H2086 Where Sunday School was organized and preaching services were held in Bay Island district from which we were forced to withdraw because children carried mud on their shoes into the houses.
H2087 Where we are now forced to hold Sunday School and church services. Building in a corn field, half mile from road. Children and grown people compelled to creep though two barb wire fences to reach the dilapidated place of worship.
H2198 Soldiers monument in front of Unitarian Church.In memory of the soldiers of the Civil War. Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2199 Children entering Methodist Church, after the school period. They just sing a few sacred songs and the teacher says a prayer. Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2200 Children going to Methodist Church after school. They just sing a few sacred songs. The class teacher takes charge of them. She can be seen leading the line. The school just across the way from the church. Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2201 Group of girls in front of the school entrance. Some of these girls are Camp Fire Girls. Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2202 Group of girls in front of school entrance. Some of these girls are Camp Fire Girls. Rev. Moore's house adjoins the school house. Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2203 Boy scouts at practice for the Memorial Day Parade. The Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls are directed by Rev. Otis Moore. The boys have khaki suits on. Everyone of the scouts has a bicycle on which they take long trips with Rev.Moore as their guardian. Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2204 Boy scouts at practice for the Memorial Day Parade. The Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls are directed by Rev. Otis Moore. The boys have khaki suits on. Everyone of the scouts has a bicycle on which they take long trips with Rev.Moore as their guardian. Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2205 Children coming out of school. This school is next to Rev. Moore's house. Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2206 Hubbardston Massachusetts. Boys who paraded to boast the third Liberty Bond Loan. This was under Rev. Otis Moore's supervision. Hubbardston went far over its quota.
H2207 Flashlight of the Pageant in the Unitarian Church. This was the first church in Hubbardston Massachusetts. Rev. Moore supervised the Pageant. He can be seen with the farmer's hat and hoe in his hand.
H2208 Unitarian Church built in 1773 remodelled in 1842. In former years the Church was called the First Congregational Church of Hubbardston. This is the oldest Church in Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2209 Unitarian Church built in 1773 remodelled in 1842. In former years the Church was called the First Congregational Church of Hubbardston. This is the oldest Church in Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2212 Red Cross Building. Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2213 Residence showing large pile of wood. The people gather and cut great piles of wood to be prepared for the cold weather. Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2218 Landscape view taken from Lombard Road. There are at least seven abandoned houses within a radius of half mile of this section.
H2219 Millstream. The Mill on the stream has been torn down years ago, but the foundation was left and has rotted away with age. Hubbardston Massachusetts
H2248 Pioneers home. These shacks are very crude and old. When the settlers came here they had to cut down the trees and clear the land of all rocks (the soil out here is full of rocks and stones) so that they could do their farming. Phillipstone Massachusetts
H2249 Pioneers home. These shacks are very crude and old. When the settlers came here they had to cut down the trees and clear the land of all rocks (the soil out here is full of rocks and stones) so that they could do their farming. Phillipstone Massachusetts
H2252 View showing the drawbacks to farming. The soil is filled with rocks and stones and the ground is very hilly. Phillipstone Massachusetts
H2253 Peach Orchard (These trees are only about 2 years old) The men are picking the stones out of the soil. The soil is full of rocks and stones. Phillipstone Massachusetts
H1842 Cape May, NJ. Franklin Street Methodist Episcopal Church in which the Delaware (colored) Conference was held April 1918.
H1844 Bishop Mitchell and his cabinet. Franklin Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Delaware (Colored) Conference. April 1918. Cape May, New Jersey
H1951 Day nursery connected with Saint Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church. Chicago. Rev. J. W. Robinson, Pastor. This church without outside help supports a day nursery.
H1952 The store in which St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in Chicago. Pastor standing in front
H2101 Negro cabins in the Bayou Region, Louisiana.
H2103 Short term Negro convicts working the roads. Their food is corn
bread, bad molasses with a little salt pork twice a day, with beans at
noon. White prisoners serving less than a year are put on same program.
Tennessee.
H2332 Church awaiting Red Cross Drive. Brook Haven District, Mississippi.
Red Cross Committees made up of white merchants from adjoining villages
appeared at this Colored church and compelled them to accept the Red Cross
program and subscribe to Red Cross Fund under penalty of being branded as
slackers.
H2336 Church and Parsonage, Brook Haven District, Mississippi. It is an
example of what a pastor can accomplish when he gets hold of his community
by identifying himself with their home and farm problems.
H2345 Parsonage of a prosperous negro church, Brook Haven, Miss.
H2346 Parsonage of a preacher in the remote districts, Brook Haven, Miss.
In order to gain a living, this preacher has to run and till a 60 acre
farm, and the result is pastoral visits are few and far between. The
people complain they see little of their preacher in their homes. His
influence amounts to practically nothing in the community.
H2347 A school house in a remote district, Brook Haven, Miss.
