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| Keywords: Anti-emigration.propaganda.1869.png Swedish anti-emigration propaganda from 1869 at the height of the Swedish emigration to North America The picture has been scanned from H Arnold Barton A Folk Divided Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans 1840 ”1940 Uppsala Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis 1994 The image on the left represents Per Svensson's dream of America that on the right the reality of his life on the American frontier The pictures originally illustrated a cautionary tale published in 1869 in the Swedish periodical Läsning för folket the organ of the Society for the Propagation of Useful Knowledge Sällskapet för nyttiga kunskapers spridande see Barton p 71 The two images have also been uploaded separately as Image AmericanDream png and Image AmericanNightmare png Public domain by reason of age PD-art 1869 Immigrants to the United States from Sweden Artworks missing infobox template | ||||
