"The Other Swedes"
~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy
~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy
2013 "Through the Lens of B.G. Gröndal: Keeper of His Time"
~ Contents and Photograph Titles
~ The Sohlberg Deere Portraits
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This was a studio backdrop for many of B. G.'s photographs.
~ Contents and Photograph Titles
~ The Sohlberg Deere Portraits
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This was a studio backdrop for many of B. G.'s photographs.
Contents
107 Pages
CHAPTERS
ONLY
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7 LIFE EXPERIENCES; 19 LIFE IN AMERICA; 31 THE SMOKY VALLEY; 32 THE SMOKY VALLEY and NATURAL DISASTERS; 35 NATURAL DISASTERS; 45 STUDIO CAMERAS / THE STUDIO REMEMBERED; 46 THE STUDIO REMEMBERED / GRÖNDAL'S CAREER; 49 GRÖNDAL'S CAREER; 63 PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN ART FORM / PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; 64 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS / GRÖNDAL HOME AND FAMILY; 67 GRÖNDAL HOME AND FAMILY / AFTERWARDS; 77 B.G.’S TALES / EDITH’S REMINISCENCES; 78 EDITH’S REMINISCENCES / OTHER ANTIDOTES; 93 THE GRÖNDAL FAMILY AND SWEDEN / THE NOYD FAMILY; 94 THE NOYD FAMILY / SWEDISH CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS; 107 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Chapters and Titles for Bror Gustaf Gröndal's Photographs
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CHAPTERS
IN UPPER CASE & UNDERSCORED
92
Photograph Titles
in lower case
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[Comments by fc]
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1 FORWARD by Lorna Nelson, Director of the McPherson County Old Mill Museum
3 DEDICATION 5 PREFACE by Don Weddle 6 Garden of the Gods 7 LIFE EXPERIENCES 8 May Day at Bethany C 1913 9 King Oscar Coffee 10 Swedish Festival, 1908 11 Artist at work B.G. in his studio 12 Portrait of Edith – their first born 13 Building a road to Coronado Heights 14 Messiah chorus in the gaslight circa 1898 15 First McPherson county courthouse, 1870 16 Kansas Photographers Club 17 One horse open sleigh 18 Eagle Barber Shop 19 LIFE IN AMERICA 21 Old Main, Oasis of learning 22 Threshing Time in the 20s 23 Sarah and Bellah 24 Bride Sarah Margaret Noyd 25 Deep in the Heart of Texas 26 1903 Flood on the Smoky 27 World War I Heroes 28 Professors Nelander and Swensson 29 Bethany Lutheran Church 30 Western Amateur Band 31 THE SMOKY VALLEY 32 THE SMOKY VALLEY and NATURAL DISASTERS 33 Train Bros. and Co. Store 34 Dr. Carl Swensson’s Cortege 35 NATURAL DISASTERS 35 Young B.G. in Saint Paul 36 Alba Malm 37 Rosin-Lindquist Wedding Party 38 Ada Poses in Her Bonnet AND Carl Wm. and Paul Peterson 39 Norman Shogren AND Sister and Brother 40 Swensson Park Pond 41 Father and Son 42 Seamen First Class Freddie Axelson, 1944 43 Lindsborg High School Women’s Basketball Team, 1915 44 Old Main at Night, circa 1904 45 STUDIO CAMERAS / THE STUDIO REMEMBERED 46 THE STUDIO REMEMBERED / GRÖNDAL'S CAREER 47 Early Art Class with Professor Olaf Grafstrom 48 Bethany Football in Motion 49 GRÖNDAL'S CAREER 50 First Gröndal Studio 51 1904 Bethany Church Confirmation 52 The Circus Came to Town 53 . . . an Indian family . . . 54 . . . a cane-bearing bear . . . 55 . . . and elephants in motion, repeating the line of tents, with a backdrop of trees on a dry Kansas plain. 56 Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Sundberg 1941 wedding photograph AND Mr. & Mrs. Albert Train’s Wedding Portrait, 1904 |
57 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ferm marriage photo 1926 AND
A Bengtson Bride,1925 58 Swedish Pavilion [circa 1905] 59 Andrew and Matilda Lungstrom Family in 1892 60 Identical Twins 61 Football Scrimmage at L.H.S. 62 Old Swimming Hole 63 PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN ART FORM / PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 64 PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS / GRONDAL HOME AND FAMILY 65 B. G. Gröndal Family 66 Dr. Carl Swensson’s Statue 67 GRÖNDAL HOME AND FAMILY / AFTERWARDS 67 B.G’S Business [Envelope used for Photographs] 68 Joel (Emanuel) Bengtson 69 Bethany College Fraternity 70 Paul Carlson AND Birger Sandzén 71 Sidney Henmon AND Paul Nels Carlson 72 Gröndal Home 1900 73 Newlyweds [Mr. and Mrs. Thure Jaderborg, 1910] 74 Tea for Two [vip] 75 Family of Otto and Emma Esping 76 Bethany Male Chorus Room, Swedish Pavilion 77 B.G.’S TALES / EDITH’S REMINISCENCES 78 EDITH’S REMINISCENCES / OTHER ANTIDOTES 79 Karen Ӓmark Dressed in Morning, 1898 [vip] 