"The Other Swedes"
~ Honoring Him and His Works ~
PENDING
WORKING ON THIS 10 20 21
B.G. Gröndal
~ Remembering him and his photography in the earliest years of Lindsborg and Bethany College
by
Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg, Mr. Chris Abercrombie, & Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy
~ Honoring Him and His Works ~
PENDING
WORKING ON THIS 10 20 21
B.G. Gröndal
~ Remembering him and his photography in the earliest years of Lindsborg and Bethany College
by
Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg, Mr. Chris Abercrombie, & Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy
Bror Gustaf (B.G.) Gröndal was born in 1855 in Västerås, Sweden, and after his father Johan Gustaf died, his mother Sofi Jack Gröndal moved him, at age four, and his 10 siblings to Uppsala to ensure that they would all have a good education at the University. But B.G. was not a scholar as he preferred sports, the outdoors and loved the sea. Therefore at the age of 14, he persuaded his mother to let him join a group of Uppsala emigrants leaving Sweden to settle in Sanford, Florida, where they were to work in the orange groves.
A variety of jobs followed this first one in Florida until he became seriously ill with yellow fever. For a cure, his doctor suggested that he take a sea voyage. This found him on fast-cruising clipper ships where he became a sailor instead of a passenger, an adventuresome career lasting more than a decade providing a series of interesting jobs including serving as an enlistment in the U.S. Revenue Service which later became the Coast Guard. And, due to his love of the sea, B.G. certainly had a determination with this job to sail as many of the seven seas as possible. However, one day his life as a sailor came to a decisive end with a shipwreck which found him hanging on to a bobbing cotton bail in the Gulf of Mexico.
Moving on to Lake Michigan's Chicago where the greatest number of Swedish emigrants lived, he found employment in a waterfront store and then at a photography studio where he began to learn the rudiments of photography. From Chicago he moved on to St. Paul, Minnesota, another haven for Swedes, where his cousin introduced him to a leading photographer Alfred Palmquist under whom B.G. learned all the particulars of photography as an apprentice. Due to the severity of the Minnesota winters, B.G. moved south to Austin, Texas, where he met a man who had become the owner of a fully equipped portable photography studio, yet the man knew nothing about photography. They became partners, traveling throughout West Texas producing tintype photographs during the era of the "Wild West" starting with photographs of cowboys, for cowboys!
Ready to have a studio of his own and hearing about a Swedish settlement in Round Rock, Texas, he headed there, only to find that a photography studio had already been established surprisingly by a Swedish woman photographer Sarah Margaret Noyd (1859-1945), who unknowingly then, would one day become his wife. So he traveled six miles north to establish a needed studio in Georgetown. Yet, back in Round Rock, a friendship developed with Miss Noyd and B.G. through their common interest in photography and they were united in marriage on October 19, 1886, and became photography business partners as well. Soon after, the couple was destined to live out the rest of their lives and their careers as photographers in Lindsborg, Kansas, beginning in 1887. This was due to the invitation of Bethany College founder Swedish American president Carl Aaron Swensson who stepped into the couple's photography studio in Round Rock during a break of the Augustana Lutheran Synod convention he was attending.
While B.G.'s wife would eventually become a mother of their 7 children in Lindsborg, she most certainly supported him and helped him during his career, as she watched him become a most famous Kansas pioneer photographer, well known and respected throughout Kansas by other photographers for his state-of-the-art studios and his photographic craftsmanship. In 1899 some of his work was published in New York City's Wilsons Photographic Magazine. In 1903 a new photo mount was named after him by manufactures. In 1905 he helped found the acclaimed exclusive 12 member Kansas Photographers Club. In 1907 he was president of the Kansas Professional Photographers Association where he would earn the title of “Dean of Kansas Photographers" as the oldest active member.
The photographs that he took during his 58 years in Lindsborg from 1887 to 1945 of the Kansas Smoky Valley Swedes and others, no doubt, have past on down to family members of today, and are especially cherished by those still living in Lindsborg.
A variety of jobs followed this first one in Florida until he became seriously ill with yellow fever. For a cure, his doctor suggested that he take a sea voyage. This found him on fast-cruising clipper ships where he became a sailor instead of a passenger, an adventuresome career lasting more than a decade providing a series of interesting jobs including serving as an enlistment in the U.S. Revenue Service which later became the Coast Guard. And, due to his love of the sea, B.G. certainly had a determination with this job to sail as many of the seven seas as possible. However, one day his life as a sailor came to a decisive end with a shipwreck which found him hanging on to a bobbing cotton bail in the Gulf of Mexico.
