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    • The Bethany Artist & the Bethany Scientist: Lydia & Emil >
      • Their "Bethany Lutheran Church" 1869 >
        • ​"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 Augustana Lutheran Synod, 1860 - 1962 >
        • The Augustana Heritage Association, 2000 - 2016
      • 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 friend, Emory Lindquist, and his 1953, "Smoky Valley People, A History of Lindsborg, Kansas"
      • Their 1920s Coronado Heights Photographs and their Smoky Valley Historical Association (SVHA)
      • Their 1936 1873 Swedish Homestead, "The Old Deere Farm" >
        • Their 1873 Swede House
        • A Smoky Valley Swedish Virtual Memorial >
          • 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, Press, Broadcasts & Audiences
    • 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, 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 Handwork 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 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 Art and Artist Birger Sandzén through His Students ​and the ​"Bethany Home Hall Gallery"
    • 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 ... "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
    • Lydia's Travels with Deere 1916 - 1930s >
      • Lydia's California Photographs for Painting >
        • Lydia's California Pressed Wild Flowers, c1930
        • Lydia's Palm Springs Pictorial Magazine, 1938-1939
    • "LYDIA'S WORLD" Exhibitions in Lindsborg, 2005 - 2011
  • 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 Dr. Rev. Carl A. Swensson (On YouTube) >
      • Dr. Rev. 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 ...
        • Swensson's Swedish Artists of the 1890s
        • Swensson's "Bethany College Museum," 1882 - 1966
      • In Memorium**Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1904
    • Deere's Dr. Rev. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1873-1941 >
      • In Memoriam**Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1943
      • 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
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  • "The Other Swedes"
    • "The Other Swedes:" A Continuation >
      • Smoky Valley Writers on "The Other Swedes" >
        • Bror Carlsson & Alf Brorson, Värmland, Sweden
      • Bethany College Swedish Knights and Honored Ladies
      • Chris Abercrombie ~ Remembering Him as "The Historian," SVHA President & His Body of Work
      • Elmer Copley, PhD ~ Remembering Him as "the 'Messiah' conductor" and the ... Easter 'Centennial' Performance, 1981 >
        • Elmer Copley, PhD ~ Remembering Him as "the 'Messiah' conductor" ... for the King of Sweden, ...1976 >
          • Elmer Copley, PhD ~ Celebrating Him -- Bethany Magazine, Spring 1988
      • Arvin W. Hahn, PhD ~ Remembering Him, and “Applauding Him” for saving Bethany College from Bankruptcy! >
        • Arvin W. Hahn ~ Remembering Him, and Displaying the Bethany College Diploma He Handed Me, 1968
      • William Holwerda, MD ~ Remembering Him and His "Svensk Hyllningsfest" begun in 1941
      • The Jaderborgs ~ Remembering Them and Their Swedish Crafts Shop (1946-2011) >
        • The Lars Olaf Jaderborg Home ~ Thure, Hilding & Ester, Einar & Elizabeth Jaderborg
      • The Swedish Lindsborg Builders, where "the other Swedes" lived
Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
(Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900-1925)


Sohlberg House with Parents
In 1904 Lydia’s parents, Andews Gustaf  (A.G.) and Ingrid Sohlberg, moved from McPherson, Kansas, fourteen miles due north to Lindsborg to their new retirement home on North College Street (North First Street) near Bethany College.

​- At McPherson home, just before Lydia's parents move to Lindsborg -
​1904

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- A Sohlberg House Family Gathering - 
after settling in to their Lindsborg retirement home
​1904

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Thus, this home, later referred to as Sohlberg House, became the gathering place for their eight (8) children, the spouses and their grandchildren, and others, providing many artistic and creative photographic moments for Lydia and her camera.

To vary the viewing experience, sometimes these photographs are displayed individually and then in groupings, or vice versa.
- C o n f i r m a t I o n    D a y s -
 1912
The church, like it still is today, was central to the lives of Smoky Valley Lutheran Evangelical Swedes.
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Confirmation days were such important days that professional photographers were hired for the occasion as was the case for the confirmation of Nina and her friends in the above photograph.  Nina is to our right, second from the Lutheran minister of Salina Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church.

- Lindsborg Confirmation Day Celebrations -
on Sohlberg House porch
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Nina is 2nd in row
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Lydia is on right, back row with a twin sister Anna Sohlberg who is behind Nina
On Sohlberg House front yard
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Nina is third in row
- Ingrid Sohlberg reading Bible in Sohlberg House Front Room -
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- After Church One Winter's Day Around Sohlberg House -

- Nina Sohlberg with father Ernest Ossain Sohlberg born in Kosta, Sweden -
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- Nina Sohlberg -
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- Lydia Sohlberg -
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- Selma Sohlberg and the Alma Luise Olson home nextdoor to Sohlberg House -
Selma was Nina's mother, Ernest's wife and Lydia's sister

Miss Olson was "the first American woman" to receive Sweden's highest award for women.
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- Laundry Day in backyard of Sohlberg House -
One of Lydia's twin sisters:  Anna or Ida
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- Fun Times Around Sohlberg House -
Lazy Days I

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Lazy Days II
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- Sohlbergs and Friends Celebrating "Bethany College's 30 Years Anniversary" at Sohlberg House -
1911
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- Swedish American Presidential Candidate and Supporters at Sohlberg House -
Easter 1908

(Note US Flag has 45 Stars)
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So far identified is the front and center Swedish American Presidential Candidate Honorable John A. Johnson Governor of Minnesota  and equally imposing celebrated Bethany Lutheran Church Dr. Rev. Alfred Bergin on the right.  Within the gathering are Bethany College President Dr. Rev, Ernst Pihlblad and his brother Arvin Pihlblad MD, art professor Birger Sandzén and his father-in-law, Eric Leksell,  behind the gathering wearing a hat.  (A slightly different composition of the photograph appears at the top of page 133 from 1965 Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas by Ruth Billdt, daughter of Dr. Rev. Alfred Bergin.)
For Our Sohlberg Home and Neighbor Alma Luise Olson,​ "the first American woman" to receive Sweden's highest award for women, go HERE.

For Sohlberg House with Emil 1916 - 1920, go HERE.
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