[First Christian Church 27th Anniversary Celebration]

Photograph of the First Christian Church 27th Anniversary celebration. The church officials in the photo are, back row - left to right: E.C. Blackburn, John Stanley, Reverend Anglemyer, A. Roy, and H.T. Whitson. Front row - left to right: Mrs. Whitson, Mrs. Stanley, Mrs. Anglemyer, and Pauline Renwick. The cake they are standing behind was molded to look like church structure and weighed 150 pounds.
Date: 1942
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church After a Snowstorm]

Photograph of the First Christian Church after a snowstorm that took place on January 11, 1973. Three and a half inches of snow covers the church and the church bus parked on the left hand side of the church.
Date: January 12, 1973
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church After a Snowstorm]

Photograph of the First Christian Church after a snowstorm that took place on February 13, 1958.
Date: February 13, 1958
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church Boy Scout Troop]

Photograph of the First Christian Church Boy Scout Troop.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church Choir Quartet]

Photograph of the First Christian Church Choir Quartet. Left to right are: Bill Reeder, Kathryn Anglemyer, Pat Hilton, and Robert Gartman.
Date: December 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church Communion Table]

Photograph of the First Christian Church communion table, which is carved with an inset of the Last Supper. The table was given in memory of the Charter Members of the Church, by the Loyal Women's Bible Class for the new sanctuary. The women had earned $1000 making all kinds of needlework, mostly quilting, for eight years to provide this gift to the congregation.
Date: 1956
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church Dedication]

Photograph of the new church building dedication for the First Christian Church. The Reverend Claude F. Pierce (dressed in white shirt and pants with dark jacket in front with his hands on his hips) was the minister here 1911-1915.
Date: July 1915
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church Fellowship Hall]

Photograph of the First Christian Church Fellowship Hall. Left to right is Mrs. John H. McDonald, a charter member, explaining the church history to two young members, Mark Huber and his cousin, Pete Huber.
Date: August 26, 1960
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church Greeters for Sunday Morning Service]

Photograph of greeters for the Sunday Morning Worship Service at First Christian Church. They are shown here in the narthex of the church at 620 Woodworth Blvd. Front row, left to right: Robert A. Bowers, Johnny Edgerton, and Leatrice Huber. Back row, left to right: Glynn Lowther, Len Caillouet, and Fred Day.
Date: April 1979
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church Sanctuary]

Photograph of the First Christian Church sanctuary.
Date: 1981
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church Youth Choir]

Photograph of the First Christian Church Youth Choir. Back row - left to right: Dexter McCoy, Wayne Phillips, Mark Youngblood, Elizabeth Donan, Shirley Douglas, Rosealie Pentecost, Pat Hilton, Alyce Jane Speck, Homer Claude Holmes, Murphy Vaught, Billy Reeder, Robert Gartman, Isaac Bertrand. Front row - left to right: Austine Mills (pianist), Betty West, Willie Mae West, Donya Lu Eidom, Cathryne Anglemyer, Ann Montgomery, Betty Garrett, Kathryn Quinn, Nancy Prafka, Geraldine Bertrand, Catherine Ann Vaught, Marian Dooley. Standing in front - left to right: A.E. Catanach, Director, Mrs. C.H. McIntosh (nee Peggy Catanach) soprano soloist.
Date: December 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church Youth Choir]

Photograph of the First Christian Church Youth Choir, about 1948. The adults standing on the left side of the photo are Peggy Catanach, Assistant Choir Director, and A.E. Catanach (her father), choir director. Sitting at the piano on the right of the photo is the pianist for the choir, Austin Mills. Child sitting in pew is one of the younger Shiflett boys.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church Youth Choir 1954]

Photograph of the First Christian Church Youth Choir. Janis Joplin, a Rock Star in the 1960's, is on the second row, second from the left. She is 14 in the photo and her birthday is January 19, 1940, so she was almost 15. First row - left to right: Marilyn Harbert, Martha Oliver, Delmer Fussell, Dennis Trahan, Terry Trahan, Roy Murphy III, Tommy Stansbury. Second row - left to right: Sandra Logan, Janis Joplin, Elva Buroker, Harriett Axtell, Mary Jane Budwine, Janet Addcox, Linda Douglas, Cynthia "Cookie" Swearingen, Sylvia Swearingen, Carol Quinn, Betty Ann Murphy, Shirley Logan. Third row - left to right: Alline Dawson, Ila Mae Prafka, Jane Catanach, George Fussell, Paul B. Bertrand, Phillip Foote, Robert Kettrick, Arthur Catanach, Darrell Evans, Doris Cannon, Peggy McIntosh, Gladys Rigsby, Charlotte Pittman, not known. Austine Mills was the pianist and A.E. Catanach was the Director but they are not in the photograph.
Date: December 26, 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[First Christian Church Youth Round Up - June 1954]

