Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photographic print of 3 men and 2 women sitting in front of Jack's Memory Chapel
April 3, 1948
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
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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 Samuel M. Jackson, Eunice Jackson and fellow staff at the newly opened Jack's Memory Chapel at 639 E. Marshall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Jackson stands at the proper left of the photograph, on the sidewalk in front of the door to the building's screen porch, and he is wearing a three-piece suit and tie. Eunice Jackson sits beside him on the steps leading up to the screen porch, wearing a light-colored dress and hat, and holding her purse in her lap. At center right are a woman, Eunice Norwood, and two (2) men, James H. Black, the Mortician of Jack's Memory Chapel, and Leonard Jackson, the Funeral Director. This photograph was taken on the opening day for Jack's Memory Chapel at this location. The names of the people in the photograph are handwritten on the back of the photograph.
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Catalog reference: 2014.75.89
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