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.

*(Note that the Smoky Hill Bluffs were also referred to as the Smoky Valley Bluffs, Smoky Valley Buttes, Spanish Buttes and, yet, since 1919 their official name became Coronado Heights.)

To view these photographs, sometimes I have displayed them individually and then in groupings to vary the viewing experience.

-  Nina and her friends at the Smoky Hill Bluffs -

- Bethany College Women -

- Bethany College Men -

- Selma Sohlberg and Lydia's Shadow -
Lydia's sister, my great grandmother, stiffly poses

For Coronado Heights' -- One Winter's Day, go HERE

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