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Svenskarne I Texas I Ord Och Bild, 1838-1918: Volume 2
Compilation of photos with biographical and historical information about people in Texas of Swedish descent.
Date:
1919
Creator:
Severin, Ernest, 1871-; Scott, Alf. L. (Alfred L.), 1862-; Westerberg, T. J. (Thor Julius), 1874- & Öjerholm, J. M. (John Melcher), 1858-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Svenskarne I Texas I Ord Och Bild, 1838-1918: Volume 1
Compilation of photos with biographical and historical information about people in Texas of Swedish descent.
Date:
1919
Creator:
Severin, Ernest, 1871-; Scott, Alf. L. (Alfred L.), 1862-; Westerberg, T. J. (Thor Julius), 1874- & Öjerholm, J. M. (John Melcher), 1858-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Family Tree of Reginald Engdahl and Catherine Caroline Engdahl
Document listing the family tree of Edward Reginald Engdahl and Catherine Caroline Engdahl with biographical information for all the people listed. The second page of the document is an illustration of a tree with branches labelled with names. The document is then organized by family and chronologically, beginning Edward Reginald Engdahl's ancestors, then Catherine Caroline Engdahl's ancestors, then listing their children and grandchildren, and Edward and Catherine's siblings family details.
Date:
1989
Creator:
Engdahl, George & Striegler, Beverly Engdahl
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Swedish Inscription in Lundgren Family Bible]
Inscription and poem written in Swedish listing the birth and death dates of "Lundgren," in the Lundgren family bible.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Luella Lundgren's Writing Journal]
Notebook containing the school work of Luella Lundgren with assignments dated from January 24, 1918 and 1926. The notebook includes stories, a letter, and handwriting exercises.
Date:
1918
Creator:
Lundgren, Luella
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[History of East Sweden, Texas]
Narrative history of East Sweden in Mcculloch County, Texas detailing the people who moved to the area and ran the local businesses. The author includes anecdotes from her childhood in the area and some information about her children who at the time of writing were fighting in World War II.
Date:
September 25, 1942
Creator:
Engdahl, Katie
Object Type:
Text
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
Object Type:
Photograph
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
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Family Register: Claus P. Engdahl and Wilhemina Erikson Engdahl & John J. Johnson and Nina Norman Johnson
Document listing the descendants of Claus P. Engdahl and Wilhemina Erikson Engdahl and John J. Johnson and Nina Norman Johnson. Each family member has their address and phone number included if known or is marked deceased. The children of Edward Reginald and Catherine Caroline Engdahl are listed first, then their siblings's children.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
[Documents Related to the Reunion of the West Sweden Church Confirmation Classes, 1930]
Notebook containing organizational information for a reunion of the confirmation classes of the West Sweden Church, held August 31, 1930, and letters from the invited alumni.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Hanson, Harry; Hanson, Ruth; Dahlberg, Alice; Dahlberg, Leonard & Rose, Mrs. R. L.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter From Alan H. Winquist to Carlton Lundgren, May 28, 1983]
Letter from Alan H. Winquist to Carlton Lundgren discussing an inscription in Lundgren's family bible which he had asked Winquist to translate. The letter also mentions a newspaper article in the Brady Herald featuring Winquist.
Date:
May 28, 1983
Creator:
Winquist, Alan H.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Metodist Episkopal-Kyrkans Psalmbok
Psalm book listing lyrics to various Methodist-Episcopal religious songs in Swedish.
Date:
1884
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 4, March, 1945]
An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter with updates on circumstances in the lives of congregation members and the community; a description of a recent visit by missionaries who had been interned in China, including how they ate their East Sweden meal with chop sticks; details of area churches' stand-by plans for a V-E day prayer service to celebrate "news of the collapse of Germany"; and a sermon urging that, at the end of World War II, "we... be more than conquerors" and ensure that not only has the war been won but so also has the peace.
Date:
March 1945
Creator:
Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 5, April, 1945
An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, updating both the congregation and the servicemen, including a warning to the congregation that the season for "peddlers" is approaching and a tip for getting rid of them; compares the "equipment" needed by a Christian soldier to that of a military soldier; and expresses hope that the meeting of the United Nations will lead to a creation of a permanent world organization that will "assure the peach (sic.) for all time future."
Date:
April 1945
Creator:
Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 6, May, 1945
An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, reporting the names and locations of 19 East Sweden area servicemen; describing area V-E Day services; commentating on food shortages while also reporting that more than 1200 disobedient prisoners of war have been placed on bread and water for more than a week and "are put to work gardening to raise their own food in part"; providing a local calendar of events; and characterizing the Germans as self-styled "godless supermen" who forgot that the nations they attacked would "rise with vehemence in defense of their righteous principles" as should all Christians striving to have a "VS Day" (Victory in the Soul.)
Date:
May 1945
Creator:
Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 7, June, 1945
An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, reporting changes in locations and duties of servicemen affected by V-E Day; giving details of social, community, and business happenings; providing the yield per acre of the Prisoner of War Camp's oat field and stating that many of the prisoners of war have been "evacuated" in labor groups of 15 to other places; reporting that the McCulloch County drive to collect used clothing for Europe has exceeded its quota; and expressing the idea that the best basis for a democratic government is "Protestant Christianity."
Date:
June 1945
Creator:
Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 8, July, 1945
An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing military updates, including the news that Pvt. Billy Gallaway, a former prisoner of war in Germany, has returned home; commentating, after two women joined the thresher crew, that women "do take the places of men"; reporting on the extensive damage and one death resulting from "The Cyclone" of June 18; expressing gratitude that the constitution for world peace has been written, including a "provision for codification of International Law"; and warning of the dangers when a person deviates even slightly off the right moral path.
Date:
July 1945
Creator:
Dewey, Anston T.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 9, August, 1945
An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing more local news than military updates and revealing that area ministers are making plans for a V-J Day but that plans are "(C)ensored for the present"; announcing the impending closing of Curtis Field and the Prisoners of War Camp; and making a metaphorical comparison of different types of souls to different types of soils.
Date:
August 1945
Creator:
Dewey, Anston T.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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]
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]
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
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 10, September 1945
An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, discussing World War II's V-J Day, the return of McCulloch County area troops, and a brief retrospective of the start of the war. The writer states that "it was also in the Providence of God" that the allies won the war, and goes further to say that it is faith, not military power, that brings world peace. The end of the newsletter provides thanks on behalf of the church for the end of the war.
Date:
September 1945
Creator:
Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 11, October, 1945
An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, first discussing the return of local troops from the Asian front of World War II. The text calls attention to a letter from Chester G. Turn, a soldier stationed in China who expresses his disdain for the state of the nearby countries in Asia. Afterward, the newsletter lists local church events, such as a harvest, an ice cream party, and a birthday. The end of the newsletter recognizes October 7th, 1945 as "World Wide Communion Sunday", a global service for protestant churches.
Date:
November 1945
Creator:
Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History