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Swedish Links
  • Church of Sweden:  Svenska kyrkan
  • Cultural Park Småland's House of Emigrants and Glass Museum: kulturparkensmaland.se​​
  • Gothenburg 2021:  Gothenburg 2021 | 400 years anniversary | This is Gothenburg​
  • Karlstad University: kau.se/en
  • Lund University:  lunduniversity.lu.se/
  • National Day of Sweden is on June 6th annually:  swedish-national-day-6-june-nationaldagen      
  • Nordic Museum:  nordiskamuseet.se/en
  • Visit Sweden:  visitsweden.com
  • Sweden: Culture and Traditions: sweden.se/culture-traditions
  • Uppsula Reginateartern: Reginateatern
  • Uppsula University:  uu.se/en/​
USA Swedish Links
For a list of the Swedish Consulates and the Embassy in the US, go HERE.
For the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce of the USA, go HERE.
For the Swedish Women's Education Association (SWEA), go HERE.

Go HERE to "Contact"

(and to a San Francisco Swedish story)

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" H I G H L I G H T I N G "
Sweden

(2016 & 2017 Photography)



Stockholm
with Riddarholmen Church in background

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Uppsala Cathedral
- opened and consecrated in 1435 -
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 Kosta
Kosta Glasbruk Factory 1742

(
Home of "Kosta Boda" glass today)
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 - A KOSTA BODA HOTEL EARLY MORNING BREAKFAST -
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Växjö
Swedish Glass Museum
showing
Kosta Glass
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​The 2017 Växjö, Swedish Glass Museum, Sweden's 275th Year Celebration of Kosta Glass

- while personally celebrating their gifted Sohlberg Kosta Glasbruk portraits f
rom the Smoky Valley Lindsborg, Kansas, Swedish American estate -
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Växjö Cathedral
Founded before c1690
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Växjö
Emigrant Institute
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Stockholm Royal Palace Drawing Room
1977
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1977 Post Card

​The Swedish Royal Gold Thread Embroidery Sampler
c1890s
- Used by creator seamstress Nina Ulrika Sohlberg (1872-1954) of Stockholm for Royal Crown commission work. -
- From the Smoky Valley Lindsborg, Kansas, Swedish American estate,
gifted to the
​San Francisco School of Needlework and Design in 2019 -

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 -- for the story go HERE
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Nina Ulrika Sohlberg of Stockholm, 1892

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All color photography throughout SwedishAmericana is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
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