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    • The Bethany Artist & the Bethany Scientist: Lydia & Emil >
      • ​"First Swedish Agricultural Company" Lindsborg Founders, 1868 >
        • Swedish Pastor Olof Olsson Immigrating to Lindsborg 1869, June 27th Arrival >
          • Church and Lindsborg Founder Pastor Olsson, 1869 - 1876 >
            • ​"He Gave God Glory" The Story of Olof Olsson, ​1841 - 1900
      • Their "Bethany Lutheran Church" 1869 >
        • Their "Augustana Lutheran Synod," 1860 - 1962 >
          • The Augustana Heritage Association, 2000 - 2016
        • Their "Augustana Women's Missionary Society," 1892
      • Their "Bethany Lutheran Home" Since 1907
      • Their Lindsborg's "First" Swedish Smoky Valley Community Chronicle 1909 and Their "Second" 1919 >
        • "Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas," 1965 >
          • "The Smoky Valley in The After Years," 1969
      • Their 1920s Coronado Heights Photographs and their Smoky Valley Historical Association (SVHA)
      • Their 1936 1873 Swedish Homestead, "The Old Deere Farm," The Peter J. Larson Farm, etc. >
        • Their 1873 Swede House
        • A Smoky Valley Swedish Virtual Memorial - ​"Dedicated to the Memory of the Smoky Valley Swedish Settlements" >
          • Recognizing & Thanking >
            • - Claude Koehn -- The Before and After
      • Their 1940 Deere Home >
        • Emil's and Nina's 1961 Thunderbird
      • 1943, After Lydia--The Building of the Lindsborg Hospital
    • Their Bethany College Handel's "Messiah" Performances, 1882 on... >
      • "Messiah" Performers, Venues & Audiences, Press and Broadcasts
    • Their Bethany College 1899 Swedish Artists' Midwest Art Exhibition
    • Their Bethany College 1902 "Terrible Swedes," Coach Bennie Owen, Their 1903 "Rockar Stockar"
    • Their Bethany College 1904 St. Louis World's Fair Swedish Pavilion
    • Their Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations: 15, 20, 25, 100 years >
      • Their Celebrating 15 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1896. The First Bethany Annual, 1895-96
      • Their Celebrating 20 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1901. The "Forget-Me-Not," 1902 >
        • The King of Sweden's Emissary, 1901
        • Yale University's Bethany Club
      • Their Celebrating 25 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1906, "Souvenir of Lindsborg and Bethany College"
      • Their Celebrating 100 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1981, "The Centennial of Bethany College"
    • Their "I WAS THERE" Coin ~ Bethany College Celebration, 1902
    • Their Bethany College's 1937 Introduction to New Sweden, founded in 1638 >
      • Deere's Introduction to New Sweden
    • Their friend, Emory Lindquist, and his 1975 "Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college" >
      • Their friend, Emory Lindquist, and his 1953, "Smoky Valley People, A History of Lindsborg, Kansas"
    • Their friend, Leon Lungstrom, and his 1990 "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
  • Swedish Immigration Story, 1854
    • "The Story of the Old Spoon" by Ingrid Anderson Sohlberg & Daughter Lydia Sohlberg Deere, 1937
    • Who They Left Behind
    • From Sweden with Love Collections >
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Portraits, 1867 >
        • The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Glass
        • The Swedish Sohlberg Letters
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Royal Gold Thread Embroidery Sampler (c1890s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Post Cards (c1890s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Magazines, (c1940s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Books, 1819/1886 to 1899
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Albums, late 19th early 20th centuries
      • The Swedish Deere Coins -- 1801-1929
    • Lydia Sohlberg Deere's 1927 "Lindsborg Swedish Club's" Handwork >
      • Lydia's Signatured Black Book of Her Handwritten Sewing Instructions >
        • Nina Sohlberg's Child's Sewing "Little Dots" PICTURE BOOK >
          • The Lindsborg Swedish Club's "Allers Monster-Tidnings" magazine, 1940
  • Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
    • Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900-1925 >
      • The Hats
      • The Smoky River
      • The Smoky Hill Bluffs
      • Coronado Heights -- One Winter's Day
      • In and Around Lindsborg
      • Sohlberg House with Parents >
        • Our Sohlberg Home and Neighbor Alma Luise Olson
      • Sohlberg House with Emil 1916 to 1920 >
