Photographs of First AME Altar Boys

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Black and white photograph of a group of young boys dressed in altar clothes. The group includes eight (8) boys in several different rows. The boys wear white robes and dark skirts and dark collars over their clothing. On the left side of the image are two (2) older women wearing white looking at the camera, one in the foreground and one in the background. the group stands outside with the church interior seen in the upper right quadrant. On the reverse in the lower right corner on the bottom in pen [ALTAR BOYS].

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