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    • The Bethany Artist & the Bethany Scientist: Lydia & Emil >
      • ​"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 "Bethany Lutheran Church" 1869 >
        • Their "Augustana Lutheran Synod," 1860 - 1962 >
          • The Augustana Heritage Association, 2000 - 2016
        • Their "Augustana Women's Missionary Society," 1892
      • 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 1920s Coronado Heights Photographs and their Smoky Valley Historical Association (SVHA)
      • Their 1936 1873 Swedish Homestead, "The Old Deere Farm," The Peter J. Larson Farm, etc. >
        • Their 1873 Swede House
        • A Smoky Valley Swedish Virtual Memorial - ​"Dedicated to the Memory of the Smoky Valley Swedish Settlements" >
          • 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 & Audiences, Press and Broadcasts
    • 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, Emory Lindquist, and his 1953, "Smoky Valley People, A History of Lindsborg, Kansas"
    • 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 Her Handwritten 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 Travels with Deere 1916 - 1930s >
          • Lydia's California Photographs for Painting
          • Lydia's Palm Springs Pictorial Magazine, 1938-1939
          • Lydia's California Pressed Wild Flowers, c1930
      • "LYDIA'S WORLD" Photography Exhibitions in Lindsborg, 2005 - 2011
    • 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 Artist Birger Sandzén through His Students' Paintings
    • 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 N.Y.C, 1984 "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, 1880-1894-1993
  • 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 Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson (On YouTube) >
      • Rev. Dr. 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 ... >
          • Thure Olof Jaderborg
        • Swensson's Swedish Artists of the 1890s
        • Swensson's "Bethany College Museum," 1882 - 1966
      • In Memorium**Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1904
    • Deere's Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1873-1943 >
      • In Memoriam**Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1943
      • Rev. Dr. 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 & Degrees
  • "The Other Swedes"
    • Honoring them and their works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \\\\/ >
      • Mrs. Alma Christina Lind Swensson ~ Remembering her as Mrs. Rev. Dr. Swensson, the First Lady of Lindsborg
      • Photographer B.G. Gröndal ~ Remembering him for visually documenting Lindsborg and Bethany College in their earliest days
      • Miss Alma Luise Olson ~ Remembering her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden" by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg >
        • Remembering Miss Alma Luise Olson and her most extraordinary life at home and abroad by Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
      • Artist Birger Sandzén ~ Remembering him for "sharing his art with the world," starting "first" at Lindsborg's Bethany College >
        • Dr. & Dr. Mrs. Charles Greenough III ~ Remembering them for their gift of the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery
      • Artist Lester Raymer ~ Remembering him as the renown virtuoso artist and "behind the scenes" community supporter
      • Dr. Arvin W. Hahn ​​~ Remembering him for saving Bethany College from going under!​ >
        • Dr. Arvin W. Hahn (1923-2017) ~ Remembering him handing me my Bethany College Diploma on Sunday, May 26,1968
      • Dr. ​Elmer Copley ~ Remembering Bethany College's Oratorio Society Conductor who carried on "that" "Messiah" traditional excellence for 26 years, taking it to new levels >
        • Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the “Messiah” conductor for the Bethany College "Swedish King’s" performance, 1976 >
          • Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the "Messiah" conductor for the Bethany College "Centennial Celebration” performance, 1981
      • Dr. William Holwerda ( MD) ~ Remembering him at the founder of "Svensk Hyllningsfest"
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg ~ Remembering her as the founder of the "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers"
      • Mr. & Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg ~ Remembering them and their “Swedish Crafts Shop” – 65 years and 50 trips to Sweden
      • The Swedish Lindsborg Builders ~ Remembering them for the lovely homes they built
      • Dr. Greta Swenson and Mr. & Mrs. Mark Esping ~ Honoring them for founding Lindsborg's “first” "Swedish-American Folklife Institute of Central Kansas." 1986 >
        • Recognizing their Folklife Institute's "Swedish-American Heritage Center," 1996
      • Ms. Rebecca Copley ~ Honoring her as Bethany College's “first” graduate to become an International Opera Singer
      • Mr. Bruce Karstadt ~ Honoring him as a Bethany College graduate for heading up a major national Swedish American institution
      • Mrs. Becky Larson-Anderson ~ Honoring her as Bethany College's “first” woman graduate to become mayor of "Little Sweden" USA
      • Dr. Mark Lucas ~ Messiah conductor bringing the Lindsborg “Oberammergau of the Plains" to a "new" world stage
    • The Smoky Valley Writers on "The Other Swedes" ​ ~ Their Swedish American Legacy Collection >
      • Mr. Bror Carlsson and Mr. Alf Brorson from Sweden ~ Chronicling Founder Pastor Olof Olsson's missionary journey to Lindsborg from Värmland, Sweden
      • Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson ~ An author of countless Swedish & English publications, newspapers, articles and books ...
      • Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy ~ Providing the only known history on Lindsborg and Bethany College's earliest Swedish photographer, B.G. Gröndal
      • Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin ​~ Compiling foundational Swedish Smoky Valley Augustana Lutheran settlements' histories and more
      • Dr. Emory Lindquist ~ Chronicling Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg [Selma Lind] ​ ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, and more
      • Dr. Leon Lungstrom ~ Chronicling college professors and providing the "only known written" account on the Bethany College Museum
      • Ms. Karen A. Humphrey ~ Chronicling highlights of Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College society and culture in the earliest years
      • Mr. A. John Pearson & Mr. Kenneth Sjogren ~ Chronicling the Bethany College Presidents
      • Mr. Bill Carlson ~ Chronicling Lindsborg's earliest and later histories with a personal connection
      • Mr. Chris Abercrombie ~ Remembering him as the "historian," the SVHA president and his body of work
      • Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist ~ Chronicling key Swedish Augustana Lutheran Smoky Valley settlements other than Lindsborg
      • Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and the Bethany Home Writers ~ Chronicling the "only known written" story on the beginnings of Bethany Home
      • Smoky Valley Historical Association Members ~ Researchers, compilers and writers of " Where Did They Live? "
    • ​Smoky Valley History Research Writers Website Designers ~ Their Swedish American Legacy Websites
    • Bethany College Swedish Knights and Honored Ladies ~ Their Royal Swedish Legacy Listings
    • His Majesty, Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden ~ Honoring him in Lindsborg and at Bethany College, 1976 >
      • Mr. Bill Carlson's Lindsborg's Bethany Home & the Swedish King's Visit
  • Contacts
    • For Lindsborg, 1869, CONTACT Today >
      • 2020 Christmas in Lindsborg ~ 'Welcome to Annandag Jul Worship from Sunnemo & Lindsborg"
      • 2020 Christmas in LIndsborg ~ the Ljuskröna and Apple Tree Exhibit" online presentation
    • ​For Bethany College, 1881, CONTACT Today
    • Closing Remarks & Traveling through SWEDES >
      • The Swedish American Legacy Photographs >
        • ​Lydia's Lindsborg's Photography​, ​1900 - 1925
        • Lydia's Bethany's Photography, ​1906 - 1925
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 " … Most distinctive in Bethany's range of college symbols of that type is the famous "Rockar! Stockar" yell.  It all started in 1903..."
                                                                                                                                                                       -- Dr. Emory Lindquist's Smoky Valley People

