"The Other Swedes"
~ Celebrating Them ~
~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
1976 "Why Lindsborg?"
~ Contents & Illustrations
~ Celebrating Them ~
~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
1976 "Why Lindsborg?"
~ Contents & Illustrations
Cover: Lindsborg and Coronado Heights from the Quarry bluff. Photo by Jane Brunsell.
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CONTENTS
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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Why Lindsborg?.........................................................4
The Salina journal as quoted in the Lindsborg News Record, July 20, 1953 Preface........................................................................5 1 Quotes from Carl Aaron Swensson......................7 On Patriotism and the "Swedes," On Kansas 2 What Was Here Already..........................................9 The "Great State Divide" -- The Smoky Hills 3 Indianerna.............................................................11 Indians! Indians! 4 Coronado, Et Al....................................................13 Quivira, and all that 5 The Swede and that American: 1864..................15 The Swede. The American 6 Lindsborg's Rostad..............................................19 "Page's Grove" Goes "Svensk" 7 Two Shields and an Irishman..............................21 Francis McNeeley 8 Sweadal Conceded to Lindsborg........................25 Major Holmberg 9 Värmlands Ole to Kansas....................................27 Åke Kjelleberg, Grums, Sweden, from Karlstads Stifta Bok1969- '70 10 The Payoff............................................................30 A Main Street, Lindsborg, Kansas 11 Fourteen Years Later.........................................31 (From Smoky Valley News: "Past and Present," April 20th,1882) 12 Getting the Show on the Road..........................34 The Showman, The Show: Handel's "Messiah" 13 The Promotion of Art.........................................38 The First Art Exhibition, 1899 (as told by Birger Sandzen in"Med Pensil Och Penna," translated by Margaret Sandzen Greenough and adapted); The Continuing Tradition 14 The Notables.......................................................41 Messiah Week, et cetera 15 Sveriges Hus.......................................................44 The Swedish Pavilion; Postscript: How It Happened 16 Lindsborg on the Map........................................47 The Kansas Giant; Now We Ask, Why? 17 Bergin and the Billdt Translations.....................49 Alfred Bergin; The Ruth Billdt Translations 18 The Inseparables: Lindsborg and Bethany College.................................................................52 Giant Steps: Presser Hall 19 Prince Wilhelm in Lindsborg..............................53 How Come? 20 Liberated Woman................................................56 Alma Luise Olson 21 The Swedish Festival..........................................58 The Svensk Hyllningsfest 22 The Mills, The Farmers, The Mechanics and Industry: The Professions................................ 60 The Old Mills; The Farmers Unite Mechanics "New" Industry; The Professions 23 Lindsborg -- Someplace Special........................65 Kansas City, Anyone? Well, How About Denver, then? 24 Värmlanningar Centennial................................. 68 Värmlanningar (a representation of Lindsborg's hosting); Touching Moments in Swedish Tour"- Karen Lambert; The Lindsborg Centennial--1969 25 Lindsborg Abroad...............................................71 The Community Expanded; Swedish Dancers; The Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers; Lindsborg Volunteers Abroad 26 Ethnic Values Extended......................................76 A Candid Look at the Swedish Culture of Lindsborg 27 The Spirit of 1976................................................77 One of the Causes That Unites: Restoration of the Old Runbeck Mill: P.R.I.D.E. 28 H. M. Carl XVI Gustaf.......................................... 79 The Young King of Sweden |
Carl Gustav..................................................................2
H.M. Carl XVI Gustaf of the Kingdom of Sweden....3 The Swedish Pavilion in Lindsborg restored and dedicated, 1976...........................................................6 Pastor Carl Aaron Swensson and his wife, Alma...8 Prof. William "Bill" Koch and friend (headdressed Indian barebacked on horse)..................................12 Koch, on the faculty at Kansas State University in Manhattan, is con-sidered an expert on Kansas folklore, especially that of the Smoky Valley Swedes. Coronado's Route through Quivira. 1541..............14 Daniel H. Page and family in 1886, the year he left the Smoky Valley for Texas.....................................16 Page's log cabin built ca. 1864 became the kitchen for Dr. Erland Carlsson's "Rodstad" and still is used as a kitchen.....................................................18 Rostad, nära Kalmar. 1865. Sweden's Rostad near Kalmar in 1865..........................................................19 Two Shields and an Irishman: George and Sam Shields and Francis McNeeley................................21 The Smoky Hill River--provider of water, power, scenic beauty and fun. At the dam on the south edge of Lindsborg....................................................23 "Homberg Castle" at Sweadal. Justice of the Peace Courthouse................................................... 24 Major Holmberg at 56 no longer dreamt of the splendor of Sweadal................................................24 Olof Olson, Varmlands Ole: Founder, leader, educa- tor and pastor at Lindsborg, Kansas 1869............ 28 Lindsborg's Main Street around the turn of the century before brick paving of 1918. .....................29 Celebrating the 4th of July on Coronado Heights, ca.1920......................................................................32 4th of July in Lindsborg. Parade float, ca.1920.....33 Dr. Swensson's scrapbook of valuable mementos belongs to Alba Almquist (nee Malm), shown her.34 The Messiah Chorus in 1939. Photo by "Life" photographer, Herber Gehr.....................................35 The Swedish Pavilion as a museum, home econo- mic lab and Art Pavilion on Bethany College campus......................................................................40 Girls dancing at a May Fest in 1908 at the Swedish Pavilion......................................................................43 Swedish Pavilion at the World's Fair in Saint Louis in 1904.......................................................................44 Portion of base section of the Messiah Chorus, 1939. Photo by Life's Herbert Gehr....................... 48 Prince Wilhelm......................................................... 55 The Swedish Club (Crafts Club) of Lindsborg pose in their first Svensk Hyllningsfest costumes in October, 1941............................................................58 Marshall Carl "Scoop" Elmborg and friend at the 1941 Svensk Hyllningsfest......................................59 The Hagstrom Manufacturing Co (See text)..........60 Denise, Denny and Darryl Shields have close rela-tives in Sweden on their mother's (Larson) side...75 King Carl XVI Gustaf inspects a Swedish Infantry regiment. 1974. Sw. Inf. Service Photo)..................79 Prince Gustaf-Adolf and Princess Sibylla with the little Prince Carl Gustaf, born 30 April 1946. Photo by Sago-Konst, Stockholm......................................80 Crown Prince Carl Gustaf talking with his mother, H.K.H. Princess Sibylla.1950...................................82 The Crown Prince salutes the Swedish flag (1953). Photo by Ilgars Linde.............................................. 83 |
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* These shared selections of the late Mrs. Jaderborg's writings noted by the mentioned book have been shown to her family for approval as of 11-25-22.
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* These shared selections of the late Mrs. Jaderborg's writings noted by the mentioned book have been shown to her family for approval as of 11-25-22.
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