[Man looking out at a field of wild Hyacinth flowers]
Photograph
[Man looking out at a field of wild Hyacinth flowers]
From the album [Snapshots from travels in the United States and Canada]
ca. 1930
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 2 5/8 × 4 5/16 in. (6.6 × 10.9 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0083b
Inscriptions Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: Dr. W.A.C. Hughes, called "Wack" by the Board members, - in charge of colored work for the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the M.E. Church, looking in the early morning at an immense expanse of wild Hyacinths in the South, (in Alabama I think). Taken by someone there about 1926. Dr. Hughes was colored but he, his wife and two handsome daughters were as refined people as I have ever seen. Dr. Hughes was so naturally refined, humble and always knew his place, yet business-like, that he was always welcome in all of the Board offices. He would not have been employed otherwise. Once at Springfield, Mass. at their 1926 General Conference held every four years, (and when we learned of the sudden death of Victor Herber) Mrs. Nelson, wife of A. Thomas Nelson of the Board Staff, went into a crowded auditorium where one of our programs was being given. Mrs. Hughes, seated in the rear, at once quietly got out of the back row to give Mrs. Nelson her seat. A. Thomas Nelson was the Board Photographer and consultant and took all of the moving pictures for the Board, as well. See print of the home of the college president of Drew Theological Seminary for further information on the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, Phila., Pa. Also other prints.
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