Postcard envelope featuring the Morris Memorial Building: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A postcard envelope featuring a color drawing of the Morris Memorial Building in Nashville, Tennessee. Above the building is black text reading [MORRIS MEMORIAL-HOME, SUNDAY / SCHOOL PUBLISHING BOARD, Nashville, Tenn.]. Inside, an accordion album of drawings depicting the various rooms and uses of the building. The back of the postcard is unused with [A TRIP THROUGH / THE MORRIS MEMORIAL BUIILDING / HOME SUNDAY SCHOOL PUBLISHING BOARD / NASHVILLE, TENN.] printed in black text at the top center, with a [PLACE / STAMP /HERE] in the upper right corner and [TO] at the center with three horizontal lines. On the left edge is black text reading [THIS SIDE FOR ADDRESS].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1924
• Created by: Sunday School Publishing Board, American, founded 1915
• Type: envelopes
• Type: postcards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 4 1/4 x 6 1/8 in. (10.8 x 15.6 cm)
• Place depicted: Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Baptist
• Topic: Building Arts
• Topic: Correspondence
• Topic: Mass media
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: U.S. History, 1919-1933
• Object number: 2011.36.78
• 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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