Brochure for the traveling exhibition "Grace Before Dying": Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A photocopy of a web brochure for the traveling exhibit “Grace Before Dying,” printed on white paper in black ink. It has eight (8) pages. Included in the brochure are photographs of the exhibition, persons in hospice care at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, participants in the quilting program at the prison, and quilts. The front page of photocopy has an inscription in the bottom right corner in black that reads “www.gracebeforedying.org.”

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2009
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, American, founded 1835
• Type: photocopies
• Type: brochures
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
• Place captured: Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Funeral customs and rites
• Topic: Health
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Prisons
• Object number: 2018.54.5
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Lori Waselchuk
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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