Subject: African American churches / Genre: group portraits / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: N. P. Greggs came to Los Angeles around 1913 to accept the pastorate of the A. M. E. Church. Two years later he left that church, with forty-seven members, to found the People’s Independent Church on October 2, 1915.
Date:: October 17, 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Large group portrait with Reverend H. Randolph Moore, Vicar of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, seated in front of 50 members of the congregation standing in front of the church.
Date:: [circa 1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group portrait of boys and young men in a Sunday school class at St. Matthias Episcopal Church. The woman on the right is probably the teacher. The group poses on a lawn outside of a building with wooden siding.
Date:: [1880-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group portrait of an African American church congregation in Pasadena. They gathered beside a wooden building (church or house) behind a rail fence with shrubbery in front and tall trees in the background.
Date:: [1890-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group portrait of Reverend N. P. Greggs with the choir and musicians of People's Independent Church of Christ in front of the church (1025 E. 18th St., & and Paloma). The choir has 45 members. The musicians, three men on each side of the choral group, include three violinists, two trumpet players and one saxophonist.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group portrait of the eleven Trustees of People's Independent Church of Christ in front of the church (1025 E. 18th St., & Paloma).
Date:: 1917
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: American Engraving & Electrotype Co.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group portrait of the choir of St. Phillips Episcopal Church with youths and young adults dressed in white robes, the women wearing graduation hats with tassels. Five altar boys are seated in front on the grass.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group portrait of seven African American women and one man to commemorate the observance of Women's Day by the Church of Christian Fellowship.
Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Westminster Presbyterian Church, in Los Angeles, the first African American Presbyterian church in the state of California and west of the Mississippi. Established in 1904, land for the first church building was purchased in 1906, at 35th Place and Denker Ave.
Date:: [circa 1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group portrait of Reverend H. Randolph Moore, Vicar of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, with 10 parishioners. They are posing outside of the church.
Date:: [circa 1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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