SSIRC Advent Calendar 2022

Here’s a children’s choir Advent song, printed by the Augustana Book Concern. The series in which it was printed was ...

Sven M. Swanson was a writer, farmer, and collector of many things, who was born in Skåne, Sweden but later ...

To help you get into the winter spirit, here is a photograph reproduction [MSS P:339 PH-124] of a painting of ...

The Swenson Center is the archives for the Swedish Women’s Education Association. We hold the SWEA archives for both international ...

From our digitized newspaper collection, this clipping comes from the Swedish-language newspaper, Omaha-Posten in Omaha, Nebraska. This issue was published ...

Do you subscribe to Swedish American Genealogist? This is a journal published by the Swenson Center, full of great content ...

From the American Union of Swedish Singers records (I/O:61, photo 130), today we have a color photograph of E. Jack ...

We’ll start our advent calendar with some local history! This plaque [MSS P:10 O 48] was given to Birger Swenson ...

Here’s a Hosianna for Advent Sunday, published by Kyrkosången in Minneapolis, MN in 1906. For more information about our sheet ...

Happy first night of Hanukkah! 

The Swedish government recognizes five official national minority populations: Sámi, Swedish Finns, Tornedalers, Roma, and Jews. ...

Happy Lucia Day! We hope you enjoy these photographs of the Scandinavian Studies program at Augustana’s 2021 Lucia Celebration in ...

Looking for something fun to do on snow days? Check out the many Christmas-y books available in the Swenson Center’s ...

Another sample from our digitized newspaper collection! Here’s a front page of a Swedish-language newspaper, Svenska-folkets Tidning, published in Minneapolis ...

Here’s a Christmas greeting from the Charlotte Ödman postcard collection [MSS P:251]. The postcards were received by Charlotte Ödman from ...

Is there anything more fun than dogs in snow? Here’s a photo from the Allan Kastrup collection regarding the Swedish ...

From the Scandinavian American Portrait Collection, here is a sketch of the Gloria Dei Church in Philadelphia, PA [MSS P:339 ...

Here’s a cover for a Sunday School program printed by the Augustana Book Concern, probably around the year 1900. The ...

From the Aledo, Illinois photograph collection, here’s a great winter photo [MSS P:161 ph. 10] of two boys, Don Lundeen ...

For those of you preparing to celebrate Lucia Day tomorrow, this might give you some inspiration! 

This photograph [MSS P:308 ph ...

Happy Nobel Day!

We take a break from our winter and Christmas-themed Advent Calendar to celebrate the awarding of Nobel prizes, ...

On this day in history…

The Jenny Lind Chapel in Andover, IL was dedicated on December 3, 1854. Jenny Lind Chapel ...

Here is a printed Christmas greeting from Betty and Fred Turner [SAC P:131] summarizing the history of the Bishop Hill ...

Did you know that through the Swenson Center, you have access to over 300,000 newspaper pages from 32 different Swedish-American ...