        • Lydia's Travels with Deere 1916 - 1930s >
          • Lydia's California Photographs for Painting
          • Lydia's Palm Springs Pictorial Magazine, 1938-1939
          • Lydia's California Pressed Wild Flowers, c1930
      • "LYDIA'S WORLD" Photography Exhibitions in Lindsborg, 2005 - 2011
    • Lydia's Art, 1919-1938 >
      • Lydia's Art: The Kansas Collection >
        • The Sketches
      • Lydia's Art: The Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico Collection >
        • The Sketches
      • Lydia's Art: The California Collection >
        • The Sketches
    • Lydia's Art Professor Sven Birger Sandzén, 1871-1954 >
      • Lydia's Assignments for Professor Sandzén >
        • Students of Sandzén 2019 Exhibition
        • Bethany Home ~ Celebrating Artist Birger Sandzén through His Students' Paintings
    • Lydia's Art Professor Birger Sandzén's "Art Exhibitions" ... 1893-1940 >
      • Lydia's Art Professor Sandzén's Exhibition at the Babcock Gallery in New York, 1922
    • Lydia's Sandzén's Body of Work Reviewed by N.Y.C, 1984 "American Impressionism," author William H. Gerdts
    • Lydia's and Sandzén's Swedish Artist Friend Charles Edward Hallberg, 1855-1940
    • Lydia's and Sandzén's Swedish Artist Friend Oscar Brousse Jacobson, 1882-1966
    • Lydia’s Sohlberg Family Connection to Sandzén, 1880-1894-1993
  • Scientist Emil O. Deere
    • Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography, 1906-1925 >
      • 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 - 1980
        • Bethany College "​Bethany Academy" 1882 -- Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings
    • Deere's 1959 Interview on Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson (On YouTube) >
      • Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1857-1904 >
        • Swensson's "Bethany Lutheran Church" and the "Augustana Lutheran Synod"
        • Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings: "The Bethany Academy of 1882"
        • Swensson's Musicians' and Singers' "Messiah", 1882 on ... >
          • Thure Olof Jaderborg
        • Swensson's Swedish Artists of the 1890s
        • Swensson's "Bethany College Museum," 1882 - 1966
      • In Memorium**Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1904
    • Deere's Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1873-1943 >
      • In Memoriam**Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1943
      • Rev. Dr. Pihlblad on Bethany College, 1904 - 1941
    • Deere's Swensson's "Bethany College Museum" 1882 - 1966 >
      • Bethany College Museum Collections' New Location,1966 >
        • Articles on the Bethany College Museum Collections Move of 1966
    • Deere's Bethany College Field Trips -- Lydia's Photography, 1906-1925 >
      • Deere's Swensson's Bethany College Museum Collections >
        • Cliff Dwellers' Pottery Collection
        • Fossils Collection, "The Find"
        • Taxidermy Collection
    • Deere's Dr. Leon Lungstrom on the "Bethany College Museum"
    • Deere's Dr. Leon Lungstrom on "Three Pioneer Scientists of Swedish Descent"
    • Deere's Smithsonian Institution's Souvenir, 1904
    • Deere's 1940 Presidential Address to the Kansas Academy of Science
    • Deere's 1955 Letter to President Eisenhower re Tuttle Creek
    • Deere's Service, 1901-1966 >
      • Deere's Education & Degrees
  • "The Other Swedes"
    • Honoring them and their works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \\/ >
      • Mrs. Alma Christina Lind Swensson ~ Remembering her as Mrs. Rev. Dr. Swensson, the First Lady of Lindsborg
      • Swedish Pioneer Photographer B.G. Gröndal ~ Remembering him for visually recording the history of Lindsborg and Bethany College
      • Miss Alma Luise Olson ~ Remembering her as Sweden remembers her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden," and more
      • Swedish Pioneer Artist Birger Sandzén ~ Remembering him for "sharing his art with the world," starting "first" at Lindsborg's Bethany College
      • Dr. & Dr. Mrs. Charles Greenough III ~ Remembering them for their gift of the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery
      • American Artist Lester Raymer ~ Remembering him as the renown virtuoso artist and "behind the scenes" community supporter
      • Dr. Arvin W. Hahn ​​~ Remembering him for saving Bethany College from going under!​ >
        • Dr. Arvin W. Hahn (1923-2017) ~ Remembering him handing me my Bethany College Diploma on Sunday, May 26,1968
      • Dr. ​Elmer Copley ~ Remembering Bethany College's Oratorio Society Conductor who carried on "that" "Messiah" traditional excellence for 26 years, taking it to new levels >
        • Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the “Messiah” conductor for the Bethany College "Swedish King’s" performance, 1976 >
          • Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the "Messiah" conductor for the Bethany College "Centennial Celebration” performance, 1981
      • Ms. Rebecca Copley ~ Honoring her as Bethany College's “first” graduate to become an International Opera Singer
      • Mr. Bruce Karstadt ~ Honoring him as Bethany College's "first" graduate to head a major national Swedish American institution
      • Dr. Greta Swenson and Mr. & Mrs. Mark Esping ~ Honoring them for founding Lindsborg's “first” "Swedish-American Folklife Institute of Central Kansas." 1986 >
        • Recognizing their Folklife Institute's "Swedish-American Heritage Center," 1996
      • Dr. William Holwerda ( MD) ~ Remembering him at the founder of "Svensk Hyllningsfest"
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg ~ Remembering her as the founder of the "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers"
      • Mr. & Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg ~ Remembering them and their “Swedish Crafts Shop” – 65 years and 50 trips to Sweden
      • The Swedish Lindsborg Builders
    • The Smoky Valley Writers on "The Other Swedes" ​ ~ Their Swedish American Legacy Collection >
      • Mr. Bror Carlsson and Mr. Alf Brorson from Sweden ~ Chronicling Founder Pastor Olof Olsson's missionary journey to Lindsborg from Värmland, Sweden
      • Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson ~ An author of countless Swedish & English publications, newspapers, articles and books ...
      • Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy ~ Providing the only known history on Lindsborg and Bethany College's earliest Swedish photographer, B.G. Gröndal
      • Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin ​~ Compiling foundational Swedish Smoky Valley Augustana Lutheran settlements' histories and more
      • Dr. Emory Lindquist ~ Chronicling Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg [Selma Lind] ​ ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, and more
      • Dr. Leon Lungstrom ~ Chronicling college professors and providing the "only known written" account on the Bethany College Museum
      • Ms. Karen A. Humphrey ~ Chronicling highlights of Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College society and culture in the earliest years
      • Mr. A. John Pearson & Mr. Kenneth Sjogren ~ Chronicling the Bethany College Presidents
      • Mr. Bill Carlson ~ Chronicling Lindsborg's earliest and later histories with a personal connection
      • Mr. Chris Abercrombie ~ Remembering him as the "historian," the SVHA president and his body of work
      • Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist ~ Chronicling key Swedish Augustana Lutheran Smoky Valley settlements other than Lindsborg
      • Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and the Bethany Home Writers ~ Chronicling the "only known written" story on the beginnings of Bethany Home
      • Smoky Valley Historical Association Members ~ Researchers, compilers and writers of " Where Did They Live? "
    • ​Smoky Valley History Research Writers Website Designers ~ Their Swedish American Legacy Websites
    • Bethany College Swedish Knights and Honored Ladies ~ Their Swedish Royal Legacy Listing
    • His Majesty, Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden ~ Honoring him in Lindsborg and at Bethany College, 1976 >
      • Mr. Bill Carlson's Lindsborg's Bethany Home & the Swedish King's Visit
  • Contacts
    • For Lindsborg, 1869, CONTACT Today >
      • 2020 Christmas: "Ljuskröna and Apple Tree Exhibit" online presentation
      • 2020 Christmas; 'Welcome to Annandag Jul Worship from Sunnemo & Lindsborg"
    • ​For Bethany College, 1881, CONTACT Today
    • Closing Remarks & Traveling through SWEDES >
      • The Swedish American Legacy Photographs >
        • ​Lydia's Lindsborg's Photography​, ​1900 - 1925
        • Lydia's Bethany's Photography, ​1906 - 1925
Scientist Emil O. Deere
​​<>  Remembering the Bethany College Legacy Museum & Swedish Curators  <>
The Bethany College Museum was on a par with other American...college/university museums ... having been influenced by the Victorian Era.
"The museum which was largely the result of his [Deere's] efforts has no peer among the mid-western Liberal Arts colleges."
                                                                                                                                                      -- Carl Swenson's, January 11, 1966


