Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1904 – updated

By: Don James

Don James — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:54:35 +0000

I have a picture that I think is a school in Utah around 1870-1890 I would like to see if someone could identify it, they are all wearing large cone shapped toped hats, and there is one very old man in the pic
I have relatives from utah that were LDS but I dont see them in the pic,

Help

Don

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:11:40 +0000

They’re all from the old church magazines. Most of the ward groups like those in this set come from the Juvenile Instructor; I find a lot fewer pictures, but good ones, of children and missionaries and teens in the other magazines. They’re mostly used as fillers in those magazines, but somehow when you bring a whole group of them together this way, they add up to something more than their individual parts, I think.

I’m glad to hear from several of you that you aren’t getting tired of this kind of post yet.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:58:45 +0000

Ardis-

I always enjoy your photo features. Where do you find the images?

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:06:01 +0000

I know the feeling, Left Field! I’ve put together another photo post to use at a later date, this one of missionary pictures from 1912, and the one at the very top jumped off the magazine page at me because my grandfather, in a picture younger than I had ever seen before, was staring up at me.

Did you get a copy of that Australian picture, or should I watch for it to get you a scan?

By: Left Field

Left Field — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:38:32 +0000

I was once looking up something in the IE from about 1915, and was startled to turn the page and see a photograph of my grandfather in a group of missionaries in Australia.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:45:18 +0000

Bruce, once in a great while, especially when it is a small group of missionaries, I'll find names listed. But these group photos of branches have never been identified in the places I've found them, beyond the name of the branch or mission. They were sent to the magazines (Juvenile Instructor, especially) in response to requests for ward pictures, so I doubt that they even came in with names. We can hope that copies may have been retained by branch members with identifications attached, but I think otherwise they are lost to time.

By: Tracy M

Tracy M — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:30:09 +0000

Those are so fun to look at…

By: Bruce Crow

Bruce Crow — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:15:03 +0000

I’ve often wondered, did these photos come with names or are their faces condemned to anonymity? I suspect the only captions sent with the photos were the ones you provided. It is so much work to reconstruct the names (if it is even possible) and so much easier for some to collect them at the time.

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:55:00 +0000

Ha. And the elders in my mission in the 80′s teased me for wearing wide 70′s ties.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:41:49 +0000

Wow – the “bump-it”. [shaking head] Maybe the folks at Yearning for Zion would be interested?

Anyhow, to keep the conversation on such things as hair and hats, I have to point out the awesome hats of the men in the Syria picture. Them’s cool!