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East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 6, May, 1945 (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 6, May, 1945

An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, reporting the names and locations of 19 East Sweden area servicemen; describing area V-E Day services; commentating on food shortages while also reporting that more than 1200 disobedient prisoners of war have been placed on bread and water for more than a week and "are put to work gardening to raise their own food in part"; providing a local calendar of events; and characterizing the Germans as self-styled "godless supermen" who forgot that the nations they attacked would "rise with vehemence in defense of their righteous principles" as should all Christians striving to have a "VS Day" (Victory in the Soul.)
Date: May 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Souvenir Card for Hanson School] (open access)

[Souvenir Card for Hanson School]

Souvenir card for Hanson School District 21 of McCulloch Co. Texas, featuring a picture of an unidentified woman on the front card, and listings of teachers, school board members, and pupils on the second card.
Date: May 28, 1920
Creator: Hanson School District
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Nilsson/Nelsin Family Biographical Notes, May 11, 1989] (open access)

[Nilsson/Nelsin Family Biographical Notes, May 11, 1989]

A biographical account of the Nilsson/Nelin family that includes information about the family after sister Klara and brothers Carl John Eric arrived in America, as well as information copied from tombstones in the Vargy Chapel Cemetery during a visit by Cecil R. Nelin.
Date: May 11, 1989
Creator: Nelin, Cecil R.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[C. J. Nelin's Order of Final Naturalization] (open access)

[C. J. Nelin's Order of Final Naturalization]

A partial list or Manifest for the S.S. ADRIATIC, signed by J. W. Jennings, Master, after the ship arrived at the Port of New York, N.Y., on 1881-05-28 lists 29-years-old Carl J. Nelin as a steerage passenger along with many other Swedish emigrants and shows his occupation as "Laborer."
Date: May 28, 1881
Creator: Marcott, Ruth Nelin
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter From Alan H. Winquist to Carlton Lundgren, May 28, 1983] (open access)

[Letter From Alan H. Winquist to Carlton Lundgren, May 28, 1983]

Letter from Alan H. Winquist to Carlton Lundgren discussing an inscription in Lundgren's family bible which he had asked Winquist to translate. The letter also mentions a newspaper article in the Brady Herald featuring Winquist.
Date: May 28, 1983
Creator: Winquist, Alan H.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History