Broadside for a performance by Madame Sissieretta Jones: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Broadside advertising a concert at Oak Street A.M.E. Zion Church of Madame Sissieretta Jones on Thursday April 27, 1893. The advertisment has an engraved vignette of Jones as well as information about the musical concert.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1893
• Created by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Sissieretta Jones, American, 1868 - 1933
• Subject of: African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, American, founded 1821
• Type: broadsides
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 7/8 x 6 in. (22.5 x 15.2 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: African Methodist Episcopal
• Topic: Methodist
• Topic: Opera (Music)
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Topic: The Black Church
• Object number: 2012.46.62
• 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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