H2348 A church in the back districts, Brook Haven, Miss.
H2349 Negro parsonage. This preacher and his family can not subsist on
the meagre salary paid by his congregation. He has to supplement his
income by farming. Brook Haven, Miss.
H2361 Tugboat on the Mississippi, New Orleans, La.
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H2363
H2364 Large Liveoak Tree. This liveoak in one of the New Orleans parks is
so large that it is assigned for a picnic party. A little further distant
is the famous "suicide oak" where the despondent and disappointed come to
end their lives. New Orleans, La.
H2377 County agent and club boy standing in the midst of the two acre
cornfield which has been planted and tilled by this boy. Brookhaven
District, Miss.
H2378 Ditch dug by boys under supervision of county agent draining a
swamp. This field which was useless on account of an overlfow during
freshets is redeemed and is growing its first crop. Brookhaven District,
Miss.
H2379 Ground broken for planting. Brookhaven District, Miss.
H2380 Baptist Church. The preacher travels a distance of 30 miles to
preach here every alternate Sunday. Brookhaven District, Miss.
H2385 Dilapidated Church. Students of Clark University are compelled to
worship here. Atlanta, Ga.
H2386 Grave and Tomb of Booker Washington at Tuskeegee, Alabama.
H2387 Old Union Barracks. These barracks were occupied by Union soldiers
at the close of the Civil War and were not vacated until the administration
of President Hayes. Atlanta, Ga.
H2388 Colored troops at Tuskeegee. The U.S. Government sends troops to
Tuskeegee to train them in the industrial arts needed in the army. They
come in battalions of 400 and are housed and trained in the regular
buildings of Tuskeegee Institute. Tuskeegee, Alabama.
H2397 Bridge where lynchings have recently occurred. A prominent Southern
newspaper recently stated that unless the Southern States put down lynching
that the Federal authorities will. Brookhaven District, Miss.
H2398 Bridge where lynchings have recently occurred. Brookhaven District,
Miss.
H2399 Bridge where lynchings have recently occurred. Brookhaven District,
Miss.
H2400 Busy day in the trucking regions. The shortage of cars compelled the
truckmen to wait from 7 in the morning until nightfall before unloading and
getting home. Brookhaven District, Miss.
H2401 Garden truck awaiting shipment. Crates of cabbages and hampers of
beans delayed by the shortage of cars. From one station 120 carloads of
strawberries were shipped to northern markets in a single day. Brookhaven
District, Miss.
H2403 Hauling heavy lumber to market. Brookhaven District, Miss.
H2402 Farm buildings of prosperous negro. In some sections the white
sentiment tolerates the erection of modern and adequate buildings on negro
farms. Brookhaven District, Miss.
H2404 Convict Labor. Note guard with whip. This is a form of slavery
that still exists in spite of the Emancipation Proclamation. Brookhaven
District, Miss.
H2405 Red Cross delegation visiting negro churches. Brookhaven District,
Miss.
H2406 Negro Funeral. The victim died of Pelegra. This disease results,
we are told, from malnutrition. Brookhaven District, Miss.
H2744 Rev. Oscar Huddleston, of the Phillippine Islands, at the Columbus
Centenary Meeting, June 1918 talking to Dr. A. Tindley of Calvary Church,
Phila. Columbus, Ohio.
H2745 Jos. C. Sherrill, colored representative of the Foreign Board.
W.A.C. Hughes, field secretary of the colored work, Home Board.
H2746 Dist. Supts. of the Mississippi Conference who are putting the rural
church program across - and by so doing, breaking the backbone of the
peonage on the Mississippi plantations.
H2747 Dr. P.J. Maveety of the Freedman's Aid Society, Dr. P.M. Waters,
Pres. of Gammon University and Dr. I.G. Penn.
H2748 Dr. P.J. Meveety of Freedman's Aid Society Dr. P.M. Waters, Pres. of
University, Dr. Penn at Columbus, Ohio 1918.
H2749 Some of the negro quarters in the South End with one of the great
factories in background. The houses are mostly from three to five rooms
and much crowded. Columbus, Ohio.
H2750 Typical negro backyard. Mammy was out hoeing the tiny garden, but
ran at the approach of the photographer. Columbus, Ohio.
H2751 Mr. Blanpied, at left. Rev. C.A. Tindley, D.D. Calvary Church,
Phila. - one of the largest enrolled churches of Methodism.
H2752 The negro section called the South End. The houses are rather
crowded and to escape the heat and the crowd the laborers from the glass
and other nearby factories often take their rest as seen in the picture.
Columbus, Ohio.
H2754 Typical street scene in the negro section of Columbus known as the
South End. Columbus, Ohio.
H2755 South End. Typical negro section. Columbus, Ohio.
