This image appeared in American newspapers around the country in late 1919-early 1920 — this particular cut is taken from a newspaper in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
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I think “monolithic” is the best adjective for those amazing early 20th-century temples.
So was this publicity paid for by the church, or was a Mormon temple of enough interest that papers ran this?
Seth, while I don’t see any visible sign that this was distributed by a wire service, I think it must have been. I’ve seen it a couple of dozen times, always with the same caption.
And I don’t know how interested, really, the world was. But newspapers were always looking for filler, so when something like this showed up, it must have been at least different enough to be worth sticking in that odd corner on page 4.
As for the Church paying for it as publicity, I’m pretty certain they did not. These are the same years that the Church distributed short sermons written by James E. Talmage, and the Church didn’t pay for those.