Invitation to a hat rally at Macedonia Baptist Church: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Card invitation to a hat rally at the Macedonia Baptist Church. The small paper is blue with black printed text. The card reads [Come and enjoy an evening of pleasure at / OUR HAT RALLY / given by / The Social Committee of the Ladies Missionary Society / AT MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH]. The church location at Fremont and Lafayette Avenues is listed below followed by the time of the event at 8 p.m. on March 18, 1948. Committee members, Mary Blake and Evelyn Clayton, and Pastor W. L. Clayton are at the bottom. The reverse is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1948
• Created by: Macedonia Baptist Church, American, founded 1874
• Subject of: Rev. Willard L. Clayton, American, died 1992
• Type: ephemera
• Type: cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 2 3/8 × 4 in. (6 × 10.2 cm)
• Place depicted: Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Baptist
• Topic: Clothing and dress
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Religion
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2017.14.8
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Stokes/Washington Family
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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