Photograph of the First Christian Church Youth Round up in June 1954. Kneeling in front, left to right are Jennilou Nowlin, Loralea Smith, Judy Dawson and Sarah Lowther. Standing on pavement holding banners, left to right are Jackie Hanson, Glynda Lowther, Robbie Wright, Sylvia Swearingen, Norma Moos, Carol Quinn, Alline Dawson, Cynthia Swearingen, Bowden Bertrand, and Lennie Stansbury (the parade director). Standing in wagon, left to right are Darrell Evans, Nathalie Bienvenue, Delmar Fussell, Jane Ashley, Janis Hickey, Elva Buroker, Sarah Brazil, Charlotte Pittman and Janet Addcox.
Date: June 1954
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Glenda Watson]

Photograph of Glenda Watson, a First Christian Church's Link Missionary at D.C.C.M., Monieka, Coquilhatville, Belgian Congo, 1954-1958.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Members of the First Christian Church]

Photograph of the members of the First Christian Church. Left to right: Julia Jones, Glenn Lowther, Mark Hockett, Dr. D. Ray Lindley (Interim Minister), and Olive Fern Arisco. Event not known.
Date: 1979
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men and Women on the Steps of the First Christian Church in Port Arthur, Texas]

Photograph of a large group of men, women, and children posing on the balcony and steps of the First Christian Church in Port Arthur, Texas.
Date: 1946
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Men, Women, and Children on the Steps of the First Christian Church in Port Arthur, Texas]

Photograph of men, women, and children standing and sitting on the steps and balcony of the First Christian Church in Port Arthur, Texas. Standing above steps, left to right: Charles W. Horan, Henry W. Davis, John H. Stanley, Homer T. Whitson, Ezra Cheek, J.B. Talley, John H. McDonald, James S. Dillinger; back row, on steps, left to right are Mr. Boyington, Mrs. Charles E. Perry, Reverend Chas. D. Poston, Mrs. C. D. Poston, S. E. Gartman holding his son, Robert Ellis Gartman, and W. F. Sylvester; Second row from back, left to right: Mrs. W. H. Steed (Matilda), Mrs. O. P. Pearce, Rudolph W. Wendling, Mrs. J. S. Dillinger (Mary), Mrs. J. B. Talley, C. E. Perry, Mrs. Gay; left - man standing alone, not known; Mrs. E. E. Martin, Mary Lou Swan, Mrs. J.B. McKinney, Cappie McDonald; seated on steps: Mrs. J. R. Jolley, Mrs. Benson, Mrs. Boyington, Mrs. Ezra Creek, Mrs. J. H. Stanley, two Gay children - names not known, Grace Foot (standing). Left: Mrs. R. W. Wendling, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. J. H. McDonald, Mrs. E. E. Johnson, Mrs. Sitton, Phyllis McDonald, Jim Steed - young girl, Jane Stanley, Jewel Dillinger; right - standing: Mrs. Wm. J. …
Date: September 1930
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ministers of the First Christian Church, Port Arthur, Texas (open access)

Ministers of the First Christian Church, Port Arthur, Texas

Book discussing all the Ministers of the Port Arthur First Christian Church from 1904-1990.
Date: 1990
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Mother's Day at First Christian Church]

Photograph of three women on Mother's Day at the First Christian Church. Joan Edwards presented flowers to the oldest and youngest mothers. Left to right are Joan Edwards, Mrs. G.W. Cline (the oldest mother present), and Vicki Cropper (the youngest mother present).
Date: 1973
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[On the Steps of the First Christian Church in Port Arthur, Texas]

Photograph of a group of women and children standing on the steps of the First Christian Church in Port Arthur, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Vacation Bible School]

Photograph of the First Christian Church Vacation Bible School. The two Kindergarten teachers standing in back are Belinda Harmon and Marie Lowther."
Date: 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Vacation Bible School]

Photograph of the First Christian Church Vacation Bible School. Teachers standing behind the children are, left to right: Alline Redd, Margie Jones, and Mary Ann McCoy.
Date: 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Vesper Services Camp Wildurr]

Photograph of the young campers of Camp Wildurr.
Date: 1953
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History