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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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Bethel Baptist Church Ground Breaking Service
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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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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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Collection of photographs illustrating places mentioned in the works of Charles Dickens
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A collection of 127 photographs depicting places throughout England featured in the writings of Charles Dickens as they appeared in approximately 1890 to approximately 1910. Most of the photographs feature the exteriors of buildings in London, Rochester, Canterbury, Dover, Kent, and Portsmouth. The buildings include shops, residences, rooming houses, inns and hotels, cathedrals, churches, abbeys, and a castle. There are multiple photographs of Rochester Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, and Gray's Inn. The majority of the photographs depict locations in Dickens's novels. Handwritten captions on the verso reference the work's title and occasionally the chapter in which the place appears.The novels represented are Bleak House (no. 1-11); David Copperfield (no. 12-23); Great expectations (no. 24-25); Little Dorrit (no. 26-30); Martin Chuzzlewit (no. 31-44); The mystery of Edwin Drood (no. 45-64); Nicholas Nickleby (no. 66-67); Oliver Twist (no. 68-74); and Pickwick papers (no. 76-78). There is also a group of photographs depicting locations in the "Tramps" chapter of Dickens's The uncommercial traveler (no. 79-84), as well as locations where Dickens himself stayed during his writing and travels (no. 86-121).
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Photographs of family, relatives, and friends
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18 pieces. Chiefly carte-de-visite and card photographs of young women and children, as well as the exterior of "The Adams Place, Bethel, Vermont," a photograph of four women on camels in front of Egyptian pyramids, 1925, and two photographs of the interior of a sitting room with a mural over the fireplace.
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Alaska (Items 1-80)
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Views along the Kuskowim River, Bethel, Nushagak, Togiak, Ounalaska and Bethel. Photographs of Eskimos, traders, trading posts, churches and buildings of these areas. Some very interesting "Before and After" shots of Eskimos with regard to the "civilizing" influence of Christianity. Portraits of Edith Kilbuck, one of the missionaries, and her children.
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