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Professors and wives living on campus with the students then created that family atmosphere that still survives today at Bethany!

​Their 1920-1940 Old Main Apartments of Bethany College
- Emil's and Lydia's -
~ Living on campus with the students for 20 years

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See the Deere Apartments on Old Main's 3rd Floor:
#68 & #69

Source: Page 348 of Dr. Leon Lundstrom's 1990 "History of Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"

- Lydia's and Emil's two apartments were up the main stairs of Old Main and to the right* –

- Lydia's sisters Anna and Selma at entrance to Old Main -
note the
Christian Cross
above them

- The Deere 3rd Floor Old Main Apartments -
- note apartments 68 & 69 -

​​Note above
the framed 5 post cards
hanging on the right side of the wall.
Four were from Swedish photographer Bror Gröndal and one from JV.
​Click on them below:

- Their Christmas celebration with friends -
Lydia on left at back.  Emil on right between two ladies.

As a married couple, Emil and Lydia received these Christmas greeting cards from
Mr. & Mrs. G.N. Malm and Mr. & Mrs. Birger Sandzén
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- Christmas card etching of first Bethany Lutheran Church by Swedish artist friend G. N. Malm -

- 1928 Christmas card block print by Swedish artist friend Birger Sandzén -

​​​- 1920 -
- Lydia's and Emil's first Easter living in their two Old Main apartments -

NOTE:  These photographs are part of the "Scientist Emil O. Deere" main section, found the subsection of "Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's                    Photography, 1906 – 1925."  From there they are under Bethany College's "Earliest Buildings" then under ​Bethany College "Old Main" 
              1887 – 1968  and found here at “Lydia's and Emil's Old Main Apartments” 1920 to 1940.

Sources: Sohlberg Deere Estate and Professor Dr. Leon Lungstrom's "E. O. Deere" chapter from his 1990
                History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas 

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