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Photograph by:
Unidentified  Search this
Subject of:
Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, American, founded 1905  Search this
Unidentified Woman or Women  Search this
Unidentified Man or Men  Search this
Unidentified Child or Children  Search this
Medium:
photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper
Dimensions:
H x W: 7 × 10 in. (17.8 × 25.4 cm)
Type:
photographs
portraits
Place depicted:
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
Date:
ca. 1919
Description:
A black-and-white photograph of a group of fifty (50) women, men and children standing in front of a church, possibly Vernon Chapel AME Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Everyone is standing except for six (6) people in the front row. Most of the group members are adults, but there are some children. The church has light-colored, thin, slat-wood siding. At the proper left and proper right of the photograph are two (2) sets of double doors with windows above. The doors at the left are closed and the doors at the right are open. In between the sets of doors is a large, decorative window. Handwritten in blue ink above the head of one of the women is an [x] mark.
Topic:
African American  Search this
African Methodist Episcopal  Search this
American South  Search this
American West  Search this
Communities  Search this
Religion  Search this
The Black Church  Search this
Credit Line:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Princetta R. Newman
Object number:
2014.75.40
Restrictions & Rights:
Public domain
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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
Collection title:
The Princetta R. Newman Collection of Family Photographs, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Classification:
Media Arts-Photography
Data Source:
National Museum of African American History and Culture
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd522d034c1-f822-41b5-98aa-e861e04a799a
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmaahc_2014.75.40