Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1908

By: Tracy M

Tracy M — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:54:27 +0000

These photos are fantastic. They help me feel our history in a very real way.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:52:17 +0000

I am always interested in these pictures, especially to note that the church was definitely an international church even at this early date of 1908.

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:45:41 +0000

Great pictures, as usual.

By: Bruce Crow

Bruce Crow — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:45:24 +0000

By 1909, my ancestors had left New Zealand. Plus they lived on the southern island, and both of these photos are on the northern island. I suspect none of the people that my Larson ancestors knew would have been in these photos.

By 1909, much of the sucessful missionary work in New Zealand was among the Maori. So sucessful that even today, in New Zealand, Mormonism is considered a “Maori” Church. The School shown in the first photo is an example of that sucess.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:05:05 +0000

I didn’t think I had any connection to any of these Saints in their beautiful Edwardian dress (including the beautifully dressed Norwegians), and a quick look at my family history told me that one of my ancestors was in Chicago for his dental training several years before this photo of the Saints in Chicago, but a look at the faces of the people in these pictures provides the same sort of connection I feel toward the fellow Saints I see on Sundays at church.

(And leaves me hoping that none of those intrepid missionaries fell into the volcano.)

Thanks for posting the pictures. It’s an enjoyable series.