Reverend J.V. Pasillas wearing a suit, with a tag on his lapel reading "DELEGADO, XXVIII CONVENCION de la ASOCIACION EVANGELICA INTERDENOMINACIONAL del Sur de California, MAYO 16-19 1935, FULLERTON, CALIF." This photograph was taken at the May 16, 1936 opening of the 28th annual meeting of the Interdenominational Evangelic Association of Southern California held at the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Fullerton, California. Reverend Pasillas was a Los Angeles delegate.
Referenced in more recent article, "Dusting Off the Pages From California's Past," [Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1983]. There is no related article from photograph's time period. This more recent column references the image's subject as part of the Los Angeles Public Library's collection of historical documents. The printed document in the photograph is an original decree establishing Los Angeles as the new capital of the Mexican territory of Alta California. It is signed by then Secretary of the State, Jose Maria Gutierrez de Estrada, on behalf of the interim president of Mexico, Miguel Barragan. The names of other persons, printed in the decree, include: Basilio Arillaga, Deputy President; Antonio Pacheco Leal, President of the Senate; Demetrio del Castillo, Deputy Secretary; and Manuel Miranda, Secretary of the Senate. It is dated May 23, 1935.
