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First Church of Christ Scientist, Sunday school room, Boston, Mass – Historic Print

First Church of Christ Scientist, Sunday school room, Boston, Mass, c1923. — historic photograph
First Church of Christ Scientist, Sunday school room, Boston, Mass, c1923.. Historic photograph from the Boston collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: First Church of Christ Scientist, Sunday school room, Boston, Mass, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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First Church of Christ Scientist, Sunday school room, Boston, Mass

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Few views of Boston's religious life show a children's classroom as plainly as this Sunday school room at the First Church of Christ, Scientist. The church was the mother church of the Christian Science movement founded by Mary Baker Eddy, and by the 1920s its Boston congregation was a large and influential one, with members who sent their children to weekly classes in rooms like this. Photographs of church interiors from this period often served congregations and publications that wanted to show their facilities, so the picture doubles as a record of how a well-equipped space for religious instruction looked in the early 1920s.

Created / publishedc1923.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
Notes261944 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Terry(?) & Knell.
SubjectsChristian Science churches--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Sunday schools--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Interiors--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,277 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-179553

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