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Their 1919 Lindsborg Historical Society's "Coronado Heights"
~ Emil's 1907 thesis* and Lydia's photographs
* ~ "Geology of Study in the Area of the Smoky Valley Buttes" for his master's degree from Bethany in 1907 ~
~ Emil's 1907 thesis* and Lydia's photographs
* ~ "Geology of Study in the Area of the Smoky Valley Buttes" for his master's degree from Bethany in 1907 ~
Like today, as it was in the earliest years of the Kansas Smoky Valley, Coronado Heights has always been a source of curiosity, interest and enjoyment to all residents and visitors.
It certainly was of interest to Bethany College student and professor Emil O. Deere, whose career of teaching would center on biology and geology, not to mention his myriad top-level administrative positions. Thus, he spent much time at Coronado Heights before 1907 particularly to study these Smoky Hills as they were formerly called. This he did to write his thesis of "Geology of Study in the Area of the Smoky Valley Buttes" for his master's degree from Bethany in 1907. During his teaching career which surpassed 50 years, field trips were always part of his curriculum for both biology and geology.
In addition, he certainly would have been a key person and resource in organizing the Lindsborg Historical Society and the projects as laid out by the charter leaders of which he was one, concerning the Smoky Hill, as Coronado Heights was referred to then when they established the Society on July 25, 1919.
As well, Coronado Heights was just as captivating to Lydia, his wife-to-be in 1916, for their beauty and artistic and fun reasons. Hence, she took many photographs of them with posing relatives and students, and sketched and painted them. Later, her photographs would be to document all the work done on them by the Lindsborg Historical Society for her husband Emil who was the Society's "first" board member vice president.
These Coronado Heights photographs of Lydia's were discovered, like her others, in the Sohlberg Deere Estate, and their images are shown elsewhere in a curated display in SWEDES. However, some of them are shown here as well.
To proceed to the next section, go here to
The 1919 formation of the "Lindsborg Historical Society" ~ The Smoky Hills' "Smoky Hill" christened "Coronado Heights" May 8, 1924.
To this, the succeeding sections will be:
G. N. Malm's role in the development of the Lindsborg Historical Society and Coronado Heights ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist;
Lindsborg Historical Society and Coronado Heights History ~ Three (3) accounts by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg, former SVHA secretary and historian
Bill Carlson, SVHA member and historian reports on Coronado Heights history in his 2011
"Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now" Part 1 and Part 2;
and
"Coronado Expedition Chain Mail and Bethany College Museum" History ~ An account in Dr. Lungstrom's book.
It certainly was of interest to Bethany College student and professor Emil O. Deere, whose career of teaching would center on biology and geology, not to mention his myriad top-level administrative positions. Thus, he spent much time at Coronado Heights before 1907 particularly to study these Smoky Hills as they were formerly called. This he did to write his thesis of "Geology of Study in the Area of the Smoky Valley Buttes" for his master's degree from Bethany in 1907. During his teaching career which surpassed 50 years, field trips were always part of his curriculum for both biology and geology.
In addition, he certainly would have been a key person and resource in organizing the Lindsborg Historical Society and the projects as laid out by the charter leaders of which he was one, concerning the Smoky Hill, as Coronado Heights was referred to then when they established the Society on July 25, 1919.
As well, Coronado Heights was just as captivating to Lydia, his wife-to-be in 1916, for their beauty and artistic and fun reasons. Hence, she took many photographs of them with posing relatives and students, and sketched and painted them. Later, her photographs would be to document all the work done on them by the Lindsborg Historical Society for her husband Emil who was the Society's "first" board member vice president.
These Coronado Heights photographs of Lydia's were discovered, like her others, in the Sohlberg Deere Estate, and their images are shown elsewhere in a curated display in SWEDES. However, some of them are shown here as well.
To proceed to the next section, go here to
The 1919 formation of the "Lindsborg Historical Society" ~ The Smoky Hills' "Smoky Hill" christened "Coronado Heights" May 8, 1924.
To this, the succeeding sections will be:
G. N. Malm's role in the development of the Lindsborg Historical Society and Coronado Heights ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist;
Lindsborg Historical Society and Coronado Heights History ~ Three (3) accounts by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg, former SVHA secretary and historian
Bill Carlson, SVHA member and historian reports on Coronado Heights history in his 2011
"Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now" Part 1 and Part 2;
and
"Coronado Expedition Chain Mail and Bethany College Museum" History ~ An account in Dr. Lungstrom's book.
Emil with Lydia and her family on top of Coronado Heights
L-R
Mother Selma Sohlberg, Husband Emil Deere, Twin Sister Ida or Anna Sohlberg, Lydia Sohlberg Deere
c1916
Some of Lydia's Coronado Heights Photographs
Emil and Swedish Artist Birger Sandzen
One of Emil's Bethany College geology field trips to Coronado Heights
One of Lydia's field trips to Coronado Heights with her college girls from Lane Hart Hall
when she was the matron for this girls' dorm.
After marriage to Deere, from1916 to about 1925
Project Photographs
Documenting the work on Coronado Heights
Documenting the work on Coronado Heights
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"Let Us Remember Them"
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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
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