Moving on to Lake Michigan's Chicago where the greatest number of Swedish emigrants lived, he found employment in a waterfront store and then at a photography studio where he began to learn the rudiments of photography. From Chicago he moved on to St. Paul, Minnesota, another haven for Swedes, where his cousin introduced him to a leading photographer Alfred Palmquist under whom B.G. learned all the particulars of photography as an apprentice. Due to the severity of the Minnesota winters, B.G. moved south to Austin, Texas, where he met a man who had become the owner of a fully equipped portable photography studio, yet the man knew nothing about photography. They became partners, traveling throughout West Texas producing tintype photographs during the era of the "Wild West" starting with photographs of cowboys, for cowboys!
Ready to have a studio of his own and hearing about a Swedish settlement in Round Rock, Texas, he headed there, only to find that a photography studio had already been established surprisingly by a Swedish woman photographer Sarah Margaret Noyd (1859-1945), who unknowingly then, would one day become his wife. So he traveled six miles north to establish a needed studio in Georgetown. Yet, back in Round Rock, a friendship developed with Miss Noyd and B.G. through their common interest in photography and they were united in marriage on October 19, 1886, and became photography business partners as well. Soon after, the couple was destined to live out the rest of their lives and their careers as photographers in Lindsborg, Kansas, beginning in 1887. This was due to the invitation of Bethany College founder Swedish American president Carl Aaron Swensson who stepped into the couple's photography studio in Round Rock during a break of the Augustana Lutheran Synod convention he was attending.
While B.G.'s wife would eventually become a mother of their 7 children in Lindsborg, she most certainly supported him and helped him during his career, as she watched him become a most famous Kansas pioneer photographer, well known and respected throughout Kansas by other photographers for his state-of-the-art studios and his photographic craftsmanship. In 1899 some of his work was published in New York City's Wilsons Photographic Magazine. In 1903 a new photo mount was named after him by manufactures. In 1905 he helped found the acclaimed exclusive 12 member Kansas Photographers Club. In 1907 he was president of the Kansas Professional Photographers Association where he would earn the title of “Dean of Kansas Photographers" as the oldest active member.
The photographs that he took during his 58 years in Lindsborg from 1887 to 1945 of the Kansas Smoky Valley Swedes and others, no doubt, have past on down to family members of today, and are especially cherished by those still living in Lindsborg.
Bror Gustaf Gröndal
(1855-1948)
“Dean of Kansas Photographers”
58 years from 1887 to 1945
(1855-1948)
“Dean of Kansas Photographers”
58 years from 1887 to 1945
Courtesy of the Grondel Eddy Family & EddyWorks
The first to showcase B.G. Gröndal's work was the Lindsborg Old Mill Museum in 2006 which featured a retrospective of his photographs, after which his granddaughter Margaret Dahlquist Eddy (1928-2017) set to work on a much needed book on this first professional photographer in Lindsborg. In 2013, "THE LENS OF B.G. GRONDAL: KEEPER OF HIS TIME, was published by EddyWorks' Cynthia Eddy of New York City, his great granddaughter, who beautifully designed the work and worked with her mother Margaret, from the beginning to its publication.
Yet 40 years earlier in 1973, Lindsborg resident researcher, historian and author Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg (1918-2016) wrote two pieces showcasing B.G.'s and his wife's life together: "Sally A. Noyd" and "Partners for Life." In 2009, another resident equally gifted researcher, historian and author Mr. Chris Abercrombie (1949-2017) created a similar showcasing tribute through a video simply titled, "B G GRÖNDAL PHOTOGRAPHER," -- its first showing, though, was in 2007 for the Kansas PBS station program Real Kansas on KPTS! (Both Mrs. Jaderborg and Mr. Abercrombie played important and very active roles at the Smoky Valley Historical Association, SVHA, especially during historic community events, he as president and she as secretary.)
Note that in her 1973 book "Talk About Lindsborg," Mrs. Jaderborg's stories appear on pages 19 to 22 with the photograph on page 21. Her family, the Einar and Elizabeth Jaderborg Family, has graciously permitted me to include these stories here. Note also that to enhance Mrs. Jaderborg's stories and to introduce the viewer to B.G. Gröndal and his family through his photographs of them with captions from Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy's book, the Gröndal Eddy Family and EddyWorks has graciously permitted me to include them.
