Broomball player about to shoot on goal with teammates and opponents in front of goal. Icy ground, cold temperatures, and slippery footing are no deterrent for this popular intramural sport.
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Football player in dirty uniform sitting on medical examining table with nurse in full uniform standing next to him. Several sport team posters on wall in background.
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Four female student musicians in Scandinavian folk dress playing from book of ""Christmas Strings"". Full-length bulletin board about Bethel in background.
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Six female students in white robes and silver tinsel belts around female student in white robe, red belt and wreath with lighted candles around her head. This dress is for the traditional celebration of Saint Lucia, which is a Scandinavian celebration of Christmas.
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Choir and orchestra performing in Scandinavian folk dress during the 1980 Festival of Christmas. Conductor in foreground and horse drawn sleigh landscape mural in the background.
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Orchestra and choir during Festival of Christmas with banner in background that reads, ""Glory to God, Glory to God, Glory to God in the Highest"". Photo was taken from back of Robertson Center auditorium and shows the front and right side of audience.
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Choir, orchestra and banner visible in background with silhouetted audience in foreground during the Festival of Christmas concert. Extended exposure shows streaks of light from candlelight procession onto the stage at the Robertson Center. The banner on the wall reads, "In the beginning was the word, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us we beheld his glory."
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Sixteen players and coach of the Bethel College women's basketball team pose for a silly, fun photograph in Robertson Center gym. Uniforms include the word "Bethel" and their number on the front of the shirts.
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Construction site of Bethel Student housing, Arden Village buildings, during winter on Arden Hills Campus. Trucks, cars, and various construction equipment is spread across the area.
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Scandia Church, one of the first Swedish Baptist church buildings in Minnesota, moving on a truck in front of Nelson Hall on its way to new location on grounds of Bethel Seminary.
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Scandia church approaching the Arden Hills Campus on the back of a truck. The procession on the road is lead by a truck bearing a ""Wide Load"" sign followed by the truck carrying the church as they approach a sign that reads ""Arden Hills Valentine Park"".
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Sign "Private Driveway Bethel College" at the entry to Arden Hills campus with College building visible in the distance during winter. Picture is facing towards the East entrance from Old Snelling Avenue.
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Students gathered to watch musicians performing in the old library catacombs in 1972. Blue and red marks on photograph are instructions for sizing and placement in a Bethel publication.
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Hilltop view of driveway between East Parking Lot and Physical Education Center, now the Robertson Center, under construction with Nelson Residence in background. Original photograph has markings directing how to use the photograph in a publication.
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Hilltop view looking southeast towards Academic Center and Fine Arts Center college buildings under construction. Partial wall and frames visible with crane in the background.
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First floor and pillars visible on the construction site of the Learning Resources Center which includes the Dining Hall and will later become the Hagstrom Student Services Center.
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Female student teacher helping student reading at his desk in 1971. Red marks are from cropping instructions when photo was added to a Bethel publication.
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Construction site of the installation of Bells on the south wall of the Seminary Chapel, Jan. 1970. Snow blankets the ground as two men use long ladders and scaffolding for the installation.
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Tip-off with both players leaping and reaching for ball in mid-air. Surrounding the action is their teammates and spectators seated in bleachers of Physical Education Center/Robertson Center.
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Sign indicates future "Bethel College Location" in a field of grass. Beyond the sign, construction of Nelson Hall, its first student housing building, can be seen including scaffolding and building materials.
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Bethel Hockey Club inside locker room in 1966-67. Player #4 is Barry Johnson. This is the first year that the team was an official Club with the hopes to become an intercollegiate sport in the future.
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Bethel College and Seminary President, Faculty and Administrators inside Seminary Chapel. From left to right are Gordon Johnson, Lee Eliason, Virgil Olson, President Carl Lundquist, Ron Youngblood and unnamed person stand in front of empty chairs while smiling and talking with one another.
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Crowd gathered to hear presenters for Seminary building dedication in October 1965. Light posts, hillside, and south end of Seminary complex are visible above the crowd.
