"The Other Swedes"
​~ Celebrating Them ~
​~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~

Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg

​​​1990
​"Two Reprints"
  ~ Contents & Illustrations
​Reprint I
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- Contents -

"Selma Lind" and Lindsborg
By Elizabeth Jaderborg
​April 1980
Permission by the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly April 1980
Pages 129 to 133
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​Reprint II
​- Contents -
​ Swedish Architectural Influence in the Kansas Smoky Valley Community
​​April 1981
​Permission by the Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterly January 1981
​Pages 65-79
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Introduction.............................................................6
The Dugout..............................................................67
Stone House Stone Houses...................................68 
Log Cabins...............................................................69
Parhus and Parstuga...............................................70
A Stone Parhus, The Olof Olsson Homestead......72
The Hip Roof.............................................................73
The Octagon.............................................................74 Church Architecture.................................................76
NOTES.......................................................................78
​Lindsborg, Barbo Printing by Author, 1990...........82
Reprint I

- Illustrations -

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​​​Reprint II
​Illustrations
​Eight-sided church in Lycksele, Sweden
Bell tower on left, a parhus in middle.  Note small onion dome on church, right.  Photo taken 1974............................................66
Remains of a dugout east of Lindsborg, with field-stonewalls.  Origin unknown, but used again during the
​Depression of the 1930s......................................................67
Log house: Lindsborg's first postoffice
December 1, 1869, John H. Johnson, postmaster........................69
Pioneer home near Lindsborg sandstone parhus with no back door. Very early photograph, probably from 1870s or 80s...............................................................................71
The Swedish Pavilion, built in Sweden
for the 1903-4 Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exhibition in St. Louis and moved to Bethany College in 1905.  Since 1969 at the McPherson County Museum.  Note the hip roof........................................73 
The Second Mission Covenant Church
in Lindsborg, 1876-1928. Note the "onion dome.".......................75
The octagonal Messiah Auditorium
in Lindsborg, built in 1896...................................................76
The Bethany Lutheran Church, Lindsborg,
built in 1874; exterior refinished 1904......................................78
​Elizabeth Jaderborg  Alias: "Selma Lind"
​Photograph.....................................................................81​

​Elizabeth Jaderborg
1918 - 2016
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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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