Here now are Mrs. Jaderborg's two stories.
Yet 40 years earlier in 1973, Lindsborg resident researcher, historian and author Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg (1918-2016) wrote two pieces showcasing B.G.'s and his wife's life together: "Sally A. Noyd" and "Partners for Life." In 2009, another resident equally gifted researcher, historian and author Mr. Chris Abercrombie (1949-2017) created a similar showcasing tribute through a video simply titled, "B G GRÖNDAL PHOTOGRAPHER," -- its first showing, though, was in 2007 for the Kansas PBS station program Real Kansas on KPTS! (Both Mrs. Jaderborg and Mr. Abercrombie played important and very active roles at the Smoky Valley Historical Association, SVHA, especially during historic community events, he as president and she as secretary.)
Note that in her 1973 book "Talk About Lindsborg," Mrs. Jaderborg's stories appear on pages 19 to 22 with the photograph on page 21. Her family, the Einar and Elizabeth Jaderborg Family, has graciously permitted me to include these stories here. Note also that to enhance Mrs. Jaderborg's stories and to introduce the viewer to B.G. Gröndal and his family through his photographs of them with captions from Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy's book, the Gröndal Eddy Family and EddyWorks has graciously permitted me to include them.
Here now are Mrs. Jaderborg's two stories.
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"Sally A. Noyd" & "Partners for Life"
by
Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
"Sally A. Noyd" & "Partners for Life"
by
Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
Bror Gröndal came from Round Rock, Texas, to establish his first Lindsborg photography studio on the west side of North Main Street. --EJ
Sally A. Noyd
(B.G.'s Wife)
"There was great excitement in Round Rock. The new schoolma'am had arrived. She was young, and she was pretty -- a native of Andover, Illinois. Pastor Martin Noyd‘s little sister, who had come for a visit, had decided to stay.
"It is not difficult to imagine how the curtains must have been pulled aside – ever so slightly – as she walked gracefully down the road on her way to the school, the Texas breeze gently ruffling her curly brown hair.
"And it is not difficult to imagine how her big brown eyes must have opened wide in amazement as a great herd of cattle – being driven North straight through the heart of town by whooping cowboys, suddenly loomed ahead of her, blocking all possible escape.
"But the cowboys gallant and friendly (especially where a pretty girl was concerned), swept off their sombreros, parted of the herd, and escorted her through safely.
"And Sarah Margaret Noyd (better known as Sally) loved it -- the hospitality, the openness. Here she would like to stay. But the very next year she was called north to Iowa to nurse her mother, who was very ill, back to health.
"As fate would have it, her next visit was to Wahoo, Nebraska, where brother Martin had taken over responsibilities at Wahoo Academy. But for this significant tangent, Sally might never have had a part in the story of Lindsborg.
"She was bilingual (understood, spoke and wrote two languages). Therefore, she was hired to teach English to the Swedish immigrants at the school. At the end of the school term, she became employed by a Wahoo photographer. Gradually, Sally learned the rudiments of the craft, becoming particularly adept at the art of retouching.
"The new skill and trade fascinated her, and she soon found herself ready to open a studio of her own.
"Now it was back to Round Rock, Texas, for Sally Noyd -- where there was no photographer, and consequently no competition. She opened her studio.
"It is not difficult to imagine how the curtains must have been pulled aside – ever so slightly – as she walked gracefully down the road on her way to the school, the Texas breeze gently ruffling her curly brown hair.
"And it is not difficult to imagine how her big brown eyes must have opened wide in amazement as a great herd of cattle – being driven North straight through the heart of town by whooping cowboys, suddenly loomed ahead of her, blocking all possible escape.
"But the cowboys gallant and friendly (especially where a pretty girl was concerned), swept off their sombreros, parted of the herd, and escorted her through safely.
"And Sarah Margaret Noyd (better known as Sally) loved it -- the hospitality, the openness. Here she would like to stay. But the very next year she was called north to Iowa to nurse her mother, who was very ill, back to health.
"As fate would have it, her next visit was to Wahoo, Nebraska, where brother Martin had taken over responsibilities at Wahoo Academy. But for this significant tangent, Sally might never have had a part in the story of Lindsborg.
