SARAH MARCIA LOOMIS Photographs 1920-1931

Pine Mountain Settlement School
SERIES 09: BIOGRAPHY
Sarah Marcia Loomis
Sarah “Sally” Marcia Loomis Photographs
(from 58 negatives)
1920-1931
Teacher at Little Laurel

Zande House from Far House. [Photo by Sally Loomis, 1930.] [nace_1_054b.jpg]

TAGS: Sarah Marcia Loomis, “Sally” Loomis, photography, teacher, Little Laurel School, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Alice Cobb, photography list, Pine Mountain photographs, Chapel, Big Log, Pole House, Maxine Frazier, dogwood, Eunice Cornett, daffodils, Laurel House, Zande House, Henry Creech, Columbus Creech, Dr. Stapleton, Line Fork, Miss Wallace,

SARAH “SALLY’ MARCIA LOOMIS Photographs

The photographs described in the following letter from Sarah Marcia Loomis are spread throughout the collection. The negatives as described by Sarah Loomis in this correspondence do not reproduce well and are stored in the archive.  NOT all photographs have been accounted for and not all negatives have a corresponding number on the film.

THE LOOMIS LETTER


loomis_sallie_letter_001.jpg Loomis list of negatives

915 Beardsley Avenue
Elkhart, Indiana
July 7, 1946

Dear Alice Cobb.

“Here are the negatives of the pictures I took at Pine Mountain 1920-1931. They are, or were, good. Some have been used for publicity. If you don’t want them throw them away. (I’m doing some housecleaning.)”

As numbered lower left corner they are:

  1. Kids on rock at Little Laurel School
  2. Pause at Stapleton’s Line Fork, in a hike
  3. Reservoir
  4. Pigs in road [004a]
  5. Kids on rock
  6. Maxine Frazer [sic ?] and daffodils
  7. Dogwood (I think)
  8. Boys washing in creek near Laurel House
  9. Zande House from Far House sleeping porch
  10. Valley View below Pole House with boy and bag of potatoes
  11. Pigs
  12. Little Laurel School and teeter-tauter
  13. Sarvis berry and mts.
  14. Dancing on playground
  15. View from Pole House
  16. Daffodils
  17. Girls
  18. Eunice Cornett in a tree
  19. “I’d rather plow as to eat”
  20. Chapel
  21. Same [Chapel]
  22. Old Log
  23. Columbus and Henry Creech dressed up. Showing how to set a [dead-fall] trap
  24. Road to Little Laurel
  25. Little Laurel School
  26. Granny Creech and grands
  27. Ella Jane, Big Laurel
  28. View from Pole House
  29. Snow
  30. Logging train
  31. Chapel and dogwood
  32. Aunt Sal’s House
  33. Harris girls, Big Laurel
  34. Limestone Branch {?}
  35. Neighbor children
  36. Nealy’s house, Linefork
  37. Chapel interior
  38. Cracking walnuts below Far House
  39. View of School from top of Pine Mountain
  40. Little Laurel, kids on rock at schoolhouse
  41. Limestone Branch in winter
  42. Daffodils
  43. Boys House (boys look very self-conscious and proud)
  44. View through Chapel Bell down valley
  45. The Fair
  46. Mt. and school
  47. Milking
  48. Dancing, Big Log
  49. Chapel, girls, Miss Wallace
  50. Honor student’s picnic (Oscar Pease, August Shoemaker, Eunice Cornett, etc.
  51. Diesel Plant and child
  52. Big Laurel Settlement
  53. Same [Big Laurel Settlement] with wood chopper
  54. Pole House
  55. Pole House
  56. Cattle through a barn
  57. Chapel interior
  58. Polly Wilder

How are you? I hope we meet again.
As my housecleaning progresses, I may send you more that you may not want either!

Love to P.M.,
Sally Loomis

GALLERY:  SARAH “SALLY” LOOMIS NEGATIVES

(Some negatives are missing or misfiled and are not shown in the gallery . Located files vary in quality and are assumed to be the work of Loomis. Some of the following photographs duplicate prints integrated into other collections earlier and were not identified as the work of Loomis.

SEE

SARAH MARCIA LOOMIS Staff
SARAH MARCIA LOOMIS Correspondence
SARAH MARCIA LOOMIS Photographs