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Negro churches - Baptist Churches, Washington, D.C. - Vermont Ave. Baptist Church – Vintage Print

Negro churches - Baptist Churches, Washington, D.C. - Vermont Ave. Baptist Church, [1899?] — historic photograph
Negro churches - Baptist Churches, Washington, D.C. - Vermont Ave. 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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Negro churches - Baptist Churches, Washington, D.C. - Vermont Ave. Baptist Church comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, pictured here in Washington, D.C., belonged to the city's large network of Black Baptist congregations around 1899. The caption card notes that the photograph was shown in the American Negro exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900, a display organized largely by W.E.B. Du Bois to present the lives and achievements of Black Americans to an international audience. Churches like this one were central to Black neighborhoods, serving as places of worship, schooling, mutual aid and civic organizing. The title's wording reflects the language of its era and is worth noting as a record of how the subject was labeled then.

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 -- Vermont Ave. B- C-; Churches -- Washington, DC; Churches, Baptist -- Wash., DC; African American churches -- Wash., DC; African Americans; Churches; Geog.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,397 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-143144

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