"She was bilingual (understood, spoke and wrote two languages). Therefore, she was hired to teach English to the Swedish immigrants at the school. At the end of the school term, she became employed by a Wahoo photographer. Gradually, Sally learned the rudiments of the craft, becoming particularly adept at the art of retouching.
"The new skill and trade fascinated her, and she soon found herself ready to open a studio of her own.
"Now it was back to Round Rock, Texas, for Sally Noyd -- where there was no photographer, and consequently no competition. She opened her studio.
SARA MARGARET NOYD: Courtesy of the Gröndal Eddy Family & EddyWorks
"One hot day, when she was having difficulty with developing solution, a stranger dropped in. He introduced himself. He was, he said, Bror Grondal, photographer. He knew all about developing solutions.
"Into the Gröndal-Noyd Studio walked Dr. Carl Swenson. It was 1887, and Sally and B. G. had been married a year. The Kansas Conference of the Augustana Lutheran Church was meeting in Round Rock. Dr. Swensson, the famous pastor from Lindsborg, Kansas had much to do, but he took time out to look around.
"It did not take him long to see that the Swedish couple who operated the photographic studio was doing work of unusually fine quality. Dr. Swensson had an eye for talent in all fields, and would, if he could, bring it all to Lindsborg.
"Gradually, his irresistible personality and persuasiveness began to work their charm. “Why not come to Lindsborg and open a studio," he urged the couple. Lindsborg was a college town without a photographer. One was certainly needed, and the opportunities were seemingly endless.
"Sally was reluctant to leave her Texas friends, but finally consented to try Kansas for one year, keeping the Round Rock studio open meanwhile – just in case!
"Into the Gröndal-Noyd Studio walked Dr. Carl Swenson. It was 1887, and Sally and B. G. had been married a year. The Kansas Conference of the Augustana Lutheran Church was meeting in Round Rock. Dr. Swensson, the famous pastor from Lindsborg, Kansas had much to do, but he took time out to look around.
"It did not take him long to see that the Swedish couple who operated the photographic studio was doing work of unusually fine quality. Dr. Swensson had an eye for talent in all fields, and would, if he could, bring it all to Lindsborg.
"Gradually, his irresistible personality and persuasiveness began to work their charm. “Why not come to Lindsborg and open a studio," he urged the couple. Lindsborg was a college town without a photographer. One was certainly needed, and the opportunities were seemingly endless.
"Sally was reluctant to leave her Texas friends, but finally consented to try Kansas for one year, keeping the Round Rock studio open meanwhile – just in case!
"B.G. and Sally lived in a cottage at 411 N. Main, Lindsborg. It was small, but as new members of the family arrived (six girls and one boy) new rooms were added -- until it reached its present size. A new brick studio with a huge skylight was built on the corner of State and Maine, and the Grondals were kept busy, busy, busy.
411 North Main Street
Courtesy of the Gröndal Eddy Family & EddyWorks
Courtesy of the Gröndal Eddy Family & EddyWorks
"After the children had gone to homes of their own, and the sand pile, the parallel bars, rope-swings and sailor hammocks had been removed from her spacious yard, Mother Gröndal had room for a garden. Flowers bloomed where her children had played: Rose (who died in 1914); Lillian (Dahlquist), Garfield, Kansas, and Lordsburg, New Mexico; Ruth (Dean), Pennington, New Jersey; Eunice (Bengston), near Tacoma, Washington; Elsie (Harries), Seattle, Washington; Edith (Carlson), Seattle, Washington; and Bror L., University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
"This was home, and had been for a long, long time. So Lindsborg had become her home. And Sally and B. G.‘s pictures tell the story of nearly 60 years of this town‘s history -- from the late 1880s to 1945. And the family albums of this area attest to Dr. Swensson sound judgment of the work of two dedicated young people from Round Rock, Texas."
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Partners for Life
(B.G. & Sally)
Partners for Life
(B.G. & Sally)
"Poor Gustaf Grondal found himself floating ashore on a bale of cotton in the Gulf of Mexico. His 12-year-old career as a sailor had come to an abrupt end. If he survive this, he would head for Chicago, he decided.
"At fourteen, Bror, the ninth of his widowed mother's eleven children, had persuaded her to let him join a group of folks immigrating from Uppsala, Sweden, to Sanford, Florida, to work in the orange groves. Most of the pay was to be in land rather than in dollars.
"He had left Sweden, as planned, in 1869, and had gone right to work as soon as he landed in Florida.
