Scientist Emil O. Deere
(Deere & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography, 1906 - 1925)
(Deere & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography, 1906 - 1925)
Eight Bethany College President Dr. Arvin Hahn (1967-1983) called the College, "A Retreat for Learning" and "Someplace Special!"*
Bethany College
"Campus Life"
"Campus Life"
A family like atmosphere was established in the very beginning at Bethany College and continues to this day! During his presidency, Dr. Arvin Hahn* who handed me my Bachelor of Arts Degree on the stage of Presser Hall in 1968, coined Bethany as "A Retreat for Learning" and "Someplace Special" -- and, that is what it continues to be!
Scrolling down you will get a glimpse of "campus life" captured by Lydia's camera as she lived her life on campus at the Lane Hart Hall working as the Dean of Women and Matron of the young ladies of the college from 1906 into the year 1913, while at home in Sohlberg House until 1920, when at home then, in Old Main, as the wife of Dean Emil O. Deere where they lived until 1940.
Lydia's founding the Bethany Campus Association in 1912, the primary purpose of which was to beautify the grounds of the college, was surely motivation enough for her to take the landscape and building photographs.
Scrolling down you will get a glimpse of "campus life" captured by Lydia's camera as she lived her life on campus at the Lane Hart Hall working as the Dean of Women and Matron of the young ladies of the college from 1906 into the year 1913, while at home in Sohlberg House until 1920, when at home then, in Old Main, as the wife of Dean Emil O. Deere where they lived until 1940.
Lydia's founding the Bethany Campus Association in 1912, the primary purpose of which was to beautify the grounds of the college, was surely motivation enough for her to take the landscape and building photographs.
- Couple in front of Swedish Pavilion -
Nina with her beau?
- Tennis in front of Swedish Pavilion -
- Croquet -
- Student at an entrance to Old Main -
Nina, second from right top row
- Custodian behind Old Main -
- Girls taking photographs from the steps of the Carnegie Library -
- On the Carnegie Library and Old Main grounds -
- Just inside "The Gateway" to Bethany on College Street -
- Bethany Coeds at Bethany Park -
- Summer and the Children at Bethany Park -
- Spring and the annual blossoming of the "daisies" at Bethany Park showing the roof of Old Main -
- Bror Gröndal's c1905 Photograph of the Bethany Park and Daisies -
(Tiny Nina Sohlberg left center in pink dress with big white bow bending over)
Source: The Lydia Sohlberg Deere Papers, one of 5 post cards framed together hanging in her and Emil's Old Main apartment.
Go HERE for the beginning of The Bethany College Buildings photographs.
*Source: On Bethany College President Dr. Arvin Hahn Lindsborg News-Record, September 16, 1982.
*Source: On Bethany College President Dr. Arvin Hahn Lindsborg News-Record, September 16, 1982.
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
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