Their Bethany College 1902 "Terrible Swedes," Coach Bennie Owen,
Their 1903 "Rockar Stockar"

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- Early Sports Photographs -
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Source: "Smoky Valley People" found between page 198 & 199
From fourth Swedish American President Dr. Emory Lindquist's 1953 Smoky Valley People, Chapter XIV, "Bethany College: Organizations and Activities," page 222, paragraphs 1 and 2, we read:
 
   "'The attitude at Bethany College toward the gridiron sport must be placed against the background of the times. It was, as judged by present standards, a rough and dangerous game. It involved much more direct bodily contact than is now the situation.  Direct force and power characterized the game. Moreover, football had been outlawed in many colleges and universities. Even Dr. Swensson, later an enthusiastic supporter of Bethany's gridiron teams, felt that the game should be banned. In a statement presented in the Bethany Messenger in March, 1895, he wrote that he opposed football because it was (1) brutal, (2) dangerous, (3) a poor substitute for gymnastics, (4) it caused students to forget their studies, and (5) it fostered a wild and unruly spirit. He pointed out that it was now banned and he hope never again to see a Bethany eleven. Swensson continued, ' Who does not despise the noisy boisterousness, the savage, all penetrating yelling,  the free and unpleasant exhibition of unrestricted lung-power so closely allied to the sport of football? '
 
   "While the decision to ban football was not well received in some quarters, it stood until the end of the century when agitation under the leadership of the faculty produce a change in the situation..."
 
