Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1915

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:45:57 +0000

Oh. My. Goodness.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:18:58 +0000

The photo of the missionaries in York reminds me of the photo of missionary companions found here. (I'm joking.)

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:49:10 +0000

That’s the very gentleman I suspected Martin had in mind. But alas, Rick, I fear ‘dos like that are born, not made.

By: Rick Grunder

Rick Grunder — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:43:13 +0000

RE: #10, “Mormons have always been funny-looking.” So can someone recommend a barber who can make my hair look like the guy in that LaGrand, Oregon basketball team, viewer’s left end of the back row?

By: Ian Cook

Ian Cook — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:39:58 +0000

The one guy holding up his arm appears to be the only person smiling. It makes on wonder if he and the other guy are actually up to no good.

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:23:02 +0000

Thanks for these. The photos of the Girls’ Choruses help me visualize the young women who submitted queries to the “I have a question” posts.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:14:35 +0000

Well, that settles it. Mormons have always been funny-looking.

Who was it that stood at the pulpit and announced “If you ever doubted God has a sense of humor, you’ve never seen what I see now”?

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:13:27 +0000

And, by the way, thanks for another fine set of photographs. I just wish they were bigger, clearer, and there were more of them, with names of all the people in them, and that my eyes were better.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:11:30 +0000

The Italian Fascist Party didn’t adopt their salute until 1919 and the Nazi Party appropriated the symbol, using it sporadically beginning in 1923 and making its use mandatory in 1926. In 1915, Europe was in the middle of war, and both Hitler and Mussolini were enlisted men in their nation’s armies. (Well, Hitler was actually an Austrian, and didn’t become a German citizen until 1932.)

At any rate, I think we can rest assured that whatever the Henefer brethren were doing it doesn’t have those odious connections.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:55:46 +0000

I hope they’re just waving in Henefer. Otherwise I’m clueless. And I don’t know the story behind the missionary picture, either, but am guessing that they did line up according to size precisely because their sizes *were* so different — the bicycles all look the same, and the point at which the top of his tire hit the tallest elder is very different from where it hits the shortest elder. I don’t think it’s just perspective.