Items

• Membership Letter, F. Bleax, Pastor
  Recommendation Letter for Deacon Ebenezer Williams. The Deacon's pastor, Pastor Bleax, writes a letter of support summarizing his character, service and contribution to Mt Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church of Westbury, Long Island, NY. Though not specifically stated, it is believed that the intended recipient of the letter would have been church leadership at Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.
• Keep Us Flying poster
  Poster created by the U.S. Treasury Department during World War II to encourage war bond purchase.
• [Woman wearing large straw hat poses on the beach]
  This photo features a smiling, glowing woman in a one-piece strapless bathing suit and a large straw hat posing in the sand in the sunshine at Chicken Bone Beach.
• Letter from Anita Cornwell to Audre Lorde
  An impassioned letter between women who had a deep friendship. Audre Lorde (1934 - 1992) was an American poet, novelist, memoirist, essayist (IMDb, n.d.). She received a master’s degree in Library Science and worked as a young adult librarian and school librarian in the 1960’s (Cerro Cosco Community College 2025). She also published poetry influenced by her reactions to racism, sexism, and homophobia. She married and had two children. Her first major book of poetry, Coal was published in 1976, and she continued to publish until her death from liver cancer in 1992.
• Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church (structure)
  Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1899