The SBHLA Digital Photo Gallery includes images encompassing a broad array of subjects including annual conferences and conventions, artwork, baptisms, church buildings, church life and practice, educational institutions, ethnic and African American Baptists, evangelism, missions, people, SBC agencies, social ministries, and women’s work. The digital collection, totaling over 6,500 images, is an active collection with additions presented in the online gallery periodically.
Images from this Digital Photograph Collection are the property of the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives and are intended for non-commercial use. Users of the images are asked to acknowledge that the photographs are from the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
Baptisms
Baptism, Bayou (Near Plains, Louisiana) - Missionary L C Smith Baptizing 23 Converts, 1931
Baptism, Cattle Trough (Virginia) - Pastor Baptizing Two Teenage Candidates in Trough Outside Barn, ca. 1910
Baptism, Creek (Asia) - Southern Baptist Missionary Baptizes Converts, 1982
Baptism, Creek (Guayaybi, Paraguay) - Pastor of First Baptist Church Victor Gimenez Baptizing A Candidate, 1986
Baptism, Creek (Liberty, Texas) - Hawkins Baptist Church - 29 Converts Being Baptized, ca. 1910
Baptism, Creek (New York), ca. 1940
Baptism, Creek (Nigeria) - Baptism Near Muslim Village, 1956
Baptism, Creek (Niota, Tennessee) - Union McMinn Baptist Church - Pastor Baptizing Candidates, 1955
Baptism, Creek - Native American Baptism, ca. 1915
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (Albuquerque, New Mexico) - First Baptist Church Baptism Service, ca. 1990
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (East Manila, Philippines) - Pasig Baptist Church, 1995
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (Fukuoka, Japan) - Nagazumi Baptist Church, ca. 1988
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (Harvey, Illinois) - Harvey Missionary Baptist Church, 1966
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (Kansas City, Missouri) - Armour Heights Baptist Church - Baptizing Jewish Convert, 1962
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (Memphis, Tennessee) - Bellevue Baptist Church - R G Lee Baptizing a Candidate, 1955
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (Memphis, Tennessee) - Central Avenue Baptist Church, 1949
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (Murfreesboro, Tennessee) - First Baptist Church Baptism Service, 1990
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (Panama City, Panama) - Primera Iglesia Bautista, 1961
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (Philippines), 1953
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (Santa Fe, New Mexico) - Spanish Baptist Mission Church - Missionary Miguel Lopez Baptizes Convert, ca. 1960
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (Shreveport, Louisiana) - First Baptist Church - M. E. Dodd Baptizing His Grandson, ca. 1944
Baptism, Indoor Baptistry (Warsaw, Poland) - Baptist Church Baptism Service, ca. 1975
Baptism, Lake (Malawi) - Jameson Mwenyeheri Prays While SBC Missionary Steve Evans Prepares to Baptize a New Believer in Lake Malawi, 1995
Baptism, Lake (Near Marietta, Oklahoma), ca. 1890
Baptism, Lake - Native American Baptism Service, 1912
Baptism, Lake - Native American Baptism Service, 1914
Baptism, Mountain Gorge (Bryson City, North Carolina), ca. 1973
Baptism, Mountain Gorge (Yugoslavia), 1934
Baptism, Ocean Basin (Gulf of Mexico, Off Mississippi Coast) - Baptism of Italian Immigrants, 1910
Baptism, Pond - Forestburg Baptist Church (Forestburg, Texas), ca. 1950
Baptism, Portable Indoor Baptistry (Atlanta, Georgia) - Pastor of First Missionary Baptist Church Bernard Miller Baptizes His Son at SBC Annual Meeting, 1995
Baptism, Portable Indoor Baptistry (Nashville, Tennessee) - SBC Annual Meeting, 2005
Baptism, Portable Indoor Baptistry (Nashville, Tennessee) - SBC Annual Meeting, 2005
Baptism, River (Africa) - Southern Baptist Missionary Baptizes Converts, 1996
Baptism, River (Camajunai, Santa Clara Province, Cuba) - Pastor Enrique Vazquez Baptizes Converts, 1932
Baptism, River (Cuba) - Baptism Under Cuban Palm Trees, 1932
Baptism, River (Denham Springs, Louisiana) - Baptizing 41 Converts, ca. 1940
Baptism, River (Denham Springs, Louisiana) - Browsard Grove Baptist Church (African American), ca. 1935
Baptism, River (Fort Worth, Texas) - Baptism of World War I Soldiers and Their Families at Trinity River Near Camp Bowie, 1918
Baptism, River (Georgia) - Tabernacle Baptist Church, ca. 1930
Baptism, River (Illinois) - Baptizing German Immigrants, ca. 1915
Baptism, River (Japan) - SBC Missionary Edwin Dozier Baptizing a Convert with Train Tracks in Background, ca. 1955
Baptism, River (Kenya) - Southern Baptist Leaders Morris Chapman and Jimmy Draper Participate in Baptism Service, 1990
Baptism, River (Louisiana), ca. 1930
Baptism, River (Near Sapporo, Japan) - Convert Comes Forward to be Baptized by SBC Missionary Marion Moorehead, ca. 1960
Baptism, River (Near Sapporo, Japan) - Southern Baptist Missionary Marion Moorehead Baptizes a Convert, ca. 1955
Baptism, River (Oklahoma) - Pawnee Indian Baptism, ca. 1920
Baptism, River (Oklahoma) - Pawnee Joseph Howel Baptism, 1910
Baptism, River (Powell, Alabama) - Baptizing 64 Indian Converts, ca. 1920
Baptism, River (Seoul, South Korea) - Baptism in Han River at Baptist World Alliance Meeting, 1990
Baptism, River (Seoul, South Korea) - Baptism in Han River at Baptist World Alliance Meeting, 1990
Baptism, River (Texas) - Baker James Cauthen Baptizing Candidates, ca. 1935
Baptism, River (Texas) - Camp Meeting, 1912
Baptism, River (Texas) - Mexican Baptism Service in the Rio Grande River, 1932
Baptism, River (Tokyo, Japan) - Pastor Kiyoki Yuua Baptizes a Convert, ca. 1960
Baptism, River (Tokyo, Japan) - Pastor Kiyoki Yuua Baptizes a Convert in the Tamagawa River, ca. 1960
Baptism, River - Home Missionary Jimmy Anderson Baptizes New Convert in Colorado River, ca. 1986
Baptism, Sea (Cambodia), 1991
Baptism, Sea (Israel) - Dwight Baker Baptizes Arab Man in Sea of Galilee, ca. 1955
Baptism, Sea (Israel) - Robert Lindsey Baptizing His Son in the Sea of Galilee, 1956
Baptism, Sea (Vietnam) - US Air Force Chaplain Robert Browning Baptizing in South China Sea, 1968
