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Title: Dr. Richard W. Lewis visits family in Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: December 1935
1935-12
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Dr. Lewis is a man with white hair, round black glasses and a three-piece suit with a pocket watch tucked into his vest.
Photograph appears with the article, "Evangelist Puts Bible Into Simplified English," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1935: 8.
Evangelist Dr. Richard Lewis of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, has come to Los Angeles to visit his son and speaks about his translation of the Bible that he is writing that will make the text easier for children to understand.
Handwritten on negative: Dr Richard Lewis 12-28-35:
Text from negative sleeve: 4321 - Dr. Richard W. Lewis evangelist from Arkansas, son lives in LA simplified Bible-to be printed in LA. Childrens Bible 12-28-35 [stamped:] [illegible]
Text from newspaper caption: Dr. Richard W. Lewis
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13470
ark:/21198/zz002hnp52
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Evangelists--California--Los Angeles
Bibles--California--Los Angeles
Lewis, Richard Welborne, 1861-1942
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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