Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Open Kitchen
1930s
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black-and-white photograph of a building used by Father Divine to provide food and shelter during the 1930s. A hand painted sign on the door reads "Pacific Open Kitchen." The building next door is delapidated, with broken windows and missing steps. An inscription on the verso reads [FATHER DEVINE'S OPEN KITCHEN 1940's BROOKLYN].
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Catalog reference: 2010.74.63