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Aerial view of proposed design for construction of Bethel's Arden Hills campus. Includes labels for seven kinds of structures: Seminary housing, Seminary academic complex, College housing, College academic complex, Physical Education Complex, Chapel, and Parking lots.
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Female student in lab coat looking at test tube during lab at Snelling Campus. Her lab notebook is open amidst a variety of other scientific equipment.
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Player and coach talking on the sideline surrounded by other players and another coach. Empty stands and goal posts are visible in the background. ""Crop here"" tape in top right corner cannot be removed without damaging the photo.
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After four years of effort, a hockey club was formed at Bethel called the Colts in its first year. Team members from left to right are: (Back row) Ken Rutz, Jim Friberg, Wade Blahoski, Barry Johnson, Jan Pitman, Doug Ghord, John Newstrand, Don Bester. (Front Row) Paul Erickson, Vince Bloom, Craig Kronholm, Carl Smith, Dave Gherke, Nelson Otto, Larry Shultz.
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Light snow covers the construction site for the front entrance to the Seminary building complex during winter. Exposed ground and construction equipment fill the space that will become the front entrance. The Classroom building is on the left, the Library building on the right and the entry atrium in the middle.
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Seminary student group and professor Ron Youngblood sitting and standing in chapel pews talking with each other. Stained glass windows visible in background and hymnal lying in pew in the foreground.
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Candlelight processional of choir from 1964 Festival of Christmas. Photographer used long term exposure to capture the streaks of light. Mural in background shows scenes from Jesus' birth and death.
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Heavy construction equipment sits in front of the Seminary building site on the Arden Hills Campus. The foundation and cleared land is shown with Lake Valentine in background beyond the tree line. Some red markings on photograph for use in Bethel publications.
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Dr. Carl Lundquist and Dr. Anton Pearson at Seminary groundbreaking with cornerstone cap engraved with Bible verse from Isaiah 6:8 ""Whom Shall I Send? Here I am! Send Me."" Men in background from left to right are: David Guston, Aphin Conrad, and Virgil Olson.
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Construction site of four Seminary buildings showing three of them, the Administration, Classroom, and Campus Center in scaffolding and the fourth, the Chapel, with only the basement and one wall. Beyond the buildings is a tree covered hill on the left and Lake Valentine on the right.
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Construction site of Bethel Seminary buildings covered in snow during winter. The Chapel basement is in the foreground and the metal frame of the Classroom building is in the background.
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Wooden posts mark the boundaries of where to dig on the site of the new Seminary building in Arden Hills. The front of a bulldozer emerges from the left side.
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President Carl Lundquist addressing the audience from a podium during the groundbreaking ceremony for Bethel Seminary at Arden Hills, 1964. Behind him is a panel holding ceremonial shovels, an American flag, a row of VIP's seated in chairs, and a view of Lake Valentine behind them.
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Cornerstone installation ceremony for Bethel Seminary in Arden Hills showing Bethel official sliding cornerstone into place. Man with film camera stands close by overlooking the process and crowd is visible in background behind a rope line. Piece of tape used for publication directions that reads ""Crop Here"" was not removable.
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Seminary groundbreaking by bulldozer on Arden Hills campus with four men in suits observing. This was one of the first construction projects on the Arden Hills property.
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Bethel running back diving over a pile of tacklers while referee and other players look on. Bethel bench and stands full of spectators in the background.
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Aerial view of future Arden Hills campus without any buildings taken from the northwest. The season is evidenced by snow visible on ground from the northwest. Old Snelling road can be seen at bottom-right, Snelling at top-right, and 694 highway at the top-left. Majority of Lake Valentine is visible in bottom-left corner.
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Basketball player shooting toward the basket from top of the arch during Women's basketball game with all players in view including the referee. Game is on the court in the Field house on the Snelling Avenue campus.
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Running play to the right side with most players in action blocking or running. View is from behind the offense and shows dust kicked by running back. Scoreboard in background with Bethel winning 14 to 0.