H2758 Colored Baptist Mission Church seating 100 to 125 and located near
factories near South End. Two and a half miles away is a Methodist Episcopal Church for
colored folks. These are the only two churches for negroes in the district
where there are not less than 7,000 negroes, most of them recently from
Alabama or Georgia. Columbus, Ohio.
H2761 The colored Dist. Supt's. of Columbus. They formed an integral part
of the Centenary meeting. This picture was taken at dinner when everyone
felt especially happy. Columbus, Ohio.
H2762 Colored Dist. Supt's. at Columbus who formed an integral part of the
Centenary meeting. This picture was taken at dinner when everyone felt
especially happy. Columbus, Ohio.
H2766 Street scene on the South End where the negro exodus problem is
becoming a serious one. These houses, typical of this section of the city,
are filled to overcrowding with negroes and a few foreigners who are
employed in the glass factory in the distance. Columbus, Ohio, June 1918.
H3936 Two souls but with a single thought and that of a watermelon. The
melon was tied with a cord in such a way that both could carry it and they
were starting out for a picnic. It is said the Georgia negroes have the
science of eating melons worked to absolute perfection so they can feed a
stream of melon into one side of the mouth and exclude a stream of seeds
from the other side at the same time. Chattanooga, Tenn.
H4170 Colored children living in a very congested district. Note the
happy faces. Phila., Pa.
H4177 Pure negro blood members of East Calvary Colored Methodist Episcopal Church,
Phila., Pa.
H4178 This colored man earns $65 per week in a machine shop.
H4179 East Calvary Methodist Episcopal Colored Church. There was no more room in the
church, therefore the crowd stood outside during the morning service.
H4180 Blind man. East Calvary Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, Phila.
H10818 Colored college girls playing croquet. Marshall, Texas.
H10819 The old ex-slave who introduced himself by saying "Mahster, ahm
Henderson Harry, ah wuz a growed up young man when the Civil War come." He
doesn't know his age. Marshall, Texas.
H10820 Henderson Harry - an old ex-slave. Marshall, Texas.
H10821 President Dogan of Wiley College talking to Henderson Harry.
Marshall, Texas.
H11195 Panorama of college buildings showing President's house (right) 2
recitation halls, and site of main building, burnt Feb. 1918. Two other
buildings and dormitory are not shown.
H11277 Mt. Zion Methodist Episcopal (colored) Church. New Orleans, La. Rev. Reddix,
Pastor, has been in course of erection for several years. The congregation
is worshipping in the basement with a pile of used bricks in front of the
incomplete structure. They have not had sufficient funds to move forward
one bit in the last two years. The Centenary Program was put on. Units
organized Stewardship Program work. The result: A gracious revival and
Easter Sunday this church laid on the table $713, its first year's quota
for Centenary purposes.
H11278 First Methodist Episcopal Church (colored), New Orleans, La. The Centenary quota
for this church is $1,800 a yr. and Easter Sunday night these people laid
on the table in cash $3,600, two years quota.
H12069 The far building at the left side is the colored school, while
across the street from it, at the right, is a row of houses used as
gambling dens and houses of ill fame. Chester, Pa.
H12202 Colored kiddies in playground of Church of All Nations. Los
Angeles, California.
H12203 Colored kiddies in playground of Church of All Nations. Los
Angeles, California.
H12204 Colored kiddies in playground of Church of All Nations. Los
Angeles, California.
H12205 Little Mexican boy and colored girl on swing, Church of All
Nations. The boy could neither speak or understand English. Los Angeles,
California.
H13155 The large building is a reproduction of the church in which the
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute worshipped. The small building is
partly a reproduction of a hen house found on present site of Institute.
H13156 A view showing the Boys' Trade building, the Girls' Trade building,
the Agricultural Hall and etc. Tuskegee Institute.
H13157 Clarke Hall. The new Hampton Institue Y.M.C.A. building is a
30,000 two story brick structure that was built entirely by Hampton
students (except the slate roof). This is the best demonstration of
Hampton's practical trade training for negro and Indian boys. Virginia.
H13158 Roanoke Rapids School for colored, four class rooms, average daily
attendance 82. A.M. Procter, Supt.
H13546 One of the S.S. boys of Warren Ave. Methodist E. Church (colored).
Pittsburg, Pa.
H13547 Negro street meeting. The pastor at Warren Ave. Methodist Episcopal Church
(colored) says that most of these negro street preachers are frauds, using
this means to graft an easy living. Pittsburg, Pa.
H13548 Negro street meeting. The pastor at Warren Ave. Methodist Episcopal (colored)
says that most of these negro street preachers are frauds, using this means
to graft an easy living. Pittsburg, Pa.
H12549 Negro street meeting. The pastor at Warren Ave. Methodist Episcopal (colored)
says that most of these negro preachers are frauds, using this means to
graft an easy living. Pittsburg, Pa.