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<titleproper encodinganalog="Title">Inventory of the America Letters, Varsinais Suomi Collection, 1885-1960.</titleproper>
<author encodinganalog="Contributor">Finding aid created by Immigration History Research Center staff, March 24, 1987</author>
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<date encodinganalog="Date">January 14, 2004</date>
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<addressline>Minneapolis, MN 55455</addressline>
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<corpname encodinganalog="110">America Letters: Varsinais Suomi (Finland), 1885-1960.</corpname>
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<unittitle encodinganalog="245$a" label="Title: ">America Letters, Varsinais Suomi Collection,</unittitle>
<unitdate encodinganalog="245$f" type="inclusive" label="Dates: " normal="1885/1960">1885-1960</unitdate>
<repository encodinganalog="852$a" label="Repository: ">University of Minnesota Libraries. <subarea>Immigration History Research Center [ihrc]</subarea></repository>
<physdesc><extent encodinganalog="300" label="Quantity: ">16 microfilm reels.</extent></physdesc>
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<language encodinganalog="041" langcode="fin">Mainly in Finnish.</language></langmaterial></did>
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<head>Organization/Arrangement: </head>
<p>Arranged alphabetically by town.</p>
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<head>Scope and Content</head>
<p>The America Letters, Varsinais Suomi (Finland), collection (1885-1960) contains 4,000 letters written by Finnish immigrants in the United States to relatives and friends in the Varsinais Suomi area of Finland.</p>
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<p>Inventory available.</p>
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<p>Two related collections at the IHRC: America Letters, Etela-Pohjanmaa (Finland), 1890-1960 and America Letters, Satakunta (Finland), 1880-1964.</p>
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<head>Index Terms</head>
<p>This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings. </p>
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<subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Finnish Americans--Personal narratives--1885-1960.</subject>
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