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[Barn at Beasley Crossing]

Description: Photograph of a small barn. The building is made up of log walls and a plank roof. A typed note on the back of the photograph says, "Original barn built by Judge John Beasley at Beasley Crossing on Colorado River in 1847." Judge John Beasley came to Erath County in 1860 from Stoddard County, Missouri, and later moved to McCulloch County. Beasley was the first County Judge and was on the committee to select Brady as the county seat.
Date: unknown
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[House in McCullough County]

Description: Photograph of a house in McCullogh County. It is a one-story building with a paneled roof and a shaded patio. Inscription on the back reads "House at scene of [illegible] massacre, Lindley Crossing, McCullogh County."
Date: unknown
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Photograph of a Church Interior]

Description: 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
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of a Community School]

Description: Photograph of a community schoolhouse. The teachers and students are grouped up in front of the school's entrance.
Date: 1930
Creator: Easterwood, Connie
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of a Congregation after Dinner]

Description: Photograph of a church congregation enjoying dinner outdoors. Most of the people in the image are turned away from the camera, except for a child and two women.
Date: 1934
Creator: Hurd, Bobby
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of a Congregation before Dinner]

Description: 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
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[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.
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
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
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of Charles Blomstrom and Sons]

Description: 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.
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of Church Exterior]

Description: Photograph of the exterior view of the finished church in 1911 (building no longer standing).
Date: 1911
Creator: Easterwood, Connie
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of Church Interior]

Description: 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
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of David Dahlberg]

Description: 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.
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of Helge Family Home]

Description: Photograph of the Helge family home at Bear Creek in the early 1900s with lightning rods on the roof, a large barn and outbuilding on the left, an outhouse on the right, and a spacious yard enclosed by a white picket fence.
Date: 1900~
Creator: Easterwood, Connie
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of Louise Hanson and Ernest Helge]

Description: Photograph of Louise Hanson and Ernest Helge on their wedding day with Louise's left hand posed as to display her wedding ring.
Date: December 10, 1924
Creator: Easterwood, Connie
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of O. G. and Judith Dahlberg]

Description: 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.
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of O. G. and Judith Dahlberg]

Description: Photograph of O. G. and Judith Dahlberg at their West Sweden home on their 25th anniversary.
Date: 1949
Creator: Dahlberg, David W.
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of the Blomstrom Family]

Description: 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.
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of the Blomstrom Family]

Description: 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.
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of the Dahlberg Family]

Description: 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.
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of the Dahlberg Family, West Sweden, 1939]

Description: 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.
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Photograph of the East Sweden Presbyterian Church]

Description: Photograph of an exterior view of a church, a single-story building surrounded by small hedges. The windows are all shaped with an arc at the top. The church's entrance has a THC historical marker next to it.
Date: 2006
Creator: Hurd, Bobby
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission
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