Figure 1.--Here we see a group in front of a Methodist Church in Cassville, Georgia after a church service about 1910. |
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America by the turn-of-the 20th century was a much more religiously diverse country as the result of extensive 19th century immigration. The immigrant flow contibued wuth few restrictions untill World War I (1914-18). Americans dressed up to go to church. The term in the early 20th century was Sunday go to meeting clothes--a Protestan term. Thus photographs of church goers over time provide a goos idea as to how people dressed up at time. Here it is helpful to know when the photograph was taken, where it was taken, and the religious denomination. All these factors affected the clothing that the children wore to church. The season of course was also a factor. The religious denomination to some extent had social class connotations. Anglicans (Espiscopalians) had the most upper-class members. Fundamentalist Protestanct scets were often low-income people. The intoduction of the Kodak Brownie (1900) and similar cameras meant that we have a wealth of images from the 20th century.
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