Sample collection on women migrants at the Reykjavík Museum of Photography below
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Collection: Útlendingar á Íslandi | Foreigners in Iceland (Iceland: 1965–1992)
Description: Photographs by professional Icelandic photographers depicting migrants and visitors arriving in Iceland, including women. Other collections in the archive of around 7 million professional and amateur photographs from c. 1860 to 2014 include images of rural-urban migration, female migrant workers and refugees in Iceland.
Archive address: Tryggvagata 15, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
Reference number: 365 útl
Links: Visit the official museum website. The collection has been partly digitised in the museum’s photo archive, which can be accessed here and is for personal use only.
Contributor: Katelin Parsons
Sample image: Two Greenlandic women arriving in Iceland to work, 8 February 1979. © Gunnar V. Andrésson / Reykjavik Museum of Photography. Used with permission.
