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Description:: The Episcopal Church of the Advent was founded in 1925. As constituent members of the Anglican Communion in the United States, we are descendants of and partners with the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church. Lewis P. Bohler was the pastor from 1961 to 1996.
Date:: January 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: One Hundred or more African American adults and children pose for a group portrait at Eastlake Park (now Lincoln Park) during a picnic sponsored by their employer, Bullocks department Store.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photograph might be from the California Historical Society/Title Insurance & Trust Co. Collection.
Date:: 1876
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: House of Nannie V. Holt and James L. Holt, located at 1320 Albany St., Los Angeles.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: On November 28, 1866, Biddy Mason purchased two lots, bounded by Spring, Fort (now Broadway), 3rd and 4th Streets on the, then, outskirts of Los Angeles, for $250. Eighteen years later it was next to the city center.
Date:: [circa 1901]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Biddy Mason was brought to California as a slave in a wagon train. She petitioned for her freedom, and a judge granted it to her and her family in 1856. She and her family lived with Robert Owens, Sr., when she first moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter Ellen married Robert Owen's son Charles.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: The Circus Saints and Sinners Club of America is a national organization that raises money for local charities.
Date:: [1950s-1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Charles Owens (center, white shirt and dark suit) among many other people in front of a brick building with a sign reading "Los Angeles Groceries.
Date:: [between 1860-1890]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: The unidentified couple in the foreground looks like Loren Miller, Jr. (wearing glasses and looking at pamphlet) and his first wife Anne M. Risher Miller. The event might be the NAACP banquet at which Loren Miller, Sr., spoke in October 1962.
Date:: October 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Interior view of the Holman United Methodist Church -- a large, open space with light streaming through small, asymmetrical piercings in the thick wall and matching rectangular, sculptural pendant light fixtures. The church is filled to capacity with the pastor on the right curing a church service.
Date:: [circa 1958]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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