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Select an item to view an enlarged image and description or to play the video/audio clip. Explore the digitized newspapers, archival documents, historical and contemporary photographs, and oral history recordings that tell the remarkable story of Icelandic-language publishing in Manitoba from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
A full length black and white portrait of a woman standing with her arm resting on the back of a chair. She is wearing traditional Icelandic women's clothing, including a dark dress with an apron, a scarf tied around her neck, and a woolen cap with a tassel hanging down to her shoulder.
A black and white photo of two early 20th-century two story buildings. The building on the left has five narrows windows and large sign reading Heimskringla. The building on the right looks more like a home with a veranda on the ground floor and a balcony on the second floor.
An image of the table of contents of a magazine. The text is printed in one column of black ink with headings and subheads in slightly larger font. The paper is faded with age. There is a horizontal decorative item along the bottom of the page.
An oval black and white portrait photo of man from the shoulders up. He has dark hair combed to the side with sideburns and a mustache. He is looking to the left wearing a suit and tie. Below the photo, his cursive signature is printed.
A dark yellow magazine cover featuring an illustration in black ink of a young woman from the shoulders up with dark hair wearing a hood. In the background there are two small buildings. The one on the right is a church. There is text printed in black ink above and below the illustration.
An image of three printed event programs worn with age. The leftmost program features an illustration of Iceland's flag with blue text above and below the flag. The middle program features an illustration of the British, Icelandic, and American Flags with blue text above and below. The top half of the rightmost program features an illustration of the prow of a Viking ship with fish swimming beneath and trees in the background with red and blue text below the illustration. The lower half features white text against a red background.
Black-and-white photo of the Icelandic and Icelandic Canadian group marching in the All Nations Parade in Winnipeg on July 4, 1942. The group includes men and women, some in traditional Icelandic dress, gathered around an Icelandic flag.
Vintage advertisement for Björnsson’s Book Store and Bindery at 702 Sargent Avenue. It offers Icelandic and English books, second-hand school books, a lending library, school supplies, stationery, and bookbinding with stamping in gold and silver.
Front page of the December 1905 issue of Börnin. The top features a decorative header with a portrait of a man framed by laurel branches and Icelandic. A library stamp from the National Library of Iceland appears at the bottom.
Black-and-white cover of the 1918 periodical Sólöld: Barnablað Voraldar, showing two children with a large St. Bernard dog in a garden beside a birdbath. The header includes an illustration of two children beneath a rising sun and the title in decorative Icelandic lettering.
Cover of the book Saga Íslendinga í N. Dakota by Thorstina S. Jackson. The title is printed in Icelandic in a plain serif font on a textured background. At the bottom is a black-and-white illustration of an early settler homestead with log buildings, trees, and people in the foreground.
Black-and-white portrait of a man dressed in a dark three-piece suit with a light-colored shirt and tie, seated in front of a patterned wallpaper. He has a calm expression and appears to be in later life.
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