Item title reads - Vikings. Swedes celebrate colony founding.
Wilmington, Delaware. America (USA). (LNER).
L/S of liner sailing along towards Delaware. M/S's of Crown Princess Louise and her stepson Crown Prince Bertil of Sweden onboard. M/S as they prepare to leave the ship, he waves...
Item title reads - Vikings. Swedes celebrate colony founding.
Wilmington, Delaware. America (USA). (LNER).
L/S of liner sailing along towards Delaware. M/S's of Crown Princess Louise and her stepson Crown Prince Bertil of Sweden onboard. M/S as they prepare to leave the ship, he waves to camera. Various shots of a monument in Wilmington commemorating the first Swedish and Finnish colony in America 300 years ago.
M/S as the royal party walks ashore. L/S as Prince Bertil makes a speech about the monument. L/S of people watching. M/S of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt making speech thanking him for the contribution the Swedish and Finnish settlers have made.
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