Sign for the Lallie Kemp Charity Hospital with Clinics & Clinic Hours: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Wood sign with painted lettering surrounded by a frame displaying hours of operation for White and Colored; verso is also painted lettering in an alternate typeface. Text at top reads "LALLIE KEMP CHARITY HOSPITAL / CLINIC & CLINIC HOURS."

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: before 1965
• Created by: Lallie Kemp Charity Hospital, American, founded 1954
• Type: signs
• Medium: paint on wood
• Dimensions: H x W: 32 x 20 1/2 x 3/4 in. (81.3 x 52.1 x 1.9 cm)
• Place depicted: Independence, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Medicine
• Topic: Segregation
• Object number: 2010.10
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dr. Lawrence and Luann Cohen
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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