Featured Collection: Historic Mission and Missionary Photograph Collections
Find links to photograph collections from a variety of historic Church missions.
The Church History Library contains numerous photograph collections from historic Church missions, including many of the original missions established during the early Church whose names and boundaries have since been changed. Of these collections, some may only contain one photograph while others will contain many.
To search for missions’ photographs on your own, enter the name of the mission in the search bar and click Search. Then select the “Photographs” filter on the left side of the search results page. You can further narrow your search by selecting the “Digital” filter, which will only display those collections that are scanned and available for online viewing.
Africa
Photographs of Elder Crook as well as other missionaries and members in Cape Town in the South African Mission.
Photographs of Elder Gottlieb Blatter and other missionaries who served in the South African Mission.
Asia
Photographs of Heber J. Grant and others during service in the Japan Mission; includes photographs of missionaries, members, and those living in Japan.
Photographs of missionaries and members in the Korean District of the Northern Far East Mission.
Europe
Includes photographs of Brigham Young Jr., Moses Thatcher, N. H. Felt, W. P. Nebeker, G. R. Sangiovanni, and W. W. Riter of the Swiss, Italian, and German Mission.
Photographs of missionaries serving in the West German Mission.
Photograph of missionaries who transferred from the French Mission to the British Mission due to World War I.
Photograph of missionaries who served in the Turkish Mission, including Andrew Larson, Philip Maycock, Nishan Sheranian, Anthon H. Lund, and Ferdinand F. Hintz.
Photographs of missionaries in the Scandinavian Mission, including Rasmus Borquist, who served in Malmo, Sweden.
Photographs of missionaries serving in the Netherlands Mission, including Charles W. Penrose and Sylvester Q. Cannon.
Photograph of missionaries serving in the German Mission.
Photographs of missionaries and members in the German Mission and the Swiss and German Mission.
Photographs of missionaries serving in the Scandinavian Mission.
Photographs of missionaries serving in the British Mission.
Photographs of Wallace F. Toronto and others while he served in the German-Austrian Mission and, later, as president of the Czechoslovak Mission.
Photograph of John Lyman Smith, president of the Swiss and Italian Mission and, later, the Swiss, Italian and German Mission. Also in the photograph is Serge Louis Ballif, president of the Swiss and German Mission.
North America
Photograph of missionaries serving in the Northern States Mission.
Photographs of missionaries serving in the California Mission.
Photographs of missionaries serving in the Indian Territory Mission.
Includes portraits of missionaries, the Juarez Stake Academy girls’ basketball team, and the Chuichupa Primary.
Photographs of missionaries serving in the Southern Mission; includes photographs of J. Golden Kimball, John Henry Smith, Elias S. Kimball, and Ben E. Rich.
Photographs of missionaries who served in Kelsey, Texas, Central States Mission, including mission president Samuel O. Bennion.
Eastern States Mission, 1922–1925, PH 861
Photographs of missionaries who served in the Eastern States mission; includes photographs of Heber J. Grant and other Church leaders.
Photograph of missionaries of the Central States Mission at the dedication of a chapel in Independence, Missouri, including Spencer W. Kimball, Samuel O. Bennion, and Charles W. Nibley.
Includes photographs of missionaries in the Eastern States Mission.
Photographs of missionaries serving in the Northern States Mission, including a group of sister missionaries.
Photograph of missionaries serving in the Colorado Mission.
Photograph of missionaries serving in the Eastern States Mission.
Photographs of missionaries serving in the Southwestern States Mission, later named the Central States Mission.
Photographs of missionaries serving in the Indian Territory Mission.
Photographs of missionaries serving in the Indian Territory Mission.
Oceania
Photographs of missionaries, members, and indigenous peoples in the Tahitian Mission.
Photograph of missionaries serving in the Samoan Mission. Names of missionaries are written on the bottom of the photograph.
Photographs of missionaries serving in the Tongan Mission.
Photograph of missionaries and members in the Samoan Mission.
Photographs of missionaries who served in New Zealand in the Australasian Mission; includes portraits of members and Maori peoples.
Individual and group photographs of missionaries serving in the New Zealand Mission.
South America
Photographs of missionaries serving as construction missionaries in Brazil.
Includes photographs of missionaries in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Brazil.