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[Baptistry Interpretation for Elkhart, Kansas Church]

Description: Handwritten essay by Perry entitled "Interpretation of Baptistry painting at Elkhart, Kansas." Essay describes scene along the Jordan River, Mt. Hernon, and Mt. Lebanon that inspired this painting. Elements and symbols mentioned include willow trees, eucalyptus, pines, cedar, sun beam cross, light, cloud shaped dove, water, rock, stone, sheep. Manuscript contains numerous edits.
Date: October 1952
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche

[Baptistry Painting for Fowler, Colorado]

Description: A black and white photograph of the painting created by Blanche Perry for a Church of Christ in Fowler, Colorado. Scene shows wide, calm water with trees and wooded banks and mountains in the background. Photograph is entitled "Sunrise over Jordan." Inscription on back reads in part, "The Sun of Righteousness over the Jordan Hills. Fall coloring."
Date: October 1953
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche

[Baptistry Painting for Fowler, Colorado #2]

Description: A black and white photograph of the painting created by Blanche Perry for a Church of Christ in Fowler, Colorado. Scene shows wide, calm water with trees and wooded banks and mountains in the background. Photograph is entitled "Sunrise over Jordan."
Date: October 1953
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche

[Baptistry Painting for Perrin, Texas]

Description: A black and white photograph of the baptistry painting done by Blanche Perry for the Church of Christ in Perrin, Texas. Painting no. 198 or no. 199. Scene depicts wide water with different types of trees, hills, clouds, shafts of light. Both photographs taken of painting outside against a brick wall. Inscription reads "Sunrise over Jordan" and on back "Jordan River ... The Sun of Righteousness Over the Jordan Hills."
Date: October 1953
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche

[Baptistry Painting for Perrin, Texas #2]

Description: Photograph of the baptistry painting done by Blanche Perry for the Church of Christ in Perrin, Texas. Painting no. 198 or no. 199. Scene depicts wide water with different types of trees, hills, clouds, shafts of light. Both photographs taken of painting outside against a brick wall. Inscription reads "Sunrise over Jordan" and on back "Jordan River ... The Sun of Righteousness Over the Jordan Hills."
Date: October 1953
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche

[Baptistry Painting for Stuttgart, Arkansas]

Description: Photograph of the baptistry painting done for a Church of Christ in Stuttgart, Arkansas. Shows river flowing over rocks with trees, clouds, sun, and sun beam cross.
Date: October 1949
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche

[Baptistry Painting for Ulysses, Kansas]

Description: Photograph of the baptistry painting done by Blanche Perry for the Church of Christ in Ulysses, Kansas. Photograph shows painting installed in the church building. Inscription on back reads, "Oct. 7 to 10 -- eleventh opening day of new building. Stayed at Bro. and Sis. Earl Williams. Theme of painting The Mountain of God or The Church of the Living God. Bro. Pickartz minister."
Date: October 1953
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche

[Baptistry Painting for Ulysses, Kansas #2]

Description: A black and white photograph of the baptistry painting done by Blanche Perry for the Church of Christ in Ulysses, Kansas. Photograph shows painting installed in the church building.
Date: October 1953
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche

[Baptistry Painting in Elkhart, Kansas]

Description: A black and white photograph of the baptistry painting created by Blanche Perry for the Church of Christ in Elkhart, Kansas installed in the church building with curtains, the pulpit, and the communion table.
Date: October 1952
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche

[Baptistry Painting in Elkhart, Kansas #2]

Description: A black and white photograph of the baptistry painting done by Blanche Perry for the Church of Christ at Elkhart, Kansas. Painting depicts wide body of water, trees, mountains, clouds.
Date: October 1952
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche

[Color Painting of Capital Heights Church Mural]

Description: A color painting in miniature of the baptistry painting for the Capital Heights Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Signed and dated by Blanche Perry. Shows sun beam cross, dove shaped cloud, calm river, and tree lined banks.
Date: October 1941
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche

[Letter from from Clyde E. Fulmer to Blanche Perry]

Description: A handwritten letter from from Clyde E. Fulmer, minister at Capital Heights Church, describing the painting and its display. Mentions that painting was slightly too short in width.
Date: October 31, 1941
Creator: Fulmer, Clyde E.

[Letter from from Clyde E. Fulmer to Blanche Perry #3]

Description: A letter from Clyde E. Fulmer, minister at Capital Heights Church, to Blanche Perry informing her of the arrival of the painting she made for the church, and their plans to hang it within the week.
Date: October 26, 1941
Creator: Fulmer, Clyde E.

[Letter from Mrs. Jordan Hall to Blanche Perry]

Description: Letter from Mrs. Jordan Hall and signed by others in her Sunday School Class to Perry thanking her for the baptistry painting for the church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Date: October 8, 1944
Creator: Hall, Jordan

[Letter from Robert S. Sprague to Blanche Perry]

Description: Letter plus envelope from Robert S. Sprague to Perry requesting a baptistry painting for the church in Lawton, Oklahoma. Mentions cost of Lawton church building.
Date: October 3, 1939
Creator: Sprague, Robert S.

[Letter from Russell Lockhart to Blanche Perry]

Description: Letter plus envelope from Russell Lockhart of the Church of Christ in South Parkersburg, West Virginia to Perry requesting a bapistry painting. Request for a painting was inspired by the painting Perry did for the church in Athens, Ohio. Mentions average size and attendance of the South Side congregation and various people and ministries in which the church is involved. Letter is typewritten on church letterhead.
Date: October 12, 1951
Creator: Lockhart, J. Russell

[Letter from S. L. Edwards to Blanche Perry]

Description: Typewritten and signed letter by S.L. Edwards of the Church of Christ in Hoffman Heights, Aurora, Colorado, thanking Perry for the baptistry painting. Letter includes envelope and is dated October 2, 1957.
Date: October 2, 1957
Creator: Edwards, S.L.

[Letter to Blanche Perry from Nashville, Tennessee]

Description: Incomplete letter from an unknown person to Perry thanking her for the baptistry painting done for the church in Nashville, Tennessee. Mentions several comments from other church members regarding how the painting affected them. Includes personal details of author.
Date: October 18, 1944

Oral History Interview with Floyd Rose, October 26, 1998

Description: Interview with Floyd Rose, a preacher and civil rights leader from Valdosta, Georgia. The interview includes Rose's personal experiences as a preacher outside of the church, former president of the NAACP, and civil rights leader. The interview also includes Rose discussing his views on discrimination, police brutality, and the internal politics of the church. He also discusses his relationship to his immediate family and the deaths of his wife and father.
Date: October 26, 1998
Creator: Boyd, R. Vernon & Rose, Floyd

Oral History Interview with Mrs. D. J. Bynam, October 29, 1973

Description: Interview with Mrs. D. J. Bynam, widow to a former preacher of the Church of Christ from Lyles, Mississippi. The interview includes Bynam's experience growing up in and around the church, discussion about her family, prominent figures in the church, and the opinions around race during that time.
Date: October 29, 1973
Creator: Boyd, R. Vernon & Bynam, Mrs. D. J.

[Presentation and Interpretation of Baptistry Painting #1]

Description: A copy of a typewritten essay by Blanche Perry to the Colorado Springs Church of Christ entitled "Presentation and Interpretation of Baptistry Painting." Symbols noted include cross, blood, dove, Spirit, water, mountains, valley.
Date: October 1938
Creator: Perry, Myrta Blanche
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