People being baptized during Jehovah's Witnesses convention at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Calif., 1974

Item Overview

Title: People being baptized during Jehovah's Witnesses convention at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Calif., 1974
Photographer: Rogers, Art
Date Created: July 26, 1974
Date: 1974-07-26
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Caption: A GATHERING OF WITNESSES--Thousands of persons attending a regional convention of Jehovah's Witnesses at Dodger Stadium sit under parasols in the warm sun during a Friday service in which 1,323 new ministers, or members, were baptized, below. Two portable pools were set up for the rites, witnessed by 47,000.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 5 x 5 cm.
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Baptism
Outdoor religious services--California--Los Angeles County
Religion
Religious gatherings--California--Los Angeles County
Jehovah's Witnesses--California--Los Angeles County

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b736_278462A-1
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002ptkh
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