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    • The Bethany Artist & the Bethany Scientist: Lydia & Emil >
      • Their Two Lutheran Swedish Colonies Arriving in the Kansas Smoky Valley in 1869 >
        • Their Värmland Swedes ~ The "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 Evangelical Lutheran Synod," 1860 - 1962 >
          • Their "Augustana Women's Missionary Society," 1892
          • The Augustana Heritage Association, 2000 - 2016
      • Their "Messiah Lutheran Church," 1910 ~ Conducting services in English -- pending
      • Their "Bethany Lutheran Home" Since 1907 >
        • Mr. Bill Carlson's Lindsborg's Bethany Home & the Swedish King's Visit
      • 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," "Our Peaceful Acres" >
        • Their 1873 Swede House
      • Their 1940 Deere Home >
        • Emil's and Nina's 1961 Thunderbird
      • After Lydia ~ Their Building of the Lindsborg Community Hospital, 1943
    • Their Bethany College Handel's "Messiah" Performances, 1882 on... >
      • Handel's "Messiah" & Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" ~ Described for viewers unfamiliar with these oratorios
      • "Messiah" Performers, Venues & Audiences, Press and Broadcasts
      • Special 20th Century "Messiah" Performances
    • 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 Bethany College's 1937 Introduction to New Sweden, founded in 1638 >
      • Deere's Introduction to New Sweden
  • 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
  • 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 as Bethany Academy Lane Hart Lady Principal and Sewing Instructor 1906 - 1913 -- pending >
      • 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
    • 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 "Palm Springs Magazine " 1938-39
    • 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 & 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 Field Trips
      • 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"
        • Olsson's Influence, the Swenssons,' the Musicians' and Singers,' "Messiah," 1882 on … >
          • Thure Olof Jaderborg ~ One Lindsborg "Messiah" Commitment from 1901-1954
        • 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 to 1966 ~ Dr. Leon Lungstrom >
      • The 1966 Bethany College Museum Collections Move to the Old Mill Museum ~ Dr. Leon Lungstrom's Role >
        • Articles on the Bethany College Museum Collections Move of 1966
      • Deere's Swensson's Bethany College Museum Collections ~ to 1966 >
        • Cliff Dwellers' Pottery Collection ~ from Old Main to Sandzén Memorial Art Gallery, 1966
        • Fossils Collection ~ from Old Main to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, 1966
        • Taxidermy Collection ~ from Old Main to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, 1966
      • Dr. Lungstrom's Bethany College "Museum" Chapter
      • Dr. Lungstrom's "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 Deere Papers of 67 Years at Bethany College -- pending
    • The Deere's Library ~ What remains of 2,000 books -- pending project
  • "The Other Swedes"
    • Honoring Them and Remembering Them >
      • Mrs. Alma Christina Lind Swensson ~ Remembering her as Mrs. Rev. Dr. Swensson, the First Lady* of Lindsborg, organizer of the "Messiah" performances, by Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
      • ​Samuel Thorstenberg & Hagbard Brase ~ Remembering them as the "earliest" internationally acclaimed Lindsborg Bethany College "Messiah" Oratorio Society conductors
      • B.G. Gröndal ~ Remembering him and his photography in the earliest years of Lindsborg and Bethany College -- pending
      • Miss Alma Luise Olson ~ Remembering her as "First Honored American Woman, by Sweden," by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg >
        • ​​Miss Alma Luise Olson ~ Remembering her and the extraordinary life she led at home and abroad, ​by Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
      • 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 & much more -- pending
      • G..N. Malm ​~ Lindsborg's "Renaissance Man" remembered by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
      • G.N. Malm ​~ Lindsborg's "Renaissance Man" remembered by Dr. Emory Lindquist >
        • G.N. Malm ~ Remembering him, for all that he did for Lindsborg, Bethany College "Messiah" Performances, Bethany and Messiah Lutheran Churches and so much more
        • G.N. Malm ​~ Lindsborg's "Renaissance Man" remembered by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
      • Dr. William Holwerda ~ Remembering him as "Doc Bill," a city father and loving citizen, by Dr. Leon Lungstrom and Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg >
        • "Svensk Hyllningsfest" ​ ~ Remembering Dr. William Holwerda as a founder and "the key" organizer in 1941
        • Dr. William Holwerda ~ Remembering their family doctor and Messiah Lutheran Church tributes to him by Dr. Leon Lungstrom
      • Artist Lester Raymer ~ Remembering him as the renowned 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 ~ Remembering him handing me my Bethany College Diploma on Sunday, May 26, 1968
      • Dr. ​& Mrs. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering them and their 29 years of dedication to that Bethany College "Messiah" tradition of excellence >
        • Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the “Messiah” conductor for the Bethany College "Swedish King’s," Carl XVI Gustaf's, performance, 1976 >
          • Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the "Messiah" conductor for the Bethany College "Centennial Celebration” performance, 1981
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg ~ Remembering her as the founder of the "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers," 1963, by Mr. Chris Abercrombie
