John G. Amarantos holding up wooden cross he recovered from the ocean during Greek Orthodox rite in Long Beach, Calif., 1967
Item Overview
- Title
- John G. Amarantos holding up wooden cross he recovered from the ocean during Greek Orthodox rite in Long Beach, Calif., 1967
- Photographer
- Cormier, Don
- Date Created
- January 9, 1967
- Date
- 1967-01-09
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Caption
- MODERN TOUCH TO ANCIENT RITE--The Rt. Rev. Bishop Demetrios of the Greek Orthodox Church drops a small wooden cross from helicopter into Long Beach's Rainbow Lagoon and it is recovered by John G. Amarantos, 31, one of five swimmers braving the 48-degree water. Amarantos received a special blessing for his feat. The rite commemorates the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist in River Jordan.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 35 mm.
- Medium
- b&w negative
Keywords
- Genre
- news photographs
- Location
- Long Beach (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 33.7631832187573
- Latitude
- -118.189845085144
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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People
Religion
Culture
Orthodox Eastern Church--Rites and ceremonies--California--Long Beach
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- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclalat_1429_b587_234927
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0002vc6s
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- License
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