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Title
Chinese Methodist Church play
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Quillen, Harry
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1940
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
The stage is set at the Chinese Methodist Church at New High Street for a bible play. The audience, mainly children, sit on wooden chairs watching a cloaked figure standing next to votive candles on a dias where the pulpit used to be. Women in choir robes hold candles on either side of the stage. Mary Lee holds a candle on the far right.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00073417
Harry Quillen Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
A-010-421 4x5; L.A.-Churches-Chinese Methodist Church; GPC_b81
CARL0000076358
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/120456
Subject
Chinese United Methodist Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Bible plays
Methodist church buildings--California--Los Angeles
Church buildings--California--Los Angeles

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