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Cultural Spaces
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Flyer for Vacation Bible School
This is a flyer for a daily Vacation Bible School held in the Sunday School Auditorium at the Mother Bethel AME Church from July 20-31st, 1959. -
Football Squad Colored YMCA
YMCA Football team, champions in 1908. Although the team carried the "Princeton YMCA" name, its players were not affiliated with Princeton University but rather with the local Black YMCA chapter. -
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School
The Bethel AME Church in Pennington was built in 1816 by a small group of free African Americans who purchased the land as an empty lot, as well as nearby lots for homes (Katmann 2014, 6). This photograph of the church’s Sunday School features nineteen children, some siblings. Patricia (née True) Payne has identified all of the children in the picture. (See reverse) -
Mrs. Gene Upshur Willis news clippings
This collection of news clