WAUSundaySchoolPHColl086.xml Guide to the Sunday School Photograph Collection circa 1914-1921 Sunday School Photograph Collection Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2008 (Last modified: 4/19/2018)
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-06-26. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Sunday School Photograph Collection PH0086 1 box 61 black and white photographic prints circa 1914-1921 Snapshots, postcards and photographs of Sunday school, religious associations and related activities in Washington, circa 1914-1921 Collection materials are in English.

The first public institutionalized Sunday School in America was formed in Philadelphia in January, 1791, and was called the First Day School Society. It was formed to provide for the education of the poor female children of Philadelphia. Other large cities soon followed the lead of Philadelphia, including Pittsburgh, Boston, New York, Albany, Hartford, Baltimore, and Charleston.

In May of 1824, the American Sunday School Union was formed with the mission of spreading religious information, publications and establishing Sunday schools through the United States. Six years later missionaries were sent west into the Mississippi Valley. One missionary, Stephen Paxson, traveled from the Alleghenies to the Rockies, and established and organized over 1,300 Sunday Schools, with a total of 83,405 teachers and students. Many of Sunday Schools eventually grew to become churches, which typically retained the Sunday School as a part of their organization.

The first National Sunday School Convention was held in Philadelphia in 1832. The fifth convention was held in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1872. It was at the fifth convention that the International Uniform Lesson was adopted. Until 1872 there had been no common curriculum for the Sunday Schools throughout the country. Each denomination was preparing and providing its own lessons. Thus, a committee was formed that would arrange for common lessons to be shared by all. Variations on the common lessons developed, including the International Graded Series and Group Graded Lesson, designed to be age appropriate. Some denominations chose to develop its own curriculum based on its own needs.

Starting in 1872 National Sunday School Conventions have met every three years. After continual participation from a large number of foreign nations, the name was changed to the International Sunday School Convention.

The collection contains black and white photographs of various Sunday School activities, conventions, and classes, primarily in Washington State between 1914 and 1921. Images include group photographs at conferences and conventions for men, women and children; Sunday school sports teams, camping trips, and banquets.

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Images are predominantly group photographs of convention attendees probably at or near convention locations.

 Grays Harbor Boys Convention YMCA attendees November 7, 1914 PH0086 Box 1 2 3

J.C. Dean (photographer)

 Clark County Convention attendees in front of a church, Ridgefield, Washington 1914 PH0086 Box 1 2 4 Sunday School Convention attendees outside a church, Elma, Washington August 26, 1915 PH0086 Box 1 2 5

Davies Photo (photographer)

 Skagit County Sunday School Convention parade, Burlington, Washington 1916 PH0086 Box 1 2 6 Skagit County Sunday School Convention attendees on front steps of a church, Burlington, Washington 1916 PH0086 Box 1 2 7 Cowlitz County Sunday School Association attendees in front of a church, Castle Rock, Washington 1916 PH0086 Box 1 2 8

W.M. Teasley (photographer)

 Wahkiakum County Convention attendees in front of church circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 2 9 Island County Convention attendees in front of church circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 2 10 Lewis County Sunday School Convention attendees circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 2 11 Lewis County Sunday School Association officers circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 2 12 Probably Sunday school convention attendees in front of church circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 2 13 Sunday School Conferences

Images are predominantly group photographs of conference attendees, probably at or near convention locations.

 General Secretaries' Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana General Secretaries' Conference group circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 3 14 Older Girls Conferences Older Girls Conference, Anacortes, Washington January 1916 PH0086 Box 1 3 15 Older Girls Conference, Chehalis, Washington 1917 PH0086 Box 1 3 16

Kent's Studio, Chehalis, Washington (photographer)

 Western Washington Sunday School Association, Section 1 at Older Girls Conference, Camas, Washington March 11-13,1921 PH0086 Box 1 3 17 Western Washington Sunday School Association, Section 2 at Older Girls Conference, Anacortes, Washington April 1-3, 1921 PH0086 Box 1 3 18 Older Boys Conferences Older Boys Conference, Mount Vernon, Washington January 1916 PH0086 Box 1 3 19 Older Boys Conference, Centralia, Washington 1917 PH0086 Box 1 3 20 Older Boys Conference circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 3 21

La Roche Studio (photographer)

 Unidentified gathering possibly conference or convention Group of young men in suits circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 4 22 Large group under grand glass awning in large stone driveway circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 4 23 Sunday Schools Bible Classes Junior boys' class working over books with teacher circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 5 24-25 Girls' class working over books with teacher circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 5 26 Men's bible class, University Place Christian Church circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 5 27 Unity Bible Class, First M.P.S.S. circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 5 28

Donaldson Photo Art Co (photographer)

 Sunday school at Olga, Orcas Island, San Juan County, Washington circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 5 29

"One of our rural S.S. [Sunday Schools]"

 Intermediate Department, Manette Community Church circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 5 30 Junior Department, Manette Community Church circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 5 31 Primary Department, Manette Community Church circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 5 32 Teacher and twenty-two children lined up from youngest to oldest circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 5 33

"A Graded School - Each age from 1 to 21 represented."

 Possibly a bible class on grass in front of picket fence circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 5 34 Activities Camping or Retreats Seated men watching man with trombone circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 6 35 Men seated in woods circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 6 36 Men standing in rows, probably doing calisthenics circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 6 37 Group portrait of men and young boys circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 6 38 Four boys in campsite near water and tent circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 6 39 Twelve young boys circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 6 40 Five boys standing in front of a campsite circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 6 41 Seven boys standing on a large log circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 6 42 Banquets Methodist Church men's bible class banquet, Olympia, Washington circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 6 43

"Reverend Claus A. Bowen."

 Group posing at banquet circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 6 44

M.D. Boland, Tacoma (photographer)

 Sports Intermediate baseball team circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 7 45-46 Basketball team circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 7 47 SCAL basketball trophy teams circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 7 48 General Activities Junior choir at Plymouth Congressional Church December, 1913 PH0086 Box 1 7 49 Woman handing "The Mother's Magazine" to a woman with two children circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 7 50

"Home Department Visitor"

 Women with croquet mallets kneeling on tennis court circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 7 51 Boys in formal suits circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 7 52 Church Buildings Presbyterian church, Woodland, Washington circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 8 53 Church exterior with shed and pile of wood circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 8 54 Church exterior with side building addition circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 8 55 Church building interior classroom with posters, bulletin board and chair circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 8 56 Church building interior classroom with piano, stool, and benches circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 8 57 Bellingham Summer School of Methods Faculty Eight women and three men in front of woods circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 9 58 Five men circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 9 59 Portraits T.E. Billington, Northeast Field Secretary, American Christian Missionary Society circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 10 60 J. Stanley Long circa 1914-1921 PH0086 Box 1 10 61

James Bishoff (photographer)