Deere's Swensson's "Bethany College Museum"
1882 - 1966

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- A RARE AND UNKNOWN 1990 BOOK ON BETHANY COLLEGE -
by
Swede Dr. Leon Lungstrom
- Giving, among other facts, perhaps, the "only" personal first-hand account on the Bethany College Museum -
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Bethany College Museum Professor Udden's
American Indian Cliff Dweller Pottery Collection
- part of his collection of 300 items - 

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Source: "FORGET-ME-NOT," The Annual of Bethany College, 1902
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- Bethany College Museum Early Swedish Collectors -  *

Johan August Udden,  Dr. John Rundstrom, Professor Lindholm, Otto Hawkinson, George Sohlberg,
Luther Dahlsten, A. Agrelius, Oscar Hubbard, Luther Swenson, Hugo Jacobson, David Bjorn, J. A. Anderson

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- The Bethany College Swedish Museum Curators -
First Swedish teacher professor of Bethany College Johan August Udden founded the Bethany College Museum in 1882.  A self-taught geologist and gifted scientist, this first Museum curator would lay a firm and visionary foundation for that institution's growth to be ensured by its successor curators.

After Udden's departure from Bethany College in 1888, Swede Jacob Westlund became the second curator of the Bethany College Museum for three years, when Swede John Eric Welin in 1891, a professor of Emil O. Deere's, became the third curator until 1908 at which time Swede Emil O. Deere became the fourth and last curator until his death fifty-eight (58) years later, in January of 1966.

By default, then, Swede Leon Lungstrom became the unofficial "acting curator" during the Bethany College Museum Collection move of approximately 5,000 items which were going to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum collection, which at that time contained a collection of about 500 items.


- Their Years as Curators -
Click on these 3 Photographs
Udden                                            Westlund                                             Welin
                    1882 - 1888                                          1888 - 1891                                         1891 - 1908


Deere
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Born in American. Source: Sohlberg Deere Estate
1908 - 1966

Lungstrom
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Born in American. Source: The Cochran Papers
- 1966 -

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Dr. Lungstrom, in 1992, would write about three of these four Bethany College Swedish Museum Curators: Udden, Welin and Deere, in a  Kansas Academy of Science Transaction titled "Recognition of Three Pioneer Scientists of Swedish Descent," which can be found HERE.  Also, for more information on his 1990 book, go HERE to Their friend, Leon Lungstrom and his "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
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- A College Museum at its Beginnings and at its Endings - 
Under Swedish American Bethany College founder and second president Rev. Carl Aaron Swensson, the first organized society at Bethany College was not in the field of Art or Music.  It was in the field of Science, establishing the Linnean Association in 1884!  Later it was referred to as the Linnean Society of Science.