From page 223 paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 ongoing; then to page 224 paragraphs 1, 2 and 3, Lindquist continues:
 
   “The resumption officially of football at Bethany in the autumn of 1902 introduced a great era of victories. Associated with the seasons of 1902, 1903, and 1904 is the name of Bennie Owen, famous football coach. Following a great playing career at the University of Kansas in 1897, Owen went to Washburn College in Topeka, Kansas, as coach of athletics in 1900, and the following year he served as assistant to "Hurry Up” Yost at the University of Michigan. Bennie Owen applied to Swensson for the position at Bethany and was immediately hired as instructor in chemistry and coach at a salary of $500 per year.
 
   “Benny Owen’s coaching career at Bethany was phenomenal.
During his three years there, his Bethany teams won twenty-two games and lost two, and tied two. The ”Terrible Swedes” as they became known, scored 796 points to 93 points from their opponents. In 1902 Bethany won nine games, scoring 388 to 34 points for the opposing teams. In 1903 the ”Terrible Swedes” lost only to Washburn, a team that was decisively defeated the following year. In 1904 Bethany was all victorious.
 
  The games and scores for the 1904 season were as follows:
 
  Bethany 23, Chilocco 0.
  Bethany 82, Cooper 6.
  Bethany 17, Fairmount 0.
  Bethany 16, Kansas State Normal 0.
  Bethany 28, K.S.A.C. 5.
  Bethany 71, Ottawa University 0.
  Bethany 36, Oklahoma University 9.


     “The feature games in 1903 and 1904 were with Oklahoma University. The 1903 game was played in Colcord Park in Oklahoma City on Thanksgiving afternoon. Two hundred Bethany fans went to the Sooner capital via special train. The game was only eight minutes old when the Swedes started a ninety-six (96) yard touchdown march.  Win Banbury, half-back, made a thirty-yard (30 yard) run for the first touchdown. Bethany lead at the end of the half 12-0. The final score was Bethany 12, Oklahoma University 10. Bennie Owen's Swedes were all victorious when they faced a strong Oklahoma University team at Sportsman’s Park in Oklahoma City on Thanksgiving Day, 1904. The Bethany team again unleashed a fast, deceptive type of play that swept Oklahoma players off their feet. The “spinner,” "cross buck,” "the unbalanced line,” and other types of play were used for perhaps the first time in the Plains area by Owen’s Bethany teams. When the first half of the 1904 game was over, Bethany was ahead 24-4. The final score showed Bethany 36, Oklahoma University 9!

   "Bethany's team under Benny Owen played fast, hard, and clean. Officials and spectators everywhere praise the fine conduct of the “Terrible Swedes.”  They played with alertness and knew exactly what they wanted to do. Training rules were observed with strict concern. The team was outstanding. Benny Owen was a leader of men.  An enthusiastic team played to win for coach and Alma Mater.

   "The “Terrible Swedes” made history for Bethany. Owen had the Banbury brothers from Pratt, Win and Quince, who were fast and rugged. There were the four Peterson brothers from Mitchell County, Dave, Leslie, Alfred, and Andrew. Others on the outstanding Bethany squads were Fred Troutman, Leonard Runbeck, Frank Henderson, Elmer T. Peterson, "Wink” Busch,  E. Wiley,  Luther and Martin Swanstrom, George White, "Kacie" Swenson, Edwin Anderson, J. R. Skidmore, Anton Peterson, Eric J. Heurlin, Carl Slatt, Leonard Petterson, Paul N. Carlson, Charlie Clancy, Arthur "Doc" Berquist, Frank Gibbs, Oscar Ostrum, Otto Oleen, Clarence Rapp, Luther Stromquist, John Turner, Evan Pugh, "Bill” Bailey, “Gabe” Carlson, G. Edwin Johnson, Arthur Gibson, Leonard Haggman, Roscoe Peterson, Leonard Swedberg, and Sam Holmberg. The training was intensive. Following long scrimmage, the players would jog to the bridge two miles east of  Lindsborg and back. When returning from a football trip, Owen would ask the conductor to stop the train two miles out of Lindsborg, and the coach and team trotted into town. Physical condition and mental alertness we're basic factors in Owen’s great teams.  Morale was high.

