Mormon missionaries look like Mormon missionaries, no matter the place, no matter the year, don’t they? Here’s an album of elders and sisters, proclaiming the gospel in 1912:

Ironton, Missouri

(R.S. Dalley, Driggs, Idaho; Homer Taylor, Marysvale, Utah — my grandfather; James B. Thomas, Logan, Utah; W. Charles Garner, Roy, Utah)

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Greeley, Colorado

(back: J.N. Carroll, Midway, Utah; Sister and President John L. Herrick, Denver, Colorado; J.C. Campbell, Rigby, Idaho;  middle: H.L. McDermott, Clifton, Utah; Cora Hansen, Rexburg, Idaho; J.N. Dayley, Burley, Idaho; Ethel M. Call, Rigby, Idaho, E.J. Wilson, Jr., Hyrum, Utah; front: William Hurd, Snowville, Utah; Joseph Jensen, Independence, Missouri; C.R. Hart, Raymond, Idaho; J.A. Eyre, Minersville, Utah)

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Billings, Montana

(left to right: Byron Beck, Sanford, Colorado; L.A. Haws, Vernal, Utah; Leo Cornish, Cove, Utah; W.M. Adamson, Tooele, Utah)

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Rhode Island

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Sunderland, England

(standing: Joseph Parmley, Winter Quarters, Utah; J. Eugene Lichfield, Provo, Utah; sitting: Nathaniel Ludlow, Spanish Fork, Utah; Victor E. Gilbert, Winter Quarters, Utah)

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Toluca, Mexico

(back: Joseph V. Elton, Garcia, Mexico; Joseph E. Huish, Morelos, Mexico; James Whipple, Dublam, Mexico; local priest Elisee Jiminez, San Pablo; front: Edmund W. Richardson, Diaz, Mexico; Broughton Lunt, Pacheco, Mexico)

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Copenhagen, Denmark

(back: James A. Christensen, Carl E. Neilsen; sitting: Henry Christiansen, Aaron P. Christiansen, William Henry Petersen, Andrew C. Anderson)

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Charleston, West Virginia

(back: William A. Casper, Menan, Idaho; Alfred A. Bybee, Lyman, Colorado; Eddie R. Johnston, Paris, Idaho; George William Bowers, Dempsey, Idaho; Rea Gardner, Spanish Fork, Utah; Ray R. Chugg, Ogden, Utah; Mark Cook, Vernal, Utah; middle: Leonard R. Bailey, Calders Station, Utah; Jeremiah Baker, Mendon, Utah; George H. Ransom, Lewiston, Utah; David Cheney, Sunnydyl, Idaho; Charles S. Crow, Salt Lake City; front: France F. Wetzell, Salt Lake City, Utah; Frank L. Winter, Rexburg, Idaho)

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Spokane, Washington

(back: Fred G. Carlile, Heber City, Utah; George C. Wood, Woods Cross, Utah; Nephi P. Nielsen, College Ward, Utah; middle: P.M.V. Anderson, Ephraim, Utah; L.E. Talbot, Kimball, Canada; Katherine L. Woodbury, Salt Lake City; Horten E. Fackrell, Bountiful, Utah; Victoria Egbert, Layton, Utah; Melvin K. Walker, Oakley, Idaho; front: Victor L. Hansen, Elwood, Utah; F.F. Brown, Blackfoot, Idaho; R.H. Hale, Oakley, Idaho; Mission President Melvin J. Ballard; M.J. Stringham, Vermillion, Utah)

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Queensland, Australia

(standing: Fred S. Alvard, Daniel H. Heaton, Paxman Hatch; sitting: Grant D. Staples, Charles H. Hyde, J. Arthur Orme; front: David Nash and John Smith)

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Lynchburg, Virginia

(front: Ernest Turley, Juarez, Mexico; H.B. Aycock, Pikeville, North Carolina; back: Marion Whittle, Marysville, Idaho; Joseph W. Hess, Plymouth, Utah)

Holbaek, Denmark

(Elders Lars Jensen, Mapleton, Utah, and N.L. Hansen, Brigham City, Utah, with English class)

Chicago, Illinois

(standing: J.H. Buckmiller, A.N. Smith, A.H. Wells, C. Stephens, John Schenk; sitting: G.F. Wendell, Viola V. Howard, Rebecca P. Atkin, Leona Ossman, N.B. Chugg)

Norfolk, Nebraska

(George W. Rhodes, Salt Lake City, Utah; M.w. Hansen, Mink Creek, Idaho; C.N. Liljenquist, Salt Lake City, Utah; William A. McFarland, West Weber, Utah)

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Adelaide, Australia

(standing: Alfred Brooksby, Fredonia, Arizona; Matthew Holt, South Jordan, Utah; John Fullmer, Abraham, Utah; William B. Moore, Ogden, Utah; Preston D. West, Morgan, Utah; sitting: Wesley E. Tingey, Centerville, Utah; James F. Palmer, South Jordan, Utah; C. Leroy Haskell, Payson, Utah)

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Bergen, Norway

(in front of new mission home)

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Holdenville, Oklahoma

(back: Wallace Hurd, Cardston, Alberta; Vaughan Taylor, Fairview, Whoming; front: Charles H. Gates, Escalante, Utah; Archie E. Bee, Bloomington, Idaho)

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Louisiana

(standing: C.C. Pendleton, Cedar City, Utah; T. Norton Brunker, Willard,Uutah; Price Brinkerhoff, Woodruff, Arizona; William H. Facer, Malad, Idaho; Joseph W. Alston, Magrath, Alberta; Austin Sessions and John T. Grant, Chesterfield, Idaho; Frank Hartle, Vernal, Utah; sitting: Alexander Brown, Lehi, Utah; M.W. Lewis, Kamas, Utah; Bennett Lindsay, Heber City, Utah; J.H. Hutchison, Marysvale, Idaho; Thomas L. Butterfield, Riverton, Utah; Ray Parkinson, McCammon, Idaho; Eugene Morris, Beaver, Utah; William W. Farley, Peterson, Utah)

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Rotterdam, Holland

(standing: Oscar T. Parker, Joseph Reed, Joseph B.  Knight, David E. Ostler; sitting: L. Hamilton Taylor, O. Earl Thomas; Roscoe W. Eardley, Bererena Tiemersma, Ray Van Wagoner)

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Trondjem, Norway

(standing: Martin Christopherson; sitting: John H. Evenson; Leroy L. Larsen — all from Farmers Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah)

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Sapporo, Japan

(standing: Thomas L. Chipman, American Fork, Utah; William S. Ellis, Pleasant View, Utah; sitting: E. Leroy Anderson, Salem, Idaho; A.B. Hintze, Holliday, Utah)

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Haugesund, Norway

(J.E. Larsen, Taber, Canada; Lawrence C. Monson, Salt Lake City, Utah)

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Independence, Missouri

(top: L. Swainston and V.F. Spencer, both Burley, Idaho; J.O. Sorensen, Georgetown, Idaho; Henry iller, Thayne, Wyoming; R.P. Murray, Wellsville, Utah; middle: Nettie Mecham, Morgan, Utah; W.S. MacKay, Taylorsville, Utah; Cora Hawley, Seattle, Washington; John F. Allred, Ogden, Utah; front: J.W. Smith, Grantsville, Utah; Elmer Jackson, Randolph, Utah; Jesse Walton, Miller, Utah)

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Montgomery, Alabama

(Edgar E. Burke, Springerville, Arizona; Frederick L. Bangerter, Granger, Utah; Guy V. Lamoreaux, Hubbard, Arizona; Leonard Hatch, Hatch, Idaho)

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