Bethel Baptist Church Ground Breaking Service | Collections | The Huntington

Bethel Baptist Church Ground Breaking Service | Collections | The Huntington

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Photographs of African American religious and masonic life in Pasadena, California
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The collection spans approximately 1954 through 1970 and includes one program from the September 8, 1963 Bethel Baptist Church Ground Breaking Service and 18 black-and-white photographs (8 x 10 inches) of Bethel, Freemason, and Order of the Eastern Star members and events. This includes images of the Bethel members and presumably Reverend Freeman S. Stevens attending the church's Ground Breaking Service, images of the Bethel building located at 1972 North Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena, California, and the 1970 National Baptist Convention in Shreveport, Louisiana. Other photographs depict members of Bethel's 9:00 O' Clock Men's Club, a large gathering of several Masonic organizations outside of a Masonic Grand Lodge in California, the men and women of the Silver Leaf Chapter No. 7 Order of the Eastern Star, two portraits of Chapter No. 7 treasurer Louise T. Butler at the King Solomon Lodge No. 10, and one photograph of the July 15, 1964 Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star Grand Session at the El Cortez Hotel Banquet Room in San Diego, California. Also within the collection is one black and white image of a well-dressed African American man posing on a rooftop patio, the verso reads "Mr. Kincaid". The majority of images include descriptive information on the verso.
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Photographs
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The collection spans approximately 1954 through 1970 and includes one program from the September 8, 1963 Bethel Baptist Church Ground Breaking Service and 18 black-and-white photographs (8 x 10 inches) of Bethel, Freemason, and Order of the Eastern Star members and events. This includes images of the Bethel members and presumably Reverend Freeman S. Stevens attending the church's Ground Breaking Service, images of the Bethel building located at 1972 North Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena, California, and the 1970 National Baptist Convention in Shreveport, Louisiana. Other photographs depict members of Bethel's 9:00 O' Clock Men's Club, a large gathering of several Masonic organizations outside of a Masonic Grand Lodge in California, the men and women of the Silver Leaf Chapter No. 7 Order of the Eastern Star, two portraits of Chapter No. 7 treasurer Louise T. Butler at the King Solomon Lodge No. 10, and one photograph of the July 15, 1964 Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star Grand Session at the El Cortez Hotel Banquet Room in San Diego, California. Also within the collection is one black and white image of a well-dressed African American man posing on a rooftop patio, the verso reads "Mr. Kincaid". The majority of images include descriptive information on the verso.
photCL 696
Eastern Star Home, 11725 Sunset, Brentwood, Los Angeles. March 30, 1932
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A panoramic street view of the Eastern Star Home, located at 11725 Sunset, Brentwood, Los Angeles. This Spanish colonial revival building was designed by William R. Mooser and finished in 1931, when it was used as a retirement home for people connected to the Order of the Eastern Star. There is a flagpole on the far left flying flags of the United States and the Order of the Eastern Star.
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First Baptist Church. Banning, Calif
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Photo of the First Baptist Church.
photCL 39 (282)
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Brock Collection: Clergymen's collection : Methodist Church and Baptist Church
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Collection of miscellaneous personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, and documents of Methodist and Baptist ministers and congregations, mostly of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and Baptist Southern Convention. Included are groups of correspondence of Samuel T. Moorman, a Methodist minister who served in North Carolina and Virginia in 1840-1860's., Rev. George William Keese, a Richmond, Va. Baptist minister, and materials relating to First Baptist Church (Richmond, Va)
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Men's bible class, Hoover Street Baptist Church, 6100 South Hoover, Los Angeles. 1925
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A banquet camera group portrait of the men's bible class of the Hoover Street Baptist Church, located at 6100 South Hoover in Los Angeles. The group is composed of 46 men, dressed in suits and ties and arranged in three rows. The group is posed in front of a large white building with tall windows and a porch on the far left. Writing in white at bottom of image reads "Men's bible class ; Hoover Street Baptist Church ; Bayley Studio ; 6307 Moneta Ave. ; Los Angeles ; no. 647".
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