Vestkusten was an originally Swedish-language newspaper, published in California from 1887 to 2007. It was founded as Ebenezer, a church news bulletin by Augustana Lutheran pastor Johannes Telleen, but it soon changed focus and became a newspaper after he gave it over to editor and typesetter Alrik G. Spencer.[1][2] For most of its run, it was a weekly newspaper published in San Francisco. It was primarily a local newspaper for Swedish Americans in northern California, but also contained news from the Swedish press in the form of special reports.
| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Johannes Telleen |
| Founded | 1887 |
| Language | Swedish |
| Ceased publication | 2007 |
| City | San Francisco, California, United States |
| ISSN | 1073-6883 |
| Free online archives | https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=VEST |
Swedish-Americans Ernst Skarstedt and Alexander Olsson took over the newspaper in 1894, increasing its popularity.[3] After Olsson's death in the 1950s, it was run by writer Karin Person for some time; the association Friends of Vestkusten was founded in 1968 to keep it afloat when Person began to struggle.[4] More recently, the paper was owned and operated for many years by Swedish-American Barbro Sachs-Osher, who purchased it in 1991.[3]
It has been digitized and is searchable on the Internet under CDNC – the California Digital Newspaper Collection – which also contains digitized versions of many other newspapers.[3] The CDNC invites volunteers to proofread to correct conversion errors from scanning and digitizing.
At the time of its closure, Vestkusten was incorporated into Nordstjernan, a newspaper with an editorial office in New York but with part of its circulation printed in California.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Telleen, Johannes". Svenska män och kvinnor: biografisk uppslagsbok (in Swedish). Vol. 7. p. 473. Archived from the original on 2023-01-20. Retrieved 2023-04-15 – via Project Runeberg.
- ^ "Vestkusten". Minnesota Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2023-04-17. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ a b c Thorsell, Elisabeth (2015-06-01). "Vestkusten is now digitized!". Swedish American Genealogist. 35 (2).
- ^ The Swedish-American Historical Quarterly. 58–59. Swedish Pioneer Historical Society: 207–209. 2007.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Nordstjernan". Minnesota Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
External links
edit- Vestkusten – California Digital Newspaper Collection