 Figure 1.--This portrait shows a group of children in robes, kneeling with hands folded in prayer, and eyes closed, gathered around a woman. It is almost certainly the woman's Sunday school class. Her eyes are open, and one child's eyes are open as he looks toward camera. The photographer was G.M. Nixon, Bellevue, Ohio. The image is undated, but the woman's dress suggests the 1890s to us. |
One popular activity for Sunday School was to stage skits and pagents. The children might be dressed up as angels or Biblical characters to act out events in the Bible. The most common of course was the Christmas pagent and the birth of baby Jesus in the manger at Bethleham. There were many other Biblical skits and pagents. Some Sunday school classes would be dressed up and photographed like regulat school classes. Normally they would wear their best Sunday going to meeting clothes. We note some Sinday schools that dressed the children up in robes for a tableau-like portrait.
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