Digitization of 50 Journals from 1877-1931 by Andrew A. Quarnberg
CCHM will work with the Washington State University Vancouver Library to digitize, transcribe and translate 50 journals dating from 1877 to 1931 and associated ephemera. These journals were kept by Swedish immigrant and horticulturist Andrew Anderson Quarnberg to document daily weather patterns, the purchase and sale of trees and their produce, as well as the results of his experimentation with varieties of walnuts and filberts. The first 18 journals are in Swedish and have never been translated. These include the years from 1877-1891 when Quarnberg was a resident of South Dakota. We anticipate they will include information about the selection of Clark County as a new home. Quarnberg was well educated and in 1892, one year after moving to Vancouver, he was elected a County Commissioner. Elements of the journal, letters and other ephemera will relate to politics and his story as an immigrant.