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@liaizon@social.wake.st  ·  activity timestamp last week

I came across this post that @littlest__freckle works with an called Föreningsarkivet Västernorrland, "which focuses on the workers' movement in northern Sweden" so I went to briefly explore it and came across this poster for the "Elefant-Cirkus" from 1897 that has some amazing
forskarsal.e-arkivportalen.se/

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rtn
@rtn@chaos.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
@liaizon @littlest__freckle Roughly translated too (old Swedish so difficult to use modern language):

Elephant Circus!
At Stenkrossplanen (means the field where they crush stones) in Sundsvall (Swedish city)
From Thursday the 20th of May, at 6pm every day, from 5pm to 10pm. Sundays and holidays from 1-5 and 6-10pm with performance every hour.
Mastodont elephants Topsy and Jenny which will perform 30 different tricks.
At the end: Velociped race! (I think bicycle)
Furthermore a greater

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Marta Forsberg
@littlest__freckle@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
@liaizon love it that you found the way to the digital archive of Föreningsarkivet Västernorrland!! Also warmly recommend the digitalised interviews from the 70’ and 80’, made with workers who participated in the creation of the first unions and workers associations between 1900-1950, fantastic stories! Only available in Swedish though, but we’re working on transcribing them so that they can be translated into other languages.

https://forskarsal.e-arkivportalen.se/index.php/wfpw-a7am-hkz6