Advertising card for the Fleet St. A. M. E. Zion Church in Brooklyn: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An advertisement card for the Fleet St. A.M.E. Zion Church in Brooklyn, New York. The card features a large black-and-white drawing of the front of the church surrounded by a thin black border. Information about the church is printed below the picture. The reverse is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1885-1942
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of Brooklyn, American, founded 1885
• Type: advertising cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 3 7/16 × 5 1/2 in. (8.8 × 14 cm)
• Place depicted: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: African Methodist Episcopal
• Topic: Architecture
• Topic: Methodist
• Topic: Religion
• Topic: The Black Church
• Object number: 2014.63.102.17
• 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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