Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
(Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900-1925)

Coronado Heights -- One Winter's Day
(The Smoky Hill Bluffs)

From the fun warm Smoky Valley Bluffs photographs with college students and family members to those documenting Emil's Lindsborg Historical Society projects,* Lydia concludes with these five (5) photographs in an attempt to capture the stark yet unique and rare beauty of the Bluffs rising from the valley floor on this winter's day, c1923.

To vary the viewing experience, I have grouped these photographs first before showing them individually. 

- Five Landscape Perspectives -
- click on each -

[ I ]

[ II ]

[ III ]

[ IV ]

[ V ]

Farmers today can still identify the locations from where Lydia took these photographs.

These could very well be the last photographs that Lydia took of Swedish Kansas for she had also been developing an interest in art beginning somewhere between 1906 and 1913 when she studied art during the summers at the University of Chicago.  To this interest, Lydia finally became committed when first attending Bethany College as a student at 46 years of age in 1919 and taking classes from Birger Sandzén, the Swedish art professor who began his career at Bethany fresh from Paris in 1894. 

*For the actual history of Emil's Lindsborg Historical Society projects on the Smoky Hill Bluffs go here to ​Their 1920s Coronado Heights Photographs and their Smoky Valley Historical Association ​(SVHA).

For the In and Around Lindsborg photographs, go HERE.

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