Comments on: The Whole Year Through: Relief Society Magazine, 1939

By: Chris K.

Chris K. — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:36:15 +0000

Torleif was my Grandfather. Curt, I appreciate your interest in his work. Our Family organization has a web page http://www.knaphusfamily.org. that identifies more of his work.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:50:36 +0000

GROANNNNNNNNNNNNNNN…………..

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:26:52 +0000

Used, of course, against the fowlest of rioters.

By: reed russell

reed russell — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:34:34 +0000

That’s the blunderbuss – the Pilgrims’ riot gun of choice.

By: m&m

m&m — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:19:07 +0000

Help me with the Nov one — is that a gun on the back of the chair? I feel like I’m missing something on that one.

By: CurtA

CurtA — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:41:15 +0000

Equally interesting is the 2 cent postage for a magazine delivery. Also look at the addresses that just say ‘City”. I recall some of those. One of the adressees is Elder Albert [E.] Bowen. He was called as an apostle two years earlier, 1937, an Idaho native; hoorah!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:55:29 +0000

You can see that others this year have machine-printed addresses, so I’m guessing that particular copy was addressed by hand because the addressee had just subscribed, or her copy was lost in the mail and she requested another one, or something else equally idiosyncratic.

Can you imagine addressing a subscription list by hand? Yet it seems to have been done that way on. I can’t give you even an approximation of a date when it changed, but some of the 19th century newspapers that are in the church archives (microfilmed) have handwritten (heavily abbreviated) addresses. Ouch!

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:09:26 +0000

And what of the hand-written address on the Sept. cover? Surely the magazine didn’t address every subscription by hand… Is there another explanation?

By: CurtA

CurtA — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000

About Torleif’s other works, a complete catalog may be impossible. I just mentioned the ones I had seen and noted. He worked on many temples. The bas-relief friezes on the Cardston and Mesa temples are his work. He helped Avard Fairbanks with the oxen on the Hawaii temple’s font. He did a “Children’s Monument” at the West Gate of the SLC City and County building. I haven’t seen that one but will look on my next trip downtown. The handcart monument was first done in a small table-top scale (1926) and made life-size for Temple Square in 1947.

As a bit of a sidling postscript, we can read today’s Deseret News or Tribune for the obituary of Avard Fox Fairbanks, Avard’s 90-year-old son, not an artist but inventor.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:25:26 +0000

I’ve heard the idea before, reed, but never seen it put poetically before! Whatever the original source, it is now part of my own repertoire.