Information Sheet

 

 

R         Vichy (Mo.).

1192                Lantern slide, ca. 1927.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is a colored glass-plate lantern slide and accompanying descriptive sheet of “Sunday School Pioneers” at Vichy in Maries County, Missouri.  Believed to have been produced in 1927, the slide has been attributed to the Presbyterian National Missions Board.  It shows a group of youngsters at Vacation Bible School.

 

This slide was apparently part of a set used to promote home missions conducted by the Presbyterian Church.  The slide itself is labeled only with the numbers 26N, 45, and “Neg. No. 3209.”  The accompanying “script” includes those designations plus the title “Sunday School Pio­neers” and the subtitle, “D.V.B.S., Vichy, Maries County, Missouri.”  According to the script, “One of the most needy missionary areas in our country is found in the Ozark mountains,” where “we are conducting thirty-seven mission Sunday schools, with 117 officers and an enrollment of 1,500 children.”  D.V.B.S. stands for Daily Vacation Bible School.  There are 27 children in the photograph.  They are posed outside a building.

 

 

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