[Letter from Camilla Asplund to Cecil Nelin, September 6, 1988] (open access)

[Letter from Camilla Asplund to Cecil Nelin, September 6, 1988]

Letter from Camilla Asplund to Cecil Nelin discussing Carl J. Nelin's background and ancestry. Camilla is affiliated with the Swedish agency, SVAR.
Date: September 6, 1988
Creator: Asplund, Camilla
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Journey from Sweden to America (open access)

The Journey from Sweden to America

Booklet discussing the history of the Blomstrom family from their time in Sweden to their arrival in America. It includes photographs and illustrations of the family, as well as the coat of arms for Laurentz Blomstom; also included are genealogy lists and family histories.
Date: 2005~
Creator: Blomstrom, Helen Spiers
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Charles Blomstrom and Sons]

Photograph of Charles Blomstrom with sons Gunnar and Knute, both atop donkeys, and son Alfred, astraddle a young calf, in the barnyard of their Melvin home in 1910.
Date: 1910
Creator: Blomstrom, Knute A., Jr.
Object Type: Photograph
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.
Object Type: Photograph
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.
Object Type: Photograph
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
Object Type: Photograph
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
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Rosa C. Branning to Lenore, September 7, 1992] (open access)

[Letter from Rosa C. Branning to Lenore, September 7, 1992]

Letter from Rosa Commander Branning to Lenore (last name missing), reminiscing about Rosa's childhood in the West Sweden area during the 1920s and 1930s, especially the occasions she was at her Grandma Helge's home on Bear Creek, which Rosa describes with great detail, and both the good and the bad times she shared with her extensive family.
Date: September 7, 1992
Creator: Branning, Rosa C.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Church Interior]

Photograph of an interior view of an unfinished church, decorated for its first Christmas and also serving as the West Sweden community's first school.
Date: 1907
Creator: Connie, Easterwood
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of Nine Community School, McCulloch County, Texas]

Postcard of the Nine Community School, with several groups of men and children standing outside the two-storied building that features wooden construction, a chimney, and a bell tower.
Date: 1930~
Creator: Connie, Easterwood
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Autobiography of David Dahlberg] (open access)

[Autobiography of David Dahlberg]

Autobiography of David Dahlberg written for a high school English class assignment. His work covers his ancestral and family histories as well as his life from his birth up to 1944.
Date: November 8, 1944
Creator: Dahlberg, David
Object Type: Book
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.
Object Type: Photograph
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.
Object Type: Photograph
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.
Object Type: Photograph
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.
Object Type: Photograph
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.
Object Type: Photograph
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.
Object Type: Photograph
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.
Object Type: Photograph
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.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Envelope addressed to David Dahlberg, December 24, 1950] (open access)

[Envelope addressed to David Dahlberg, December 24, 1950]

Enveloped addressed to "Pvt. David W. Dahlberg" at "Lackland A.F.B." with a letter written the morning of Christmas Eve, 1950, from father O. G. Dahlberg which expresses his pride in his son David and sends good wishes for the holidays; and David Dahlberg in Air Force uniform while serving as a radio operator in Germany during the Korean "Conflict" in 1951.
Date: December 24, 1950
Creator: Dahlberg, O. G.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Farmer's Pocket Ledger (open access)

Farmer's Pocket Ledger

Book entitled "Farmer's Pocket Ledger" which contains general information about measurements conversions, John Deere products, and helpful tips, for example cistern capacities based on their dimensions. Pages 21 through 52 are a notebook with pages for each month's receipts and expenditures, crop records for current and past years, egg records, and stock breeding records. Some of the month's receipts and expenditures have been filled in by Lundgren.
Date: 1935?
Creator: Deere & Company
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 1, December, 1944 (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 1, December, 1944

The first issue of "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, explaining the purpose of the Tidings to be communication with the troops of World War II; sending individual holiday greetings from the men of the congregation; and containing a sermon that encourages an "All Out" commitment of both the troops and the congregation to "restore God's peace on earth" and to "win the spiritual conflicts between right and wrong on the battlefields of the soul."
Date: December 1944
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 2, January, 1945] (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 2, January, 1945]

An issue of "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing a sermon about "resolutions and revolutions" and sending New Year's greetings to the servicemen from the church's "Mothers, Wives, Sisters etc." that were written while the church members were gathered at the "old meeting place - School House" to celebrate New Year's Eve.
Date: January 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 3, February, 1945] (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 3, February, 1945]

An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, encouraging the servicemen to participate with the congregation in reading a "Book of the Bible per month"; providing information about the "boys," including a humorous account of Sgt. Jack Gallaway's having been "placed over" the WACs in England's signal corps; reporting a special service held at the Prisoner of War camp; urging the servicemen to not give up their personal freedoms, especially to tobacco or alcohol; and providing locations of Presbyterian Church Hospitality Houses throughout the country.
Date: February 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History