"The Other Swedes"
​~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~ 
​​​​​Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy

"Through the Lens of B.G. Gröndal: Keeper of His Time"
​~ Selections from Bror Gustaf Gröndal's Photography from 1887 to 1945​

It is with the greatest of appreciation to Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy's family to be given the opportunity to share some Bror Gustaf Grondal's work of sharing images of his photographs encompassing of life events of the people of the Kansas Smoky Valley most of which were Lutheran Swedish and Swedish American, who attended one of three churches:  The Bethany Lutheran Church, The Salemsborg Lutheran Church, and the Bethany Lutheran Church, all of which were members of the dynamic 1860 founded American Swedish Lutheran Synod a dynamic synod which would exist no longer in 1962 when it merged with other independent American formed Lutheran synod formed from other ethnic backgrounds to form the Lutheran Church of America, LCA.  In 1987, there was another equally significant merger that would form the new Evengelical Lutheran Church in America, ELCA, the operation of which contiues to this day of July 25, 2023.


From the ACKNOWLEMENTS it is very important to include this here as well from page 107:  

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The Family of Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy has kindly extended permission to share these photograph selections from her
2013 Through the Lens of Bror Gustaf Gröndal: Keeper of His Time. -- Pending
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Around the Smoky Valley
  1. ​​Harvesting Wheat
  2. Coronado Heights Building Road
  3. Coronado Heights Picnic
Smoky Valley Family, Wedding & Individual Portraits
  1. ​The Francis Johnson Family
  2. The Otto & Emma Esping Family
Lindsborg First Churches
  1. ​Bethany Lutheran Church, 1974
  2. Messiah Lutheran Church, 1910
  3. Dome Church, Evangelical Covenant Church, 1878  

​Lindsborg’s Smoky River
  1. ​​The Old Swimming Hole
  2. Dam on the Smoky, 1872
  3. Flood on the Smoky, 1903
Bethany College
  1. ​Early Art Class at Bethany Academy, c1893
  2. Dr. Carl Swensson Statue
  3. Old Main Oasis of Learning
  4. Old Main at Night, January 5, 1904
  5. Old Main Dining Hall
  6. Swedish Pavilion
  7. Bethany Male Chorus Room
Lindsborg
  1. ​One Horse Open Sleigh on Main Street
  2. Train Bros. and Co. Store
  3. King Oscar Coffee
  4. Eagle Barber Shop
  5. Swensson Park Pond
​Smoky Valley Events & Sports
  1. Messiah Chorus in Ling Gym, 1898
  2. Political Convention in Ling Gym, c1889
  3. Dr. Carl Swensson’s Cortege, 1904
  4. Bethany Church Confirmation, 1904
  5. First Swedish Festival, 1908
  6. Bethany State Basket Ball Champions, 1915-1916
  7. Lindsborg High School Women’s Basketball Team, 1915
  8. Swedish Folk Dancers
Bethany College Notables
  1. ​Presidents, Pastors, Professors' Edward Nelander and Carl A. Swensson, 1887​
  2. Professor Birger Sandzén
  3. Professors Emil O. Deere, 1916


​Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy
​(1927-2017)
Granddaughter of B.G. Gröndal  

​​Bror Gustaf Gröndal
(1855-1948) 
Lindsborg's Photographer
1887-1945
​​​“Dean of Kansas Photographers”
SOURCES: THROUGH THE LENS OF B.G. GRONDAL:  KEEPER OF HIS TIME
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