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Professors and wives living on campus with the students then created that family atmosphere that still survives today at Bethany!
Their 1920 Old Main Apartments of Bethany College
~ Living on campus with the students for 20 years
1920 to 1940
(They lived in 2 apartments, #68 and #69 on the 3rd floor of Old Main)
- Lydia's and Emil's two apartments were up the main stairs of Old Main and to the right* –
- Lydia's sisters Anna and Selma at entrance to Old Main -
(note the Christian Cross above them)
See the Deere Apartments
#68 & #69
#68 & #69
Source: Page 348 of Dr. Leon Lundstrom's 1990 "History of Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
- The Deere 3rd Floor Old Main Apartments -
- note apartments 68 & 69 -
- Note above the framed 5 post cards hanging on the right side of the wall.
- Four were from Swedish photographer Bror Gröndal and one from JV.
- 1920 -
- Lydia's and Emil's first Easter living in their two Old Main apartments -
- Lydia's and Emil's first Easter living in their two Old Main apartments -
As a married couple, Emil and Lydia received these Christmas greeting cards from
Mr. & Mrs. G.N. Malm and Mr. & Mrs. Birger Sandzén
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- Christmas card etching of first Bethany Lutheran Church by Swedish artist friend G. N. Malm -
- 1928 Christmas card block print by Swedish artist friend Birger Sandzén -
- Their Christmas celebration with friends -
NOTE: These photographs are part of the "Scientist Emil O. Deere" main section, found the subsection of "Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Photography, 1906 – 1925." From there they are under Bethany College's "Earliest Buildings" then under Bethany College "Old Main"
1887 – 1968 and found here at “Lydia's and Emil's Old Main Apartments” 1920 to 1940.
Sources: Sohlberg Deere Estate and Professor Dr. Leon Lungstrom's "E. O. Deere" chapter from his 1990
History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas
1887 – 1968 and found here at “Lydia's and Emil's Old Main Apartments” 1920 to 1940.
Sources: Sohlberg Deere Estate and Professor Dr. Leon Lungstrom's "E. O. Deere" chapter from his 1990
History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas
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~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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