NEW 7 22 2020
Mr. Chris Abercrombie's
~ Chronicling Smoky Valley Lindsborg and Bethany College history via YouTube productions
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The Bethany Artist & the Bethany Scientist: Lydia & Emil
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- "First Swedish Agricultural Company" Lindsborg Founders, 1868 >
- Their "Bethany Lutheran Church" 1869 >
- Their "Bethany Lutheran Home" Since 1907 >
- Their Lindsborg's "First" Swedish Smoky Valley Community Chronicle 1909 and Their "Second" 1919 >
- Their 1920s Coronado Heights Photographs and their Smoky Valley Historical Association (SVHA)
- Their 1936 1873 Swedish Homestead," "Our Peaceful Acres" >
- Their 1940 Deere Home >
- After Lydia ~ Their Building of the Lindsborg Community Hospital, 1943 >
- Their Bethany College Handel's "Messiah" Performances, 1882 on... >
- 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
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Their Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations: 15, 20, 25, 100 years
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- 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 >
- 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 >
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The Bethany Artist & the Bethany Scientist: Lydia & Emil
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Swedish Immigration Story, 1854
- "The Story of the Old Spoon" by Ingrid Anderson Sohlberg & Daughter Lydia Sohlberg Deere, 1937
- Who They Left Behind
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From Sweden with Love Collections
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- The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Portraits, 1867 >
- 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 >
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Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
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Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900-1925
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- Lydia's Art, 1919-1938 >
- Lydia's Art Professor Sven Birger Sandzén, 1871-1954 >
- Lydia's Art Professor Birger Sandzén's "Art Exhibitions" ... 1893-1940 >
- 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
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Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900-1925
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Scientist Emil O. Deere
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Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography, 1906-1925
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- 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"
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Bethany College's "Earliest Buildings"
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- Bethany College "Ladies Dormitory" / "Lane Hart Hall" 1883 - 1899 - 1983
- Bethany College "Old Main" 1887-1968 >
- 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
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Deere's 1959 Interview on Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson (On YouTube)
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Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1857-1904
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- 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 … >
- Swensson's Swedish Artists of the 1890s
- Swensson's "Bethany College Museum," 1882 - 1966
- In Memorium**Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1904
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Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1857-1904
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- Deere's Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1873-1943 >
- Deere's Swensson's "Bethany College Museum" 1882 - 1966 >
- Deere's Bethany College Field Trips -- Lydia's Photography, 1906-1925 >
- 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 >
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Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography, 1906-1925
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"The Other Swedes"
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"Honoring Them & Their Works" ~ The Lindsborg Swedes ~ Their Legacy Listing --\\//--
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- Mrs. Alma Christina Lind Swensson ~ Remembering her as Mrs. Rev. Dr. Swensson, the First Lady* of Lindsborg, organizer of the "Messiah" performances
- Samuel Thorstenberg & Hagbard Brase ~ Remembering them as the "earliest" internationally acclaimed Lindsborg Bethany College "Messiah" Oratorio Society conductors
- Miss Alma Luise Olson ~ Remembering her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden" by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg >
- Artist Birger Sandzén ~ Remembering him for "sharing his art with the world," starting "first" at Lindsborg's Bethany College >
- G.N. Malm ~ Remembering him for his nationally renowned hand-cut Lindsborg stencils, his Messiah Church initiative, his "Messiah" Festival promotions, his art, his writings >
- Dr. William Holwerda ~ Remembering him as "Doc Bill," a city father and loving citizen by Dr. Leon Lungstrom and Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg >
- 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. & Mrs. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering them and their 29 years of dedication to that Bethany College "Messiah" tradition of excellence >
- Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg ~ Remembering her as the founder of the "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers," 1963
- 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
- Dr. Greta Swenson and Mr. & Mrs. Mark Esping ~ Honoring them for founding Lindsborg's “first” "Swedish-American Folklife Institute of Central Kansas." 1986 >
- Ms. Rebecca Copley ~ Honoring her as Bethany College's “first” graduate to become an International Opera Singer >
- Mr. Bruce Karstadt ~ Honoring 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 stage
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The Smoky Valley Writers on "The Other Swedes" ~ Their legacy listing & Swedish American legacy collection
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- 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
- 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 times >
- Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg [Selma Lind] ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, its early citizens
- Dr. Leon Lungstrom ~ Chronicling earliest Swedish American science and mathematics college professors, 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 culture in the earliest years
- 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 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 ~ Chronicling " Where Did They Live? " "Early Residences of Lindsborg, Kansas"
- Smoky Valley History Research Writers Website Designers ~ Their Swedish American Legacy Websites
- Bethany College Swedish Knights and Honored Ladies ~ Their Royal Swedish Legacy Listings
- His Majesty, Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden ~ Honoring him in Lindsborg and at Bethany College, 1976
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"Honoring Them & Their Works" ~ The Lindsborg Swedes ~ Their Legacy Listing --\\//--
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