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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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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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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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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Two students looking at "Christian Activities" board that contains a quote from Milton, "There is nothing that makes men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. Wealth is of the heart, not of the hand." Student Senate flyer is visible beyond students.
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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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Servers, cooks, and other college event participants are pictured in this panoramic photograph. Several carry copies of the Lutheran Minnesota Conference newpaper, Minnesota Statstidning. The group is pictured in front of what was then the campus gymnasium, where event meals were available for 25 cents.
Studio portrait of the women's basketball team in 1920. Sixteen players pose with coach in front holding basketball with ""B.A. '20"" written on it and two players seated on floor holding Bethel pennant.
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Bethel Male Chorus group photo 1939-1940 with director seated at piano and chorus standing behind. Future President of Bethel College and Seminary, Carl H. Lundquist, in front row, third from the right.
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Bethel Theological Seminary Faculty and Students 1927 pictured from left to right: (top row) George Hultgren, Director of Music; Adolph Olson, A.B., B.D.; Karl J. Karlson, Ph.D., Dean; G. Arvid Hagstrom, D.D., President; Arvid Gordh, Th.D.; E.A. Finstrom, Th.M., Ph.B. (sic), B.D.; Florence A. Price, Instructor in Elocution; (second row) Florence Nystrom; Willard Samuelson; Emily Satterberg; Lloyd Dahlquist; Lloyd Lenning; Arthur Nyborg; (third row) Gunnar Lindahl; Roger Wickstrand; Oscar Anderson; Albert Berg; Joseph Friberg; Conrad Peterson; Reuben Olson; Ernest E. Nelson; Linnea Stjernstrom; Frank Anderson; (fourth row) Arthur Ellison; Carl Seaquist; Fred Swedberg; Adolph Carlson; Reuben Holm; Elvert Forssell; Alphin Conrad; George Magnuson; Clarence Wallin; Marc? ?itzell; (bottom row) Ernest Nelson; Henry Peterson; Edwin Bonander; Reuben Omark; Alfred Shostrom; Alvin Johnson; Alfred Larson; Eric Frykenberg; Lawrence Selin; Gordon Carlson; Carl Olsson
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Large crowd observing cornerstone laying ceremony for Steensland Library. Steensland Library; cornerstone laying; Ellestad, nils J. (1845-1912) vice-president of the United Norwegian Church in America to right of cornerstone; Kildahl, John N. (1857-1921) college president, with cane to left of cornerstone. See http://www.stolaf.edu/collections/archives/shows/steensland/index.html
Mohn family sitting in front of Main overlooking Northfield. From left to right; Adults: Unknown, Unknown, College President Thorbjorn N. Mohn, Edward Mohn, Mrs. Mohn, Mrs. O.G. Felland. Children in front: George Mohn (in carriage), Ray Mohn, John Mohn, Thonny Felland, ""Pooh-Bah""- the campus dog mascot. See http://www.stolaf.edu/collections/archives/shows/cornerstone/index.html
1906 academy graduates. Academy graduates; Four girls at right: Mohn, Anna (1888-1963); Felland, Elsa; Hauge, Katherine; Ytterboe, Evelyn; two from right Nesdahl, Severt; four from right Thompson, J. Jorgenson (1881-1963); six from right Storholt, Eivind. Notice students clutching rolled diplomas.