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Title
Choir of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, circa 1928
Alternative Title
St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued
[circa 1928]
1928
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
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.
Saint Philip's Episcopal Church was founded in 1910 on Paloma St.
Written on back of photo: St. Phillips Episcopal Church choir- 1915? Paloma Avenue. Standing from left: (1) Bernard Gray, (2) Tom Pollock, (4) John Gray, (5) Ernest Russell, (6) Eddie Douglas, (7) Howard Allen, (8) Patterson, (9) Marion Forsythe, (11) Allie Hill, (12) Webb King. Seated from left: (1) Gladys Riddle (Neal) Butler (later Mrs. Lionel Hampton), (2) Maude Vantage, (3) ____ Kimes, (4) Jeannie Baker, (6) Beulah Hall Wyndon, (7) Ethel Gray, (8) Lillian Weinberg Kelson, (9) Vivian Campbell. Altar boys: (3) Kenneth Levy
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b18_f06_006a.tif
ark:/21198/z1b00p08
Subject
Acolytes
African American churches
African American choirs
King, Web, 1896-1984
Forsythe, Marion
Gray, Ethel O., 1897-1970
Vantage, Maude
Allen, Howard
Gray, Bernard Godfrey, 1894-1997
Gray, John Andrew, 1889-1959
Levy, Kenneth
St. Phillips Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hill, Allie
Wyndon, Beulah Hall, 1901-1952
Russell, Ernest
Douglas, Eddie
Kelson, Lillian Weinberg
Hampton, Gladys Riddle, 1913-1971
Campbell, Vivian
Baker, Jeannie
Pollock, Tom
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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