Pre-Centennial Program: 1852-1951: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Program from the Bethel A.M.E. Church for the pre-centennial in 1951. The blue paper cover has the title at the top with [BETHEL A.M.E. CHURCH / 916 LAGUNA STREET / SAN FRANCISCO / CALIFORNIA / Rev. C. Wayne Love, Minister] printed in black in the center. The price is listed as twenty-five (25) cents. The edges of the cover are discolored. There is an image of the church inside the front cover. The first article begins [NINETY YEAR OF PROGRESS...]. The program is for the eighty-seventh (87th) session of the California Conference of the A.M.E. Church. There are twenty-four (24) pages and a list of patrons on the interior back cover. The reverse is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1951
• Created by: Bethel A.M.E. Church, American, founded 1852
• Subject of: Rev. C. Wayne Love, American, 1907 - 1978
• Subject of: African Methodist Episcopal Church, American, founded 1816
• Type: programs
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 8 3/4 × 5 5/8 × 1/8 in. (22.2 × 14.3 × 0.3 cm)
• Place depicted: San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: African Methodist Episcopal
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Methodist
• Topic: Religion
• Topic: Social life and customs
• Topic: The Black Church
• Object number: 2015.97.40.17.1
• 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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