Advertisement card for S. A. Ashcraft: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This advertising card is for the missionary and Sunday school teacher S. A. Ashcraft of Newport News, Virginia. The top three quarters of the card features a print of a black-and-white photograph of Ashcraft taken by E. P. Griffith. Printed below the photograph are Ashcraft's name, position as teacher and missionary, and address. The reverse is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1910s
• Photograph by: E. P. Griffith
• Subject of: S. A. Ashcraft
• Type: advertising cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 7 7/8 × 5 in. (20 × 12.7 cm)
• Place depicted: Newport News, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Christianity
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Religion
• Object number: 2014.63.102.23
• 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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