Advertisement card for Hon. W. H. Ward: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This advertising card is for the Hon. W. H. Ward, an embalmer and notary public in Montgomery, Alabama. The top two thirds of the card contain a black-and-white portrait of Ward looking to the left and dressed in a dark three-piece suit with a white necktie and a pocket watch. Text printed below the photograph includes his name, his profession, his mailing address, and his role as supreme master of the United Brothers of America and Sisters of True Love. The reverse is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: early 20th-mid 20th century
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Hon. W. H. Ward
• Type: advertising cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 6 3/4 × 4 5/16 in. (17.1 × 11 cm)
• Place depicted: Montgomery, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Social life and customs
• Object number: 2014.63.102.22
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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