      • Mr. & Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg ~ Remembering them and their “Swedish Crafts Shop” of 65 years and 50 trips to Sweden
      • The Swedish Lindsborg Builders ~ Remembering them for the lovely homes they built
      • Mr. Chris Abercrombie ~ Remembering him for "first" shining an international light on Lindsborg and Bethany College, via YouTube
      • Dr. Greta Swenson and Mr. & Mrs. Mark Esping ~ Remembering them for founding Lindsborg's “first” "Swedish-American Folklife Institute of Central Kansas," 1986 >
        • Remembering their Lindsborg's Folklife Institute's "Swedish-American Heritage Center," 1996
      • Ms. Rebecca Copley ~ Remembering her as Bethany College's “first” graduate to become an International Concert & Opera Soprano >
        • Ms. Rebecca Copley "International Concert and Opera Soprano" ​~ The REVIEWS
      • Mr. Bruce Karstadt ~ Remembering him as a Bethany College graduate for heading up a major national Swedish American institution
      • Dr. Mark Lucas ~ Messiah conductor bringing the Lindsborg “Oberammergau of the Plains" to a "new" world audience
    • Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers >
      • Rev. Bror Carlsson and Mr. Alf Brorson from Sweden ~ Tracing Värmland's Rev. Olof Olsson's church life in Sweden and in Swedish America with the Augustana Lutheran Synod
      • Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson ~ Author of countless Swedish & English publications, newspapers articles & books for local, national & European readers
      • Bethany Church, Bethany College, Augustana Synod Writers ​~ Remembering Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson and Rev. Dr. Ernst Frederick Pihlblad
      • ​​​Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy ~ ​Chronicling Lindsborg Photographer Swede B.G. Gröndal, 1887 -1945 -- pending
      • Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin ​~ Compiling foundational Swedish Smoky Valley Augustana Lutheran settlements' histories and more
      • Dr. Emory K. Lindquist ~ Chronicling Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College from their earliest time >
        • 1953 "Smoky Valley People, A History of Lindsborg, Kansas" -- pending
        • 1975 "Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college" -- pending
        • 1993 "Birger Sandzén, An Illustrated Biography" -- pending
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg [Selma Lind] ​ ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, its early citizens -- revising >
        • 1965 "Lindsborg On Record" ~ Contents & Illustrations Lists
        • 1967 "Living in Lindsborg and Other Possibilities" ~ Contents & Illustrations Lists
        • 1973 "Talk About Lindsborg" ~ Contents & Illustrations Lists
        • 1976 "Why Lindsborg?" ~ Contents & Illustrations Lists
        • ​1990 "Two Reprints" ~ Contents & Illustrations Lists
      • Dr. Leon Lungstrom ~ His 1990 "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas" ~ chronicling the professors' college years​ ​, & more -- revising >
        • Table of Contents
        • Bethany College AKA College History Concerning the Natural Sciences and Mathematics --- pending project
        • Tabulation of Teachers and Assistants in Natural Sciences and Mathematics
        • Museum
        • Old Main Building & Nelson Science Hall -- pending project
        • Bethany College Catalogue Covers -- pending project
        • References from: Lindsborg News-Record;" "Bethany Messenger;" "Bethany Daisy" &/OR "Bethanian;" "Bethany Magazine" -- pending project
      • Ms. Karen A. Humphrey ~ Chronicling highlights of Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College culture in the earliest years >
        • 2012 "Grace, Faith and the Power of Singing: The Alma Christina Lind Swensson Story" ~ Contents & Illustrations Lists
      • Mr. A. John Pearson & Mr. Kenneth Sjogren ~ Chronicling the Bethany College Presidents from 1882 to 2016
      • 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 Swedish Augustana Lutheran Smoky Valley Freemont and Salemsborg settlements neighboring Lindsborg -- to be revised >
        • 1994 "Pioneer Cross: Swedish Settlements Along the Smoky Hill Bluffs" ~ Contents & Illustrations Lists
      • Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and the Bethany Home Writers ~ Chronicling the "only known" Smoky Valley story on Bethany Home since 1907
      • Smoky Valley Historical Association Members ~ Chronicling " Where Did They Live? " "Early Residences of Lindsborg, Kansas"
    • Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The ​Smoky Valley History Research Writers Website Designers
    • Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The ​Bethany College Swedish Knights and Honored Ladies
    • Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ ​Lindsborg & Bethany College "Swedes," Hosting & Honoring King of Sweden, His Majesty, Carl XVI Gustaf, 1976
    • Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ Their Bethany College Graduates in Augustana Lutheran Synod World Mission Work, 1894-1962 -- pending
    • Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ Lindsborg & Bethany College Missionaries and Travelers -- pending
  • Contacts
    • For 1869 Lindsborg CONTACT Today >
      • The Swedish Crown Restaurant" from 1966 to 2019 ~ Remembering its owners and its Swedish fare --pending project
    • ​For 1881 Bethany College CONTACT Today >
      • Their "I WAS THERE" Coin ~ Bethany College 21st Year Celebration, 1902
    • For 1957 Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery CONTACT Today >
      • Introducing Lindsborg Artist Birger Sandzén ~ Joshua Hassel's 2010 "Sandzén: 'Ecstasy of Color'"
    • Closing Remarks & Traveling through SWEDES ~ The Table of Contents >
      • SWEDES' Swedish American Legacy Photographs >
        • ​Lydia's Lindsborg Photography​, ​1900 - 1925 >
          • Lydia's Bethany College Photography, ​1906 - 1925
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