Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
(Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900-1925)
(Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900-1925)
The Hats
These are Lydia's millinery shop photographs which were taken between 1900 and 1906. The name of the shop was the Sohlberg Millinery Company. The photographs are of Lydia's niece, Nina Sohlberg, with her girlfriends in frilly frocks wearing the hats from the shop. These young ladies most likely were going to school at the Bethany Academy from where Nina would graduate.
The shop was operated by Lydia and her older twin sisters, Ida and Anna Sohlberg. The help in getting the shop established could very well be from their brothers, Theodore, Robert and George who was the first to graduate in the Sohlberg family with the first graduating class of the Bethany Academy in May of 1884 who was able to support his sisters and their endeavor the most.
These photographs mark the beginning of Lydia's interest in photography in Lindsborg, Kansas which would end around 1925.
To vary the viewing experience, sometimes I have displayed the photographs individually and then in groupings.
The shop was operated by Lydia and her older twin sisters, Ida and Anna Sohlberg. The help in getting the shop established could very well be from their brothers, Theodore, Robert and George who was the first to graduate in the Sohlberg family with the first graduating class of the Bethany Academy in May of 1884 who was able to support his sisters and their endeavor the most.
These photographs mark the beginning of Lydia's interest in photography in Lindsborg, Kansas which would end around 1925.
To vary the viewing experience, sometimes I have displayed the photographs individually and then in groupings.
- At the Bethany Park -
(Bethany Parkland)
- Bethany College Ladies and Lane Hart Hall in Background -
- On a Bethany Parkland Bench -
- Winter on "College Street" -
today "North First Street"
- On the Smoky River Bank -
Now for The Smoky River photographs, go HERE.
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- Lindsborg Posten Ad -
September 11, 1900
- Lindsborg Posten Ad -
September 11, 1900
- Lindsborg Posten Ads -
September and December 1900
- Anna Sohlberg, Lydia Sohlberg, Ida Sohlberg -
Several years after this McPherson photograph, they would operate the Lindsborg Sohlberg Millinery Company.
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"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
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