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[Photograph of the East Sweden Presbyterian Church]
Photograph of an exterior view of a church, a single-story building surrounded by small hedges. The windows are all shaped with an arc at the top. The church's entrance has a THC historical marker next to it.
Date:
2006
Creator:
Hurd, Bobby
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard of Stockholm, Sweden]
Postcard from "Freddie Stalhammar" of Stockholm, Sweden to "Joe C. Willis" of Brady, Texas. The image on the front of the postcard depicts a harbor, with many sailboats docked side by side along the water's edge.
Date:
December 3, 1947
Creator:
Stalhammar, Freddie & Hollstrand, L.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Henry Charles Johanson Home, East Sweden, Texas]
Photograph of the Henry Charles Johanson Home in East Sweden in the early 1900s, a place that his mother and father had left to move into Brady because his mother did not like it.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Jones, Diane
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Dahlberg Family, West Sweden, 1939]
Photograph of O. G. Dahlberg in 1939 with his four sons - David, Earl, Virgil, and Leonard - and grandson Lester in front of O. G.'s West Sweden Home (a stucco house with exterior arches).
Date:
1939
Creator:
Dahlberg, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Church Exterior]
Photograph of the exterior view of the finished church in 1911 (building no longer standing).
Date:
1911
Creator:
Easterwood, Connie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Hanson Sisters]
Photograph of six of the Hanson sisters, standing in order of height from left to right with the tallest sister holding the basketball, posed identically with their hands on each other's shoulders.
Date:
1918
Creator:
Easterwood, Connie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Virgil and Lillie Dahlberg]
Photograph of Virgil and Lillie Dahlberg before leaving for church at O. G. Dahlberg's West Sweden home with their automobile behind them.
Date:
August 6, 1950
Creator:
Dahlberg, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Congregation after Dinner]
Photograph of a church congregation enjoying dinner outdoors. Most of the people in the image are turned away from the camera, except for a child and two women.
Date:
1934
Creator:
Hurd, Bobby
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Hanson Sisters]
Photograph of the Hanson School's 1918 basketball team, made up of six of the Hanson sisters, facing forward while lying on the ground in their uniforms and posing identically with the basketball in the center forefront.
Date:
1918
Creator:
Easterwood, Connie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of O. G. Dahlberg, McCulloch County, Texas]
Photograph of O. G. Dahlberg in 1949 with his grain truck and self-propelled combine, one of the first in McCulloch County.
Date:
[1939..1956]
Creator:
Dahlberg, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Blomstrom Family]
Photograph of the Blomstrom Family with the family dog on the front porch of their home in Melvin, Texas, 1910.
Date:
1910
Creator:
Blomstrom, Knute A., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of David Dahlberg]
Photograph of David Dahlberg in Air Force uniform while serving as a radio operator in Germany during the Korean "Conflict" in 1951. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph says, "me and some of the 'junk'."
Date:
1951
Creator:
Dahlberg, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a School Bus and Driver]
Photograph of a uniformed school bus driver, Bill Erlanson, with Dahlberg Consolidated District #21 school bus on 1942-01? after the Dahlberg family school (a common custom in early swedish communities) had consolidated with other area family schools. However, it was discontinued, and Dahlberg students went to school in Brady.
Date:
[1939..1956]
Creator:
Dahlberg, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Congregation before Dinner]
Photograph of the East Sweden Presbyterian Church at an outdoor dinner table. The men and women are mostly separated into groups.
Date:
1934
Creator:
Bobby, Hurd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Stable, Fairview, Texas]
Photograph of two men with three saddled horses and two men in a horse-drawn wagon in the early 1900s in Fairview outside the large Anders John Johnson barn that contained 10 animal stalls, a hay loft, and a garage for buggies, wagons, or implements.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Diane, Jones
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Helge Family Home]
Photograph of the Helge family home at Bear Creek in the early 1900s with lightning rods on the roof, a large barn and outbuilding on the left, an outhouse on the right, and a spacious yard enclosed by a white picket fence.
Date:
1900~
Creator:
Easterwood, Connie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Community School]
Photograph of a community schoolhouse. The teachers and students are grouped up in front of the school's entrance.
Date:
1930
Creator:
Easterwood, Connie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of O. G. and Judith Dahlberg]
Photograph of O. G. and Judith Dahlberg, standing on the front porch of their Brady home, with Judith holding a large potted hydrangea.
Date:
March 1951
Creator:
Dahlberg, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Hanson Sisters]
Photograph of six of the seven Hanson sisters (Minnie, Louise, Alice, Olive, Lily, and Esther) prior to their family's 1907 move to Galva, Illinois, to West Sweden, Texas.
Date:
1907
Creator:
Easterwood, Connie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Johanson Family, East Sweden, Texas, 1937]
Photograph of four generations of the Johansons at East Sweden in 1937: Mina Gustafson Johanson (the grandmother); Henry Charles Johanson (the grandfather), holding Van Diane Johanson (a four-years-old granddaughter); and George Henry Johanson (the son and father), holding April Jerodine Johanson (a three-years-old granddaughter and Diane's sister.)
Date:
1937
Creator:
Jones, Diane
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of O. G. and Judith Dahlberg]
Photograph of O. G. and Judith Dahlberg at their West Sweden home on their 25th anniversary.
Date:
1949
Creator:
Dahlberg, David W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of a Church Interior]
Photograph of the interior of the East Sweden Presbyterian Church. Pews are visible on the left and right. The center of the image shows a podium on a small stage, along with a piano. The walls are decorated with vertical-striped wallpaper above a wooden trim.
Date:
2006
Creator:
Bobby, Hurd
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photographs of Railroad Construction]
Two photographs of railroad workers laying track in the East Sweden area while being observed by local residents. Both photographs demonstrate the use of a pulley system in properly aligning the rails.
Date:
1903
Creator:
Hurd, Bobby
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Blomstrom Family]
Photograph of Charles John Blomstrom and Family. Shown in this photo are: Alfred, Ester, Gunnar, Charles, Ellen, Phillip, Violet, and Knute.
Date:
1909
Creator:
Blomstrom, Knute A., Jr.
System:
The Portal to Texas History