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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)


The Smoky Hill Bluffs
(Coronado Heights)

The Smoky Hill Bluffs photographs were taken between 1900 and 1914, while Lydia was at her first Lindsborg job at the Sohlberg Millinery Company and her succeeding job at Bethany College as Dean of Women and Matron of the Ladies Dormitory at Lane Hart Hall. 

They were  mostly of Bethany College students and of Lydia’s niece, Nina Sohlberg, with her girlfriends.  Lydia here, as well, had her trusting subjects take risks to get the right compositions for her photographs.

Early history of this area reveals that the Smoky Hill Bluffs were also referred to as the Smoky Valley Bluffs, Smoky Valley Buttes, and the Spanish Buttes.*  Since 1919 their official name became Coronado Heights.

To vary the viewing experience, sometimes I have displayed the photographs individually and then in groupings.
-  Nina and her friends at the Smoky Hill Bluffs -
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- Bethany College Women -
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- Bethany College Men -
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- Selma Sohlberg and Lydia's Shadow -
Lydia's sister, my great grandmother, stiffly poses
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For Coronado Heights -- One Winter's Day, go HERE

*Sources:  Geology of Study in the Area of the Smoky Valley Buttes, 1907 Master Thesis by Dr. Emil O. Deere; 1965 Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas by Ruth Billdt; 1975 Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college by Dr. Emory Lindquist.

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