Reverend Elsie Peters demonstrates how she communicates during services to the deaf members of the church, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Reverend Elsie Peters demonstrates how she communicates during services to the deaf members of the church, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: January 19, 1936
Date: 1936-01-19
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph appears with the article, "Signs Used For Prayer," Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan 1936: A1.
Mrs. Elsie Peters and her husband Grover W. are the founders and pastors of a church for the deaf, mute and blind. The churchgoers of the Peters' church can either understand through sign language, reading lips or feeling the hands of the person interpreting the sermons and songs.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: By this sign Mrs. Peters is voicing with her hands the preposition "in," the phrase "who art" being superfluous in conveying the idea.
Text from negative sleeve: 3656 Rev. Elsie Peters founded, w/husband Grover W. Peters, first full Gospel Church for the Deaf [stamped:] Feb 13 1936

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