Standing in the creek, a man wearing a white shirt holds the hand of a woman wearing a print dress. Another woman with a bun in her hair touches the baptized woman's face, and another man wearing overalls holds onto the woman's arm. A group of boys...
Standing in the creek, a man wearing a white shirt holds one hand over the head of a woman as if to bless her. She clutches his other arm with both hands. A man wearing overalls stands, head bowed, holding onto the woman being baptized with one...
Standing in the creek, a man wearing a white shirt holds a woman wearing a print dress by the arm. She looks as though her head has just been dunked in the water. Another man holds onto the woman's arm, and another woman with a bun in her hair...
Standing in the creek, a man wearing a white shirt holds onto a man wearing overalls, who looks as though he has just been dunked in the water. A group of boys watches the baptism from the bank.
Three women wearing print dresses and two men stand on the bank. At least two of them have just been baptized in the creek: the woman with wet hair holding a pair of white shoes, and the man in overalls with wet hair (another woman holds his hat)....
Two women and three man stand on the bank. Both women and the man wearing overalls are wet, having just been baptized in the creek. One woman holds a pair of white shoes in one hand. Title supplied by cataloger.
Oneida Baptist Institute commencement procession in 1916. The procession moved from the chapel in Marvin Hall, around the school's tennis and basketball courts and the Big Store to reach the banks of the South Fork. There they witnessed the baptism...
Rites & ceremonies; Baptisms; Men; Oneida Baptist Institute
Professor Burns baptizes Charlie Roberts on the South Fork of the Kentucky River below Bullskin Creek on Oneida Baptist Institute's Commencement Day in 1916. The blacksmith shop, on the left, sits high over the bank so mules can walk under it. The...
Professor Burns is baptizing Charlie Roberts on the South Fork of the Kentucky River below Bullskin Creek on Oneida Baptist Institute's Commencement Day in 1916. The blacksmith shop, on the left, sits high over the bank so mules can walk under it....
