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Description:: This is an image of the silver (?) altar cross at the Church of Epiphany in Los Angeles. It is decorated with a relief pattern of flowers and leaves, with the letters 'LHC' intertwined at the intersection. The cross was donated in memory of Arthur Merick Byam (1896). It cross stands on a three-tiered base, with each tier inscribed individually. The topmost tier reads, "To the Glory of GOD and in loving memory of," the middle tier reads, "Arthur Merick Byam, Aged 55." and the base tier quotes, "But God is good."
Date:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Exterior wall of church, supported by square pillars topped with pyramidal decorations, with narrow recessed windows, and cross-crosslet with circle visible at far right, with three women seated on low wall at bottom right and palm trees, sidewalk, and road with crosswalk in foreground
Date:: [1920-1939?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: A sign advertising the expansion of Father Divine's "heaven," a converted hotel used as a Peace Mission and Truth Center
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Miriam Braun, sits in a pew of a church with a prayer book in her hands. Above her, stained glass windows are visible.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Miriam Braun, sits in a pew of a church with a prayer book in her hands. Above her, stained glass depicting holy scenes are visible.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Miriam Braun, sits in a pew of a church with a prayer book in her hands. Above her, stained glass windows are visible.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Property purchased to be used for Father Divine's International Peace Mission movement. Father Divine, also known as Reverend M.J. Divine was a controversial African American spiritual leader from 1907-1965. He founded the International Peace Mission movement and claimed to be God
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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