the Swedish immigration to Oregon. We can scan and
return them if you provide a return address.
Contact
president@swedishrootsinoregon.org for details.
SRIO Needs Web Help
SRIO seeks to design a new website! Do you have website design experience? Are you interested in volunteering your time to help SRIO make the leap to a responsive, mobile friendly website? If so, please contact David Anderson at president@swedishrootsinoregon.org
A Brief History
Swedish Roots in Oregon (SRIO) was formed in 1999 when Ross Fogelquist of Oregon’s New Sweden Cultural Heritage Society suggested that a project be initiated to research, document, and preserve the rich history of Oregon’s Swedish immigrants. Due to the extensive effort that would be required for such a project it was decided that a separate organization be formed to carry out the project. It was also recommended that this new group was to be a small, tightly focused research organization unencumbered by the responsibilities of maintaining a general membership. Read more...
Olof Grafström
A Swedish Artist in Portland 1886 - 1890
Olof Grafström (1855 – 1933) was born in Attmar, Medelpad, the son
of a well-to-do farmer. In 1875 he was admitted to the Academy of
Fine Arts in Stockholm, where he became a protégé of Per Daniel Holm
and was considered one of his most promising students. He graduated
in 1882 as an accomplished landscape painter. During his years at
the academy Grafström was a contemporary and friend of Swedish
artists such as Anders Zorn, Bruno Liljefors, Richard Bergh, and
Johan Tirén.
Read more and see the pictures...
Selma Lagerlöf
A hundred years ago, Selma Lagerlöf had an admiring reader in the United States named Samuel Magnus Hill.
He was a Professor of Swedish literature and served as one of the editors of
Ungdomsvännen [Youth‘s Friend],
an illustrated Swedish-American ―Magazine for the Home.
Read more
from links on the Hill page...
Samuel Magnus Hill
Theses
biographical portraits of Samuel Magnus Hill have been written by
James Iverne Dowie and Lars Nordström. Dowie’s chapters were
originally included as two separate chapters in his doctoral thesis
and they describes Hill’s life from his arrival in the United States
in 1868 to his move to Oregon in 1915.
Read more...
Ernst Skarstedt's Biographies
In 1911, the well-known Swedish-American journalist Ernst Skarstedt finished the third volume
in his trilogy of Swedes in the Far West, Oregon och dess svenska befolkning
[Oregon and its Swedish population]. The book covered the period
1880 to 1910, and it was organized in the same way as its two
predecessors – it began with a general history of the state, moved
on to the various activities of the Swedes, and concluded with a
substantial biographical section of prominent Swedish immigrants.
Read more...
