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Museum object · Time-based Media - Moving Images

Untitled

1970-1989

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

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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 photographic print of women setting up communion at church. At the bottom of this aerial photograph, two women are stand at the alter. One is carrying a stack of communion ware and the other has her hand on the open bible that's standing on the table. Both women are wearing printed floral dresses. Behind them on the right other women are laying communion linen. There is a woman standing at the pulpit wearing a floral dress. On the far left in the top right corner, group of women are handling a plastic cover. There are no inscrptions, front or back.

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Catalog reference: 2016.118.24

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