Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1934

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:38:30 +0000

That photo is a scan of one published in the Instructor (the Sunday School magazine) in 1934. No other information was provided beyond the location. They used pictures of chapels and Sunday School groups like this as fillers.

By: Steven Dunn

Steven Dunn — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:35:38 +0000

Justin,

Can you tell me where you might have found the picture of the Kapaa Chapel? My father was serving a mission there at the time and helped to build the chapel, i believe the one in Kapaa.. Is that chapel the first of those to be built on the Kauai?

By: Hunter

Hunter — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:37:46 +0000

Justin, you are awesome. Thanks.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:32:28 +0000

BYU founders’ day–It does look like HJ Grant in the back. It kind of looks like DO McKay to his left and JR Clark in between and below them. That said, I’m not sure McKay would have been in the First Presidency at that point.

To me, the man in between and below looks like John A. Widtsoe. In any event, I’ve found that HJG spoke at that particular Founders’ Day (October 1934), and DOM was sustained a member of the First Presidency that same month, so the identifications are very plausible.

By: Maurine

Maurine — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:27:31 +0000

There is quite a contrast between the RS board of Kanab and the RS board of St. George, although it may possibly be just the quality of the pictures. If the quality were better, we might see more happy faces in the Kanab picture. There is a hint of a couple, at any rate.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:03:51 +0000

By golly, you’re right, chris!

By: chris

chris — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:01:06 +0000

I wouldn’t let those Spuds off so easily. I hear they like to dress up like George Washington on a daily basis in Idaho. (the thought crossed my mind that an Indian Chief wasn’t a member of the ward as I was posting, but a man can dream can’t he?)

By: kevinf

kevinf — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:01:19 +0000

There are several familiar looking faces in that BYU picture. Too bad there weren’t captions with all the names.

I also looked very closely at the Montpelier Idaho picture. My mother and her family grew up in Bennington and Montpelier, but I don’t know which ward. My mother would only have been 10, but my grandmother could be in there. The picture quality makes it hard to tell, though, and I only knew her as a much older person. I’m glad these pictures are being preserved in some way.

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:55:52 +0000

The LDS basketball team picture is good. I know that during the 1930s the LDS team won the championship in England, though I don’t recall the year. That was a way missionaries proselyted. Missionaries enjoyed it. And the Church not only could make contacts with non-members and do PR work, but the impression that I have gotten in my research is that it emphasized the benefits of healthy living from the Word of Wisdom at a time the Church was stressing the WofW.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:24:12 +0000

The Church has microfilmed, and I think digitized, the old magazines, so these images will be preserved in some form, at least. The paper copies certainly won't last forever. (The rag paper used in the early decades of the Millennial Star still looks fresher and is far less crumbly than the acid wood pulp that was used for the Young Woman's Journal and Liahona: The Elder's Journal, especially.) Someone with the time and the right skills could probably already do quite a bit to clean up and sharpen up these images. Maybe Keepa can contribute to that just be creating an awareness of and interest in these images of our past, scattered through the pages of so many old periodicals.