- In Deere's Old Main Classroom -
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- Dean Deere and the Linnean Society of Science members with Carnegie Library in background -
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Source: 1919 "Bethany Daisy"


From page 11 of fourth Swedish American Bethany College President Emory Lindquist's 1975 book, Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college, we read the following:

     "...The Linnean Association, organized in 1884, was the first society established on the campus.  Named after Carl von Linnaeus [1707-1778], the famous Swedish botanist, the organization was designed to promote interest in scientific knowledge among its members and to collect specimens for the museum.  The first leader was first [Swedish American] Bethany College President Edward Nelander.  The corresponding secretary was  J. A. Udden, founder of the museum and first Bethany teacher. "

As the first professor at Bethany College, Udden taught classes in Natural Science and Civics from 1881 to 1888.  In that year, he returned to  his alma mater, Augustana College, in Rock Island, Illinois, where he became a professor of Natural History and Geology until 1911.  During that time he was well-connected to geological survey organizations in Iowa, Illinois and Texas and was a Special Agent for the U.S. Geological Survey.  From 1911 to his death in 1932, his work was devoted to the University of Texas where he became a geologist in the Bureau of Economic Geology and Technology and a director in 1915.  He was the first to suggest the possibility of finding oil on the university lands in West Texas after his discovery of potash in the Premian Basin of Texas.  

Born in Lekasa, Västergötland, Sweden, in 1859, Johan August Udden would be knighted for these American accomplishments in 1911 by the Swedish Crown!
From its "Bethany Academy" beginnings to its "Old Main" endings, the Bethany College Museum's development and ongoing preservation by the other curators must have been due, in part, by the example of its founder, this first Bethany College professor, this remarkable self-taught geologist and man of science, who began to lay the field of science study firmly into the curriculum at Bethany College.  A commitment to teaching science and to the  Bethany College Museum followed by the successor Swedish curator professors and their student collectors, all of whom would grow that institution!

During the Deere era of the Museum's care from 1908 to 1966,  word must have initially spread about it by Deere himself as he was very well-connected with the scientific community outside of Lindsborg, i.e. from Topeka, the Kansas Academy of Science (KAS) (established at Lincoln (Washburn) College in 1869), to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (established in 1848) and to the Ithaca, New York Sigma Xi Research Society (established at Cornell University in 1886).  Correspondence, as well, must have been flowing back and forth from and to Deere with other scientists elsewhere in Kansas and beyond, discussing museum exhibits and new finds during the beginning and into the mid 20th century.

There is no doubt that the 1882 Bethany College Museum was on a par with other American college and university museums also in their beginnings.  Most likely they all had been influenced by the museums of the Victorian Era and were designed accordingly to collect examples of the different fields of knowledge and to classify them for research and display purposes.  This was especially true in developing their "natural history" collections for the students to use.**  And, this was particularly true of the Bethany College Museum.

At its end,  in its preparation for the move, the Bethany College Museum inventory was over 5,000 items which would be added to the 500 items at the McPherson County Old Mill Museum. 
The College Museum contribution would be substantial for the County Museum, for a future opportunity for it, to "stand out," to become, in the words of County Museum Director Tib Anderson, "...one of the finest museums of this kind in the mid-west!"
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- 1965 -

Curator Dr. Emil O. Deere at 88 at the Bethany College Museum in Old Main
(last official Swedish curator of 58 years)

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From Bethanian 1965 Yearbook
- Old Main -
(1886 - 1968)
Last Bethany College home for the College Museum
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Photograph by Lydia Sohlberg Deere, c1920s
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For the Bethany College Museum Collections' New Location, 1966 click HERE.
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* Page 23 of Dr. Leon Lungstrom's 1990 book, History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas
** Wikipedia on Museum, Purpose; go HERE for more information.
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