Emigrating

TITLE: Farewell to home--emigrants bound for England and America--
on steamer at Göteborg, Sweden
CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1905.
CREATOR: Underwood & Underwood.

Mr Hepburns picture "Clock" made me think of how over a million people
emigrated from Sweden to America during the last half of the 19th century
and the first decades of the 20th century. Only between 1887-1892 over
250 000 people emigrated from Sweden. They landed in New York and many
moved on westwards.

Sweden had a population of just 4, 8 million in 1890 and most of the
people who left were young, so this was a major historic event.