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[Photograph of a School Bus and Driver]

Description: 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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[News Article of a Wedding Anniversary, 1951]

Description: Photocopy of a Brady Standard Herald news article reporting the 60th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. August Young (including the names of their children) and tracing the couple's experiences in traveling from Sweden to America and McCulloch County and also noting changes in the county and Brady observed by them during the years of their residence.
Date: January 8, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

Minutes of Sweden Presbyterian Church

Description: Minutes recorded from meetings within the Sweden Presbyterian Church. The meetings are dated and described as to what occurred during the meeting; at the bottom of the meeting descriptions are signatures from church officials.
Date: 1905/1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

Genealogical Record, Ancestors, Relatives, Descendants

Description: Genealogical record showing the family histories of the Steelhammer and another family of descendants from Friedrick Johann Otte. This record contains pedigree charts, and histories of individual family members; each individual is named in the index. Also included are various photographs of some of the family members.
Date: 1964
Creator: Steelhammer, Ernest Ray
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of a Stable, Fairview, Texas]

Description: 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[History of East Sweden, Texas]

Description: 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

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

Description: 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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Newspaper
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[C. J. Nelin's Order of Final Naturalization]

Description: Order of Final Naturalization by the District Court of San Saba County, Texas, entered on 1891-12-12, admitting Carl John Nelin to citizenship after a determination by the court that he has satisfied all residence requirements, demonstrated good moral character and a dedication to the principles of the United States, has sworn to support the Constitution of the United States, and has renounced allegiance to the King of Sweeden (sic.) and all other foreign powers.
Date: December 12, 1891
Creator: Marcott, Ruth Nelin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

C. J. Nelin Farm History

Description: A history of the ownership of the C. J. Nelin farm from 1882-04-24 when it was purchased by Peter Getziller until 2000-03-?? when it was sold to Bobye Hurd.
Date: [1958..2000]
Creator: Marcott, Ruth Nelin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of Blomstrom Family]

Description: Photograph of the Blomstroms with five of their children (Gunnar, Philip, Knute, Violet, and Alfred), with the four boys adopting identical poses with their chopping hoes, in front of their Melvin home. The home sports vines on its porch posts and a young tree in its front yard.
Date: 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of the Hanson Sisters]

Description: 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission
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