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[Photograph of the Swedish Free Mission Church Historic Marker]
Photograph of a Texas Historical Commission historical marker at the Swedish Free Mission Church. The marker provides a brief history of the church, as well as an explanation for its change in name during its development.
Date:
July 27, 2015
Creator:
Hargoves, Carolyn
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
[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
[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 the Anders John Johnson Home, Fairview, Texas]
Photograph of the Anders John Johnson Home (which was later moved into Brady) as it appeared in Fairview in the early 1900s.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Diane, Jones
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 Hanson Sisters]
Photograph of the seven Hanson sisters in the 1960s, lined up side-by-side next to a small building.
Date:
1960~
Creator:
Easterwood, Connie
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of the Dahlberg Family]
Photograph of O. G. Dahlberg with daughter Alice and son David, standing on the front porch of O. G. Dahlberg's Brady home.
Date:
August 1951
Creator:
Dahlberg, David W.
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 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 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 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
[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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
[Photo of Children at the West Sweden School]
Photograph of nineteen students and two adults, likely the teachers, at the West Sweden School in McCulloch County, Texas. The children vary in age from elementary to teens and are wearing coats. "West Sweden School" is written on the back.
Date:
1925
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photo of Lynney Lincoln Lundgren]
Cropped reprint photo of Lynney Lincoln Lundgren in a group of children, wearing a knit jacket. Lundgren appears to be eight or nine years old. Handwritten on back: "1925 Lynney Lincoln Lundgren West Sweden School."
Date:
1925
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Photograph of Louise Hanson and Ernest Helge]
Photograph of Louise Hanson and Ernest Helge on their wedding day with Louise's left hand posed as to display her wedding ring.
Date:
December 10, 1924
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