Pictures of LongingHaunting and revealing photographs sent home by Norwegian immigrants in America as visual document and collective expression of the emigrant experience Between 1836 and 1915, in what has been called historys largest population migration, more than 750,000 Norwegians emigrated to North America. Writing home, the newcomers sent thousands of picturesAmericaphotographs, as they are called in Norway. In these photographs, the emigrant experience unfolds as