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Category: The Black Star Collection
Agency: Bilden
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 5 x 7 inches; 12.7 x 17.78 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.042177

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten [in pencil]: Sweden / Educat[ion]; handwritten [in pencil]: 12//31; imprinted: Text Copyright Bilden; typed [on adhered label]: American university-students in Stockholm, Sweden: / Left to right: Paul C. Burnett, Sheevport, Louisiana, is going to / study economics and politics. He has both wife and child with him. / The family rent a two-room apartment. Mr. B. is a veteran flyer, / of captains rank. / Leon L. Marx, Monroe, Louisiana, came to Sweden to "study swe- / dish girls but also economics and history." Wants to be a jour- / nalist. He lives with a family and likes it very much. He is also / a veteran. / Rudy Feichtner, Hoboken, New Jersey, Specializes in politics. Wants / to become a diplomat. Talkingabout girls, he sais: "Have found / two sweethart, one is Danish and the other Norweigian. Where are / the Swedish girls?" / Lela Douglas, Oxford, Mississippi, studies politics, but doesn't / know what she will do later. "Sweden is wonderful - but - I freeze / to death!" / Charles W. Puscaric, Cleveland, Okio [illeg.] [??]oing to be a politician. / "This country is swell, I want to [illeg.] a long, long time."

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: SWEDEN / EDUCATION
Retouching: N