{"id":19675,"date":"2026-03-19T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kulturparkensmaland.se\/?p=19675"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:54:14","slug":"hooverville-exhibition-vaxjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturparkensmaland.se\/en\/hooverville-exhibition-vaxjo\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooverville \u2013 A Forgotten History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"343\"><strong data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"98\">\u201cHooverville\u201d<\/strong> was the name given to the shanty towns that emerged in American cities during the Great Depression of the 1930s \u2014 a reference to President <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Herbert Hoover<\/span><\/span> and the policies widely believed to have contributed to the crisis.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"343\"><!--more-->On 11 April, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The House of Emigrants<\/span><\/span> in <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">V\u00e4xj\u00f6<\/span><\/span> opens the exhibition <em data-start=\"458\" data-end=\"537\">Hooverville \u2013 a forgotten history: Nordic Immigrants in the Shantytowns of Seattle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"540\" data-end=\"887\">In 1930, around 10,000 Swedish-born people lived in <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Seattle<\/span><\/span>. When the Depression struck, the city was hit hard: demand for timber, ships and aircraft declined, and unemployment rose to 25 percent. Unemployed forestry and agricultural workers\u2014many from Sweden, Norway and Finland\u2014moved into the city in search of work.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"889\" data-end=\"1100\">This exhibition highlights a lesser-known aspect of migration. Instead of the familiar success stories, it turns attention to Nordic emigrants who lived in Seattle\u2019s shanty towns\u2014in the shadow of the Depression.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1102\" data-end=\"1445\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The exhibition is written by historian <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Hans Wallengren<\/span><\/span>, associate researcher and docent in history at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Lund University<\/span><\/span>, together with author <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ola Larsmo<\/span><\/span>. It is produced by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">The Swedish Emigrant Institute<\/span><\/span> in collaboration with the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">National Nordic Museum<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHooverville\u201d was the name given to the shanty towns that emerged in American cities during the Great Depression of the 1930s \u2014 a reference to President Herbert Hoover and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hooverville \u2013 A Forgotten History - Kulturparken Sm\u00e5land<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hooverville exhibition V\u00e4xj\u00f6 highlights Nordic emigrants in Seattle\u2019s shanty towns during the Great Depression. 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