Comments on: Latter-day Missionaries, 1912

By: Craig Christopherson

Craig Christopherson — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:01:00 +0000

Note 37 – about “the picture of three men in Trondhjem, Norway is labeled incorrectly”. I agree that it is labeled incorrect. The man sitting on the left is Martin Christopherson, he is my g-grandfather. I also have large copy of the same photo.
Thanks
Craig Christopherson

By: Astrid

Astrid — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:15:44 +0000

The picture of the three men in Trondhjem, Norway is labeled incorrectly. The man sitting on the left is Martin Christopherson (not the one standing). He is the brother of my gg-grandmother, and I have plenty of pictures of him to know what he looks like.
Thanks.
Astrid

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:39:20 +0000

Yes! The Church History Library would appreciate having them (preferably the originals, but high quality scans would also be useful). If they’re identified, so much the better — but even if they aren’t identified by name, if they’re of missionaries or members, the Church wants ‘em.

Contact the Acquisitions Department, Church History Library, 15 East North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-1600 (email at churchhistorylibrary [at] ldschurch [dot] org). Brad Westwood is the manager of that department — he’d assign a missionary to work with you to get any information about the pictures that you might have, and how they came into your possession, and whatever else they might want to find out.

Thanks for looking around for someone who wants them, rather than tossing them. Truly, these kinds of generous deposits into the library are a historian’s dream come true.

By: kathy johnson

kathy johnson — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:28:43 +0000

I’m scanning my old photos and I have a huge stack of missionaries that went to Norway in the early 1900′s. Any idea who would be interested in them?

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:15:18 +0000

Nate, I’ll channel Pres. Kimball and say, “Do it!”

By: Nate W.

Nate W. — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:39:34 +0000

That reminds me, Ardis–I really need to get my Grandfather’s missionary journal from my aunt and let the Church History Library copy it. He was in the “old” Japan Mission from 1918-1921 or thereabouts. I have a picture of him with David O. McKay during his trip there, which I’m sure you’ve seen…

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 05:49:05 +0000

Janet, I can only reproduce the captions as they appeared in the magazines where these photos were published. Your comment will have to alert other visitors that the identification of that elder may not be correct.

By: Janet A.

Janet A. — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 04:04:12 +0000

What wonderful pictures. In the picture from Montgomery, Alabama the 3rd person from the left is not Guy V. Lamoreaux. I am a granddaughter of Guy and this is not him. Will this be corrected?

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:36:24 +0000

For what it’s worth: My dad was an assistant manager for JC Penny in Arizona. He always told us how the Indian missionaries would come in to buy jeans and white shirts.

By: Cam Steinbusch

Cam Steinbusch — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:34:32 +0000

About that picture about the S.W.I.M. I seem to recall a New Era article in the 1970′s that featured a missionary on horseback and wearing jeans and boots, it had pictures and everything. I could be wrong though as to the mission.