Students from Seventeenth Street Mission with Murray Grey, the Rev. John Little, Webster Rhoads, Owsley Sanders
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Students from Seventeenth Street Mission with Murray Grey, the Rev. John Little, Webster Rhoads, Owsley Sanders
Description
Students from Seventeenth Street Mission, Richmond, VA
Caption on front:
"Taken 4/11/15 X John Little from Louisville"
Card addressed to W. G. Somerville and postmarked April 16, 1915
Note on back identifies
1) Murray Grey - Superintendent (misspelled "Gray")
2) Webster Rhoads - Grace St. Church
3) Owsley Sanders - Grace St. Church
Note: the Rev. John Little directed especially successful settlement houses serving African Americans in Louisville, KY.
In 1911, students from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (Later, Union Presbyterian Seminary) started an urban ministry outreach program in the most impoverished neighborhood of Richmond, VA. The Seventeenth Street Mission functioned as a settlement house, offering laundry facilities and showers, meals, a clothing closet, classes in sewing, carpentry and other skills.
The Sunday School program focused on the memorization of Bible verses, catechisms and the Lord's Prayer. In 1914, students from the General Assembly's Training School (later, the Presbyterian School of Christian Education) joined in as teachers and volunteers, and the effort became largely staffed by women.
Caption on front:
"Taken 4/11/15 X John Little from Louisville"
Card addressed to W. G. Somerville and postmarked April 16, 1915
Note on back identifies
1) Murray Grey - Superintendent (misspelled "Gray")
2) Webster Rhoads - Grace St. Church
3) Owsley Sanders - Grace St. Church
Note: the Rev. John Little directed especially successful settlement houses serving African Americans in Louisville, KY.
In 1911, students from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia (Later, Union Presbyterian Seminary) started an urban ministry outreach program in the most impoverished neighborhood of Richmond, VA. The Seventeenth Street Mission functioned as a settlement house, offering laundry facilities and showers, meals, a clothing closet, classes in sewing, carpentry and other skills.
The Sunday School program focused on the memorization of Bible verses, catechisms and the Lord's Prayer. In 1914, students from the General Assembly's Training School (later, the Presbyterian School of Christian Education) joined in as teachers and volunteers, and the effort became largely staffed by women.
Source
Seventeenth Street Mission Collection, Special Collections, William Smith Morton Library, Union Presbyterian Seminary
Date
1915 April 11 (photograph)
1915 April 16 (postmark)
1915 April 16 (postmark)
Contributor
Union Presbyterian Seminary Library
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Notes
Learn more:
Little, John (1909) The Presbyterian Colored Missions. Louisville.
Gaines, Miriam (1933). The John Little Missions of Louisville, Kentucky. Southern Workman, LXII (April), 161-170.
Little, John (1909) The Presbyterian Colored Missions. Louisville.
Gaines, Miriam (1933). The John Little Missions of Louisville, Kentucky. Southern Workman, LXII (April), 161-170.
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“Students from Seventeenth Street Mission with Murray Grey, the Rev. John Little, Webster Rhoads, Owsley Sanders,” Social Welfare History Image Portal, accessed December 30, 2024, https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/207.