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1. Christensen, Elisabeth Riber.
   Bibliografi over dansk-amerikansk udvandrerhistorie : den
   danske udvandring til USA fra 1840 til 1920 og den
   dansk-amerikanske historie til 1983 / Elisabeth Riber
   Christensen & John Pedersen. - Aalborg : Aalborg
   universitetsforlag, 1986. - 243 p. -

   (Udvandrerarkivets skriftserie. Udvandrerhistoriske studier; nr. 1)
   Z1361.D3C48 1986

   Includes index.
   86-183575

   Exhaustive bibliography of official histories and statistics,
   personal diaries, letters, travelers' logs, handbooks, Danish
   settlements in the United States arranged by state, Danish
   churches and schools in the United States, and ethnic
   societies. A section on Danish-American art and theater,
   Danish-American publications on religion, the arts and the
   sciences, the Danish language as spoken in America, relevant
   journals, archives, museums and libraries.
   
   Complete author index.

2. Danish emigration to the U.S.A. / edited by Birgit Flemming
   Larsen, Henning Bender ; translations, Karen Veien. -
   Aalborg, Denmark : Pub. by the Danes Worldwide
   Archives in collaboration with the Danish Society for
   Emigration History, 1992. - 246 p : ill., maps. -

   (Udvandrerarkivets skriftserie. Udvandrerhistoriske
   studier ; nr. 4)
   E184.S19D195 1992

   Bibliography: p. 210-218.
   93-175137

   In fifteen articles, authors from the United States and
   Denmark discuss aspects of emigration and assimilation.
   Letters from emigrants, newspaper articles and brochures
   created expectations of what emigrants would find, and this
   experience is told in a Danish-American literature
   comprising more than 100 authors.
   
   Settlement in Kansas and in Elk Horn and Kimballton, Iowa, are
   described, and the emigration of an entire community is
   followed in a study of the Strandskov, Bille and Skon families
   from the island of Mon.

   Libraries and archives in America and Denmark are listed and
   described. This is of particular significance because
   documentation is less readily available for Danish immigrants
   to North America than for the other Scandinavian groups. To
   help address this lack there are also numerous bibliographic
   sources cited at the end of each article. Photographs
   illustrate every article.

3. Heinberg, Aage.
   Over Atlanten fra og til Danmark gennem tiderne. -
   Kobenhavn : J. D. Qvist & komp., 1936. - 2 p.l., 7-341 p.,
   1 l. incl. ill., plates, ports., facsims.
   E184.S19H28
   39-13709

   A history of ships and shipping lines that brought immigrants
   to America. Emphasis is on Danish immigrants, but other
   nationalities are represented.

   Detailed, daily on-board schedules and descriptions of
   boarding and of disembarking in the new world give an intimate
   idea of the emigration experience.

   Few passengers are mentioned, but many ships are named with
   confirming facts such as size, tonnage, names of masters,
   dates of embarkation or arrival, and number of passengers.
   Photographs are provided of some crew members, but of
   all ships' masters (most with their signatures). There are
   also photographs of ships, ships' interiors, cabins of
   various classes, dining rooms, passengers at rest and play,
   shipping line offices in Europe and America and departure and
   arrival terminals lend a sense of reality to the descriptions.
   
   Researchers who know approximately when their Danish ancestors
   arrived in America may find ships' names here that will
   facilitate the search for passenger lists.

   A name index includes masters of the vessels and shipping line
   executives.