80 Political Convention in Ling Gym, c1889 81 OTHER ANTIDOTES 82 Sisterly Love [Marie and Chester of A.A. Abercrombie] 83 Old Main Dining Room 84 Bethany’s State Basketball Champions,1915-1916 85 Boys on a Lark 86 Let the Good Times Roll [Lofgren and Jaderborg] 87 Dam on the Smoky [Built in 1872] 88 Francis Johnson Family [vip] 89 Margaret Elizabeth Sandzén Greenough 90 Poignant Pair 91 1901 Bethany Football Pictorial [art work] 92 Messiah Lutheran Church,1910 93 THE GRÖNDAL FAMILY AND SWEDEN / THE NOYD FAMILY 94 THE NOYD FAMILY / SWEDISH CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS 95 A Bazaar Tableau 96 Dome Church [Evangelical Covenant Church, built in 1878] 97 SWEDISH CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS / GRÖNDAL'S CHILDREN 97 New Gröndal Studio with Skylight 98 Charming Rose 99 Coronado Heights Picnic 100 Gröndal Cottage [with children, c1895 vip] 101 Adoring Groom 102 Professor Emil Deere 103 Swedish Folk Dancers [GN Malm, Nina Sohlberg, c1905] 104 Bethany Daisies, 1904 105 Four Young Maidens 106 B.G. Gröndal 107 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
The Family of Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy has kindly extended permission to share selections from her
2013 Through the Lens of Bror Gustaf Gröndal: Keeper of His Time in SWEDES.
2013 Through the Lens of Bror Gustaf Gröndal: Keeper of His Time in SWEDES.
Go HERE for 2013 "Through the Lens of B.G. Gröndal: Keeper of His Time"
~ Dedication, Foreword by Mrs. Lorna Nelson, Preface by Mr. Don Weddle, Acknowledgments
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A few of B.G. Gröndal's Photographs from the Sohlberg Deere Collection
A few of B.G. Gröndal's Photographs from the Sohlberg Deere Collection
Emil O. Deere from 1904 to 1955
Professor Deere was the professor of sciences at Bethany College,
the first dean of the college of arts and sciences.
He touched the lives of many Bethany College students.
--- Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy:
"Through the Lens of B.G. Gröndal: Keeper of His Time" -- page 102
- Emil O. Deere's Wedding Photograph, 1916 -
- Lydia Sohlberg Deere's Wedding Photograph, 1916 -
Lydia Sohlberg Deere & Emil O. Deere
- celebrating a significant wedding anniversary -
Posing Same Day
A wedding Lydia Sohlberg Deere attended and B.G. Gröndal photographed.
Lydia is standing on far left.
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A wedding Lydia Sohlberg Deere attended and B.G. Gröndal photographed.
Lydia is standing on far left.
- click to enlarge -
Emil O. Deere, Robert Sohlberg, Sr., Anna Sohlberg, Nina Sohlberg
with
B.G. photography signature
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(To stop, press pause)
Emil O. Deere on the right with his brothers:
on the left is Albert Emmanuel and in the middle is Johan Adolph Gottfrid.
The B.G. signature is on upper right corner from Emil, very difficult to see. It is shown below.
The B.G. Signature
1904
McPherson, Kansas
1880-1904
A. G. & Ingrid Sohlberg
Occasion: 50 Years Wedding Anniversary Since Leaving Sweden for America
Midsummer Saturday June 24, 1854,
Bårarp, a hamlet near Jönköpings
(Additionally, 1904 was the year A. G. and Ingrid moved to Lindsborg, Kansas, to retire.)
Their "immigration story" is HERE, by Lydia Sohlberg Deere, their youngest child.
The Sohlbergs
Anders Gustaf Sohlberg & Ingrid Anderson Sohlberg
Twin Ida, Jennie, Selma, Twin Anna
George, Robert, Lydia, Theodore
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BELOW
Posing Same Day:
A.G. and Ingrid with their children and their children's spouses and grandchildren
In Center
> Nina Sohlberg <
[My Grandmother]
Anders Gustaf Sohlberg & Ingrid Anderson Sohlberg
Twin Ida, Jennie, Selma, Twin Anna
George, Robert, Lydia, Theodore
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BELOW
Posing Same Day:
A.G. and Ingrid with their children and their children's spouses and grandchildren
In Center
> Nina Sohlberg <
[My Grandmother]
Possible post card gifts to the Sohlberg family from B. G. Gröndal
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> Nina Sohlberg <
was a model for the black and white photographs found in
"Through the Lens of Bror Gustaf Gröndal: Keeper of His Time"
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[Nina Sohlberg is petite, to center, left in "Bethany Daisies," page 104; and in left circle of "Swedish Folk Dancers," page 103]
(To enlarge, press ctrl+) (To stop, press pause)
Source: "Through the Lens of B.G. Gröndal: Keeper of His Time;" Sohlberg Deere Estate
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