   “Oklahoma University realized the great ability of Bennie Owen.  Following the 1904 season, he was approached by Professor Vernon Parrington in behalf of Oklahoma University. He left Bethany reluctantly to begin a great career as football coach, and then later as director of athletics at Oklahoma University…”
"Rockar!  Stockar!"

Lindquist's 1953 Smoky Valley People, (on page 220, paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 5 and continuing on 221 for two additional paragraphs) tells the story of how this Swedish American Lindsborg Bethany cheer came to be:

   "The college world has developed it symbols, and Bethany, too, is a part of that pattern. Students and graduates proudly display the yellow and blue Bethany pennants. They join in singing enthusiastically the Alma Mater song. Most distinctive in Bethany's range of college symbols of that type is the famous "Rockar! Stockar" yell. It all started in 1903 in the great days of Bennie Owen and the “Terrible Swedes.”  A group of students, including Eric Heurlin, Karl J. (Kacie) Swenson, and E. O. Deere, later Bethany’s Dean, expressed dissatisfaction with the old "Rah, Rah" yells. Membership in a class that was studying Swedish mythology brought to their attention the power possessed by Thor, as he rushed through space in a chariot pulled by charging goats. It symbolized drive and strength. The students also had read about a certain Jarl in Sweden of old, who had placed all his possessions on a log raft which was then pushed into the Baltic Sea with the intent that wherever the raft stopped, there a great city would be built. This myth symbolized the spirit of adventure and success.
 
   "The combination of these factors furnished a strange background for a college yell, but the elements were there. The words and lines were formed. Several members of the class of 1904 learn the yell and immediately before a critical game, they rushed out on the field and gave the first public version of “Rockar Stockar!”
 
   "The meaning of the yell, as interpreted by Dr. E. O. Deere, who helped to initiate what apparently the Rev. Eric Heurlin had drafted in the first instance, is as follows:


ROCKAR!  STOCKAR!
(The jarl wore a jacket or coat – Rockar.  He was on a log raft – Stockar,
braving the perils of the Baltic, floating to the peninsula where he founded Stockholm.)

 THOR OCH HANS BOCKAR!
 (Thor going forward with lightning speed, driving his goats from pinnacle to pinnacle, drives irresistibly through all opposition.)
KöR  IGENOM!    KöR  IGENOM!
 Drive on through!  Drive on through!
TJU!   TJU!   TJU!
 (A Swedish interjection.)
BETHANIA
 (Bethany)
   "Thus came into being Bethany's famous yell which is heard at all Bethany athletic contests and whenever Bethany groups assemble. “ 'Rockar! Stockar! Thor och Hans Bockar! Kör Igenom! Kör Igenom! Tju! Tju! Tju! Bethania.'...”


The Deere's and Bethany's Sports -

Emil Deere was a College Athletic Association member since 1901; he, with others, in 1902, as noted above, created the college cheer, "Rockar Stockar" which is used to this day; in 1913 he was a College Athletic Committee member and the Tennis Association Secretary; he was the College Athletic Advisor and Manager of Athletics representing Bethany at the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conferences (KCAC); and he was the KCAC president for nine (9) years, traveling to meetings of the National Collegiate Athletic Conferences in New Orleans in 1929, in Chicago in 1933 and in Los Angles in 1940.

Emil and Lydia shared a family photo album containing photographs of the sports that they so surely enjoyed.  A few of these photographs are shown below.

Bethany College Sports Photographs

​Baseball 1901
Picture
Source: 1902 "Forget-Me-Not," page 36

​​Basketball 1901
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Source: 1902 "Forget-Me-Not," page 32

​Basketball 1910 - 11
Picture
Source: Lydia's and Emil's Photo Album; this could very well be Lydia's photograph.

​Basketball 1912
Picture
Source: Lydia's and Emil's Photo Album; this could very well be Lydia's photograph.

​Tennis
Picture
Source: Lydia's and Emil's Photo Album; Lydia Sohlberg Deere Photograph
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Source: Lydia's and Emil's Photo Album; Lydia Sohlberg Deere Photograph

​Croquet
Picture
Source: Lydia's and Emil's Photo Album; Lydia Sohlberg Deere Photograph

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