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First Baptist Church of San Francisco, built 1849

Description: Exterior of a wooden church with a small sign above window reading "Baptist Chapel" and people standing in the doorway. The First Baptist Church of San Francisco was organized in 1849 by Reverend Osgood Church Wheeler.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: [approximately 1849-1850s]
Call number: (photDAG 61)
Provenance: Acquired from various sources. Assembled into a collection by the Library from various sources. See finding aid for sources of individual items.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Items are fragile. Available with curatorial approval. Please view digital surrogates.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The copyright for daguerreotypes by Robert Shlaer (photDAG 116, photDAG 154) is held by Shlaer. For the rest of the collection, the responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.

First Baptist Church of San Francisco, built 1849

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photDAG 61

"Serra's Church" sign, Mission San Juan Capistrano

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A doorway with "Serra's Church" sign and cross at Mission San Juan Capistrano in San Juan Capistrano, California.

photCL_555_06_2664

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The history of the First Baptist Church of San Francisco, California, 1849-1944

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Bethel Baptist Church Ground Breaking Service

Visual Materials

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

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-----. "A Sketch of the life and Times of the late Revd John Stutterd the founder and first pastor for 51 years of the Baptist Church Colne Lancashire," A.MS. (6 p.). (SN)

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Cataloger's Note: also six blank pages; the information about John Stutterd covers the years 1748-1785, but the history of the Baptist church begins much earlier, in the 1600s.

SFP 836

First Baptist Church of San Francisco, built 1849

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