[View of a Methodist school's campus]
Photograph
[View of a Methodist school's campus]
From the album [Snapshots from travels in the United States and Canada]
1921 - 1926
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 3 7/16 × 4 5/16 in. (8.8 × 11 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0092c
Inscriptions Written in ink on recto, BC: (Tenn) Pittman Center (Methodist school)
Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: Methodist school at Pittman Center, Tenn. Taken by A. Thomas Nelson, 1921 to 1926. Dr. Burdette, a native, was at the head of the school at the time. His family, wife & two ? daughters lived by preference in Nashville, Tenn. The largest building in the distance was the first and main building which housed the school. One of the two buildings this side, house or cottage, was the ladies dormitory. The school was then difficult of access, having to ford all streams. Mr. Nelson always intended taking Mrs. Nelson there for a vacation but that was never realized. Mr. Nelson took movies on his last trip there, near 1925, to be shown at the General Conference (held every four years) held in the summer of 1926 at Springfield, Mass. Mrs. Clarice Vallette McCauley of 403 W. 115th St. N.Y.C. wrote the script & program for the evening given to the Board. It was one of the finest programs, if not the finest. All signals were given by a beautiful soft gong. Mr. Nelson operated the stills and movies shown by those signals. The Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the M.E. Church had it's headquarters on the first six floors of the Wesley Bldg., (theirs) at 17th & Arch Sts., Phila., Pa., with entrance on the 17th Sts., side and the balance above which was built for them was occupied by the Robert Morris Hotel, (formerly the Little Wilmont on South Penn Square,) - with it's entrance on Arch Street. The Belle Tel. Co. wanted the upper floors built for them.
Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: Methodist school at Pittman Center, Tenn. Taken by A. Thomas Nelson, 1921 to 1926. Dr. Burdette, a native, was at the head of the school at the time. His family, wife & two ? daughters lived by preference in Nashville, Tenn. The largest building in the distance was the first and main building which housed the school. One of the two buildings this side, house or cottage, was the ladies dormitory. The school was then difficult of access, having to ford all streams. Mr. Nelson always intended taking Mrs. Nelson there for a vacation but that was never realized. Mr. Nelson took movies on his last trip there, near 1925, to be shown at the General Conference (held every four years) held in the summer of 1926 at Springfield, Mass. Mrs. Clarice Vallette McCauley of 403 W. 115th St. N.Y.C. wrote the script & program for the evening given to the Board. It was one of the finest programs, if not the finest. All signals were given by a beautiful soft gong. Mr. Nelson operated the stills and movies shown by those signals. The Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the M.E. Church had it's headquarters on the first six floors of the Wesley Bldg., (theirs) at 17th & Arch Sts., Phila., Pa., with entrance on the 17th Sts., side and the balance above which was built for them was occupied by the Robert Morris Hotel, (formerly the Little Wilmont on South Penn Square,) - with it's entrance on Arch Street. The Belle Tel. Co. wanted the upper floors built for them.
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