Mexican First Baptist Church (Primera Iglesia Bautista Mexicana), Los Angeles, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Mexican First Baptist Church (Primera Iglesia Bautista Mexicana), Los Angeles, 1933

Date Created

[circa January 22, 1933]

Date

1933-01-22

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

Spanish

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

The Mexican First Baptist Church building in Belvedere Gardens, East Los Angeles. It is at a corner of an intersection. An unidentified man is walking on the sidewalk on the right of the picture. Residential houses are on either side of the church.
This photograph appears in "Children Shine at Memorizing: Sunday-school Class Wins Renown," Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan 1933: A2.
Sunday school students at the Mexican First Baptist Church (Primera Iglesia Bautista Mexicana) earn money by memorizing Bible verses, and some students know 200 verses.

Caption

Text on negative sleeve: Mexican First Baptist Church
Text accompanying photograph in article: Pupils Earn as They Learn. Above, Frances Quintero and Amelia Lopez, two of the most proficient members of the Sunday-school class. Below, the Mexican First Baptist Church of Belvedere Gardens.
Text above the door: 1A IGLESIA BAUTISTA MEXICANA

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Primera Iglesia Bautista Mexicana (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Churches--California--Los Angeles
Sunday schools--California--Los Angeles County