Scientist Emil O. Deere
(Deere & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography, 1906 - 1925)
(Deere & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography, 1906 - 1925)
With the exception of the Gateway to Bethany, The Swedish Pavilion ...The Sidewalk, all that Lydia photographed at Bethany has vanished!
Deere's & Lydia's Bethany
~ Lydia's Bethany College Photography, 1906 - 1925
Lydia's World Through Her Camera Lens
With her interest in photography, more than anything, Lydia gives us a sense of the times, the way they were, at their Bethany College. Like Lydia's Lindsborg photography, her Bethany College photography is also historic as the taking of these photographs were begun around twenty years after the founding of the college and are today more than 100 years old.
With the exception of the Gateway to Bethany, The Swedish Pavilion (at the Old Mill Museum) and The Sidewalk, all that she photographed at Bethany has vanished!
With the exception of the Gateway to Bethany, The Swedish Pavilion (at the Old Mill Museum) and The Sidewalk, all that she photographed at Bethany has vanished!
- The Sidewalk -
Still used today by thousands of Bethany College students, before and since Lydia's time, is this path that she walked 100 hundred years ago beginning at the Gateway to Bethany at Olsson and College (First) Streets. Straight ahead is Old Main, hidden behind the trees to our left is the Carnegie Library, and to our right is the Swedish Pavilion.
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The start of Lydia's Bethany College photographs began in 1906 with her new job as the Dean of Women and Matron of the Ladies Dormitory at Lane Hart Hall, a position she held into the year of 1913. This job provided fun carefree subject matter for her camera. With her founding of the Bethany College Campus Association in 1912 and her 1916 marriage to soon-to-be Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Swedish professor Emil O. Deere, her college photography portfolio would expand.
From 1906 her Swedish Bethany College photographs grew concurrently with her Swedish Lindsborg photographs to around 1925.
Covering her photography under this section: Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography from 1906 to 1925, will be the following sections of her photographs:
From 1906 her Swedish Bethany College photographs grew concurrently with her Swedish Lindsborg photographs to around 1925.
Covering her photography under this section: Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography from 1906 to 1925, will be the following sections of her photographs:
Bethany College “Campus from Above”
Bethany College “The Gateway” 1917 and “Bethany Campus Association” 1912
Bethany College “College Street,” today’s “North First Street”
Bethany College “Campus Life”
“Bethany College’s Earliest Buildings”
Bethany College “Ladies Dormitory” / “Lane Hart Hall,” 1883 - 1899 - 1983
Bethany College “Old Main,” 1887 – 1968
-Lydia’s and Emil's Old Main Apartments 1920 to 1940
-Deere's Bethany College Classes in Old Main
Bethany College "Messiah Auditorium"/"Ling Auditorium"/"Ling Gymnasium,"1895 - 1946
Bethany College “Swedish Pavilion,” 1904
Bethany College “Carnegie Library” / “Bethany Library,” 1908 – 1981
Also Lydia's photographs of "The C. A. Swensson Statue and Old Main" are shown under the Scientist Emil O. Deere main section found in sections Deere's 1959 Interview on Dr. Rev. Carl A. Swensson and Dr. Rev. Carl Aaron Swensson as is Deere’s Bethany College Field Trips.
As I questioned and answered in the Lydia's Lindsborg Photography section, I do so here. Why do I refer to the two series as Swedish? When Lydia began taking photographs, Swedish was still spoken everyday in Lindsborg and at Bethany College, and the local newspapers were in Swedish as well. Like all immigrants in America, the Swedes in Lindsborg would not quickly give up their language and traditions. In all America, the Americanization of the immigrant would occurs gradually.
Bethany College “The Gateway” 1917 and “Bethany Campus Association” 1912
Bethany College “College Street,” today’s “North First Street”
Bethany College “Campus Life”
“Bethany College’s Earliest Buildings”
Bethany College “Ladies Dormitory” / “Lane Hart Hall,” 1883 - 1899 - 1983
Bethany College “Old Main,” 1887 – 1968
-Lydia’s and Emil's Old Main Apartments 1920 to 1940
-Deere's Bethany College Classes in Old Main
Bethany College "Messiah Auditorium"/"Ling Auditorium"/"Ling Gymnasium,"1895 - 1946
Bethany College “Swedish Pavilion,” 1904
Bethany College “Carnegie Library” / “Bethany Library,” 1908 – 1981
Also Lydia's photographs of "The C. A. Swensson Statue and Old Main" are shown under the Scientist Emil O. Deere main section found in sections Deere's 1959 Interview on Dr. Rev. Carl A. Swensson and Dr. Rev. Carl Aaron Swensson as is Deere’s Bethany College Field Trips.
As I questioned and answered in the Lydia's Lindsborg Photography section, I do so here. Why do I refer to the two series as Swedish? When Lydia began taking photographs, Swedish was still spoken everyday in Lindsborg and at Bethany College, and the local newspapers were in Swedish as well. Like all immigrants in America, the Swedes in Lindsborg would not quickly give up their language and traditions. In all America, the Americanization of the immigrant would occurs gradually.
The Bethany College Campus
"the way it was"
when Lydia took her photographs
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"the way it was"
when Lydia took her photographs
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Go HERE for Bethany College's Campus from Above
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"Let Us Celebrate Them"
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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
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
"Let Us Celebrate Them"
* * *
Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
* * *
All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
