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Negro churches - Baptist Churches, Washington, D.C. - R. St. Baptist Church – Vintage Wall Art

Negro churches - Baptist Churches, Washington, D.C. - R. St. Baptist Church, [1899?] — historic photograph
Negro churches - Baptist Churches, Washington, D.C. - R. St. Baptist Church, [1899?]. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Negro churches - Baptist Churches, Washington, D.C. - R. St. Baptist Church in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The caption identifies this view as a Baptist church on R Street in Washington, D.C., and the card reports that the print was shown in the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900. That exhibit, assembled under the direction of sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois, used photographs to document Black American life and challenge common stereotypes. Churches anchored neighborhoods, schools and mutual aid societies in the capital during these decades, so a picture like this one shows more than a building. The date is uncertain and is recorded in brackets as circa 1899.

Created / published[1899?]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.
SubjectsTitle and other information transcribed from caption card. Reportedly displayed as part of the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Caption card tracings: Washington, DC -- Streets; Washington, DC -- R St. B- C-; Churches -- Wash., DC; Churches, Baptist -- Washington, DC; African American Churches -- Wash., DC; African Americans; Churches; Geog.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,394 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143143

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