Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1942

By: Jared T.

Jared T. — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:34:42 +0000

That’s neat, John. Can you identify anyone else in the photo?

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:28:45 +0000

Hooray! I’m always so pleased when a reader makes a personal connection to a post here!

I’ve sent the jpeg to John (remember, everybody, whether you comment regularly or not, if you ever want a jpeg of any of the post illustrations for your personal use, just ask).

By: John Tippets

John Tippets — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:29:09 +0000

Ardis,
In the Anchorage branch picture that’s my mother (Alta Tippets) in the center holding yours truly…could I request a jpeg of it (it’s not one that I have). Was it in the Relief Society Magazine? John

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:59:58 +0000

I’m afraid not, Clark. These are all photos that were printed in church magazines, on cheap newsprint-like paper, with the halftone (dot) process. Most of them were printed much smaller — sometimes in postage-stamp sizes — than they appear here. I’ll send you the jpeg of the Bern photo in case you can manipulate it in some way that brings it into better focus, but I don’t know how to get a better scan using the materials available to me.

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:23:47 +0000

I have family that I’m sure is in the Bern Switzerland photo. (I have a gold and green ball photo from Bern around the same era.) Is there a way to get a higher-resolution scan of that photo?

By: Amy Nuffer

Amy Nuffer — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:18:07 +0000

Edwin and Frank must have been my grandfather’s cousins – his name is Stan, and I think that branch of the family moved to Oregon sometime pre-1945. The other families are the Kerrs and Johnsons, although they didn’t live right in town. What a great story about sledding! We have our occasional family reunions up at that house I think. Still has a large orchard too!

By: Curt A.

Curt A. — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:47:07 +0000

I am sure I knew many of them. As to Nuffers, I remember Edwin and Frank. Nuffers owned a house at the top of the Creamery Hollow hill and we used to sleigh ride down the hill (steep and icy) from the top of their lane. This was back during the second “Little Ice Age” when snow squeaked when you walked on it with “galoshes”.

By: Bruce Crow

Bruce Crow — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:37:14 +0000

With photos as recent as these, I half expect to see my parents in one. Not this time, though.

Pretty cool.

By: Amy Nuffer

Amy Nuffer — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:17:19 +0000

That 20th Ward Primary room looks mighty familiar – I’m pretty sure that’s my Relief Society room now. Fun to see it from 1942! And I was having the same thoughts about the Preston photos – probably lots of those kids are still alive, and I bet some of my family are in them. Three of my grandparents were raised in Preston, but I don’t know what wards they were in. Curt, it sounds like you may have known at least one of the families, the Nuffers!

Great stuff, as usual, Ardis! Thanks!

By: Curt A.

Curt A. — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:23:29 +0000

Those Preston Idaho 6th Ward photos have some faces that look familiar. The boys are close to my age in 1942. I was in the First Ward. I think I can see Dave McClun and one of the Nuffer boys, but the pic is too small and too low-res to be sure. In the earlier days, Preston was divided into four wards, with the four quadrants of the town providing the boundaries. The crossing of Main and Oneida streets was a “Four Corners” where I guess we could have stood in all the wards at once but one might have gotten run over by a team of big Percheron work horses pulling a milk wagon. As the town expanded, a 5th (east of town and called “Egypt” for some now-obscure reason); and 6th, to the south. A 7th was added and the stake divided into Franklin and Oneida a few years after the 6th ward photos taken.

Thanks for this, Ardis.