Easter card--Cape Mount--A gift to the members of the Foreign Missionary Box Association of the Protestant Episcopal Church – Antique Print
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(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 antique engraving captures Easter card--Cape Mount--A gift to the members of the Foreign Missionary Box Association of the Protestant Episcopal Church in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Easter card--Cape Mount--A gift to the members of the Foreign Missionary Box Association of the Protestant Episcopal Church
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Cape Mount, a coastal district of Liberia, is the place named in this engraved Easter card, which was given to members of the Foreign Missionary Box Association of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society, whose papers include this card, as a settlement for free Black Americans and later for people freed from slave ships. Cards like this one linked churchgoers in the United States to mission work in West Africa, and the Easter greeting ties the seasonal sentiment to that overseas effort. The print is dated only to between 1840 and 1900, so its exact year is uncertain.
| Created / published | [between 1840 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Easter cards 1840-1900.Engravings 1840-1900. |
| Notes | Forms part of: American Colonization Society Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Islands--Liberia--1840-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,657 × 3,742 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221648 |
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