"Then malaria had struck. B. G.‘s pain had been almost unbearable.
“A long sea voyage is the only cure," the doctor had advised.
"Since B. G.‘s ambition had always been to go to sea, he lost no time in signing up on a clipper ship, sailed “around the Horn," put into port after port, and worked with a hardiest crews – including some in the United States Coast Guard and the United States Revenue Service.
"Now he was bobbing landward on a bale of cotton, becoming more determined with every “bob" to put ashore for awhile.
"Chicago, maybe. Yes, Chicago.
"Chicago was unlike anything he had ever known -- the excitement of a Westward advance and the crisscrossing of the cultured and the uncultured. It was here that B. G. was to see the unforgettable performances by Edwin Booth in Hamlet and other plays on stage. [The brother of John Wilkes Booth who assassinated president Lincoln.]
"But, while visiting a cousin in Saint Paul, it was B. G.'s fate to meet the best photographer in the Twin Cities, a Mr. Palmquist. Before long, he was working as an apprentice to this artist.
"It was a great life, and a great profession, but the climate in St. Paul, Minnesota, was miserable. So, B. G. decided to move south.
"In Austin, Texas, he met a man who knew nothing about photography but who had become the owner of a portable studio and its equipment. B. G. became his operator. Together they took off for West Texas, the Wild, Wild West – dodging the "shoot-'em-ups" and calmly producing tin- types of heroes and would-be heroes alike.
"It was after this tour that he dropped in on Sally Noyd's studio in Round Rock. Before long they became partners -- for life.
"After Round Rock, Texas, came Lindsborg, Kansas. B. G. preferred the progressive Kansas town with its academic atmosphere, brick sidewalks, city water, sewers, street lighting and paving. He entered into the festivals enthusiastically.
"When 'Teddy' Roosevelt came to speak in Lindsborg in 1900, B. G. help decorate Ling Gymnasium. Since The Full Dinner Pail was Teddy‘s campaign slogan, there were dinner pails hung all over the hall . During his speech, T. R. frequently struck out at one close by to emphasize a point: “This full dinner pail . . .'
"It was a great relief to B. G. when T. R. sat down. Every one of those dinner pails was empty, and none was too securely tied.
"B. G. was not musical, but he was a good listener. When he did sing, his songs were the old beloved hymns, Uppsala students songs, American folk songs, cowboy ballads and sailors shanties.
"At fourteen, Bror, the ninth of his widowed mother's eleven children, had persuaded her to let him join a group of folks immigrating from Uppsala, Sweden, to Sanford, Florida, to work in the orange groves. Most of the pay was to be in land rather than in dollars.
"He had left Sweden, as planned, in 1869, and had gone right to work as soon as he landed in Florida.
"Then malaria had struck. B. G.‘s pain had been almost unbearable.
“A long sea voyage is the only cure," the doctor had advised.
"Since B. G.‘s ambition had always been to go to sea, he lost no time in signing up on a clipper ship, sailed “around the Horn," put into port after port, and worked with a hardiest crews – including some in the United States Coast Guard and the United States Revenue Service.
"Now he was bobbing landward on a bale of cotton, becoming more determined with every “bob" to put ashore for awhile.
"Chicago, maybe. Yes, Chicago.
"Chicago was unlike anything he had ever known -- the excitement of a Westward advance and the crisscrossing of the cultured and the uncultured. It was here that B. G. was to see the unforgettable performances by Edwin Booth in Hamlet and other plays on stage. [The brother of John Wilkes Booth who assassinated president Lincoln.]
"But, while visiting a cousin in Saint Paul, it was B. G.'s fate to meet the best photographer in the Twin Cities, a Mr. Palmquist. Before long, he was working as an apprentice to this artist.
"It was a great life, and a great profession, but the climate in St. Paul, Minnesota, was miserable. So, B. G. decided to move south.
"In Austin, Texas, he met a man who knew nothing about photography but who had become the owner of a portable studio and its equipment. B. G. became his operator. Together they took off for West Texas, the Wild, Wild West – dodging the "shoot-'em-ups" and calmly producing tin- types of heroes and would-be heroes alike.
"It was after this tour that he dropped in on Sally Noyd's studio in Round Rock. Before long they became partners -- for life.
"After Round Rock, Texas, came Lindsborg, Kansas. B. G. preferred the progressive Kansas town with its academic atmosphere, brick sidewalks, city water, sewers, street lighting and paving. He entered into the festivals enthusiastically.
"When 'Teddy' Roosevelt came to speak in Lindsborg in 1900, B. G. help decorate Ling Gymnasium. Since The Full Dinner Pail was Teddy‘s campaign slogan, there were dinner pails hung all over the hall . During his speech, T. R. frequently struck out at one close by to emphasize a point: “This full dinner pail . . .'
"It was a great relief to B. G. when T. R. sat down. Every one of those dinner pails was empty, and none was too securely tied.
"B. G. was not musical, but he was a good listener. When he did sing, his songs were the old beloved hymns, Uppsala students songs, American folk songs, cowboy ballads and sailors shanties.
B. G.'s photography of their children, and Sally's of B. G. and their son.
Courtesy of the Gröndal Eddy Family & EddyWorks
"He enjoyed his children’s nursery rhymes as much as they did, and no one could tell the story of the old woman and her recalcitrant pig as well as he could. Children loved him. It was a familiar sight to see the youngsters come trooping down the sidewalk to “see him home" after work.
"The only position he ever held during his long membership in Bethany Church was that of usher. This was at a time when a group of hoodlums had been disturbing the vesper service. He advocated the use of a few buckets of water, judiciously administered by the ushers. The gang never returned
"Bror Gröndal was a member of the Photographers Association of Kansas from its beginning, and was later made a life member. He won many medals and awards for his work, and was especially commended for his unusual success with lighting.
"Modern medical methods and materials made it possible for him to continue his work until he passed his 90th year. He still liked everything about photography, including his customers. But, he said, his eyes were wearing out – and Sally had died that year, 1945.
"So, he close the studio and went to live with daughter Lillian in Garfield, Kansas. Here he died three years later in September, 1948. And they brought him back to rest next to Sally under the evergreens in Elmwood Cemetery."
[ This daughter Lillian who had married Henry Dahlquist gave birth to daughter Margaret who would become the author of the book in 2013, titled "THE LENS OF B.G. GRONDAL: KEEPER OF HIS TIME." ]
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"B G GRöNDAL PHOTOGRAPHER"
by
Mr. Chris Abercrombie
by
Mr. Chris Abercrombie
Note that Mr. Chris Abercrombie's story is in the form of a video on YouTube. This is just one of at least 65 video stories or interviews he produced on Lindsborg and Smoky Valley history for the community and for the world. Now find this only video on the Lindsborg photographer of the earliest time dated June 21, 2009, with Mr. Abercrombie's message:
"B. G. (Bror) Gröndal was persuaded to come to Lindsborg, Kansas, from Round Rock, Texas by Bethany College founder Carl Aaron Swensson in 1887. Grondal's photography business stayed in operation until the end of World War II. Today's Turner Photography is the direct descendant of Grondal's studio. This was one of my early videos when I wasn't as familiar with Adobe Premiere as I am today so the production values aren't as good as I would like. But it tells the story accurately. This video was selected to appear on the program Real Kansas on KPTS, our regional PBS station, in June 2007. Enjoy!"
"B. G. (Bror) Gröndal was persuaded to come to Lindsborg, Kansas, from Round Rock, Texas by Bethany College founder Carl Aaron Swensson in 1887. Grondal's photography business stayed in operation until the end of World War II. Today's Turner Photography is the direct descendant of Grondal's studio. This was one of my early videos when I wasn't as familiar with Adobe Premiere as I am today so the production values aren't as good as I would like. But it tells the story accurately. This video was selected to appear on the program Real Kansas on KPTS, our regional PBS station, in June 2007. Enjoy!"
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"THE LENS OF B.G. GRöNDAL: KEEPER OF HIS TIME
by
Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy
Now for information on Gröndal's granddaughter's book which shares an in-depth story including many wonderful photographs taken by B.G., go HERE to Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy ~ Chronicling the photography of Swedish B. G. Grondal's Lindsborg from 1887 to 1945.
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- Kansas Photographers Club -
B.G. is looking at camera
- Kansas Photographers Club -
B.G. is looking at camera
. . . B.G. GRONDAL: KEEPER OF HIS TIME
“Dean of Kansas Photographers”
58 years from 1887 to 1945
(1855-1948)
“Dean of Kansas Photographers”
58 years from 1887 to 1945
(1855-1948)
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