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Sign on DuPont Company property in Arden Hills that reads, "Explosives Keep Off No Trespassing or Shooting E.I. DuPont DeNemours & Co., Inc." It was used to store dynamite until Bethel bought it for the new campus. The sign intrigued President Lundquist so much that he adopted a new motto for Bethel; to be an "explosive" community for the gospel of Christ.
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Festival of Christmas concert with full choir, seven-paneled nativity scene in background and seated audience visible in the foreground. Photo taken from the back of the center aisle.
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Bethel football team in offensive formation in 1959-60. Players are wearing helmets without facemasks and facing camera with a building and car in the background.
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Homecoming queen candidates and attendants posed in front of curtain with "Pages from the Ages" above them in 1958. The ten students from left to right are: Carl Linden, Lynn Weaver, Paul Evans, Lyla Stimson, Art Erickson, E. Elaine Johnson (Crowned), Jack McNaughton, Annette Burgess, Don Johnson, and Marilyn Thorpe.
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Homecoming decoration in front of Hagstrom Residence, building number 1475 in 1958. Words on the display read, "The Hinge of History Pages from the Ages the most repeated fact Bethel devours Northland."
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The Sophomore float named "Axe the Jacks" in the Homecoming parade shows riders, Denny Kirkendahl (left) and Stan Sharman (right) in a barber shop scene.
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Bethel tackle and captain, Stu Luckman, and coaches, Lynn Lundin and Assistant coach Dave Dillon, kneeling on either side of him in open field looking off to the side.
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Bethel College and Seminary presents "Back to Bethel," a color film strip with Sound Record. Text imposed on photo of older man looking back to campus scene in far background.
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Choir seated in front of mural with shepherds, Mary and Joseph, and grown Jesus with words "And the Word was made flesh And dwelt among us." flanked by two Bible verses from John 1 during Festival of Christmas.
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Choir singing and watching conductor while orchestra is at rest during Festival of Christmas. Background has mural of nativity scene in a blocky, collage style.
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Aerial view of whole Snelling Avenue campus from the northwest. The campus buildings, courtyard and immediately surrounding neighborhood fill all but a small portion of the picture. The bottom-right portion shows Snelling Avenue and a piece of the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.
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Construction on Snelling Avenue campus with sign that reads "Bethel College & Seminary Site improvement Program scheduled completion June 1958." View of side entrance to Library in foreground and dormitories across courtyard with students walking amidst the construction.
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Construction on courtyard of Snelling Ave Campus with construction vehicles and sidewalk tiles waiting to be placed. Four buildings in background from left to right are: Library building, Field house, Edgren Residence, and Hagstrom Residence.
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Male student taking phone call with two friends standing by eagerly during Nik Dag in 1957. Nik Dag is a traditional designated time where the women ask out the men and the men must accept or not go to the dance with anyone.
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Female student making phone call while friend watches during Nik Dag in 1957. Nik Dag is a traditional designated time where the women ask out the men and the men must accept or not go to the dance with anyone.
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A sign that reads, "Bethel College and Seminary Women's Dormitory Addition" marks the construction site of the addition to the Bodien dormitory. Project was funded by the Housing and Home Finance Agency as Project No. Minnesota 21 CH:5.
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Student studying at desk jammed with stack of books, drinks, cups and drinking 7up bottle. Student is future college dean Dwight Jessup in October 1956.
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Male students playing and watching ping pong in the Edgren Residence Recreation Room. Room includes a deer head mounted over fireplace in the background and one student sitting on the piano at the side.
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Artist painting large portrait of a woman's head for Nik Dag in 1955. Nik Dag is the time of the year when it is traditional for the women to ask the men out to specifically planned activities. The artist is using a palette and holds four brushes in the opposite hand in addition the one holding the brush he is using to paint.
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Group of students sitting in coffee shop with Bibles, glasses, and mugs on top of the table. Photograph appeared in 1955 Bethel yearbook, The Spire, to illustrate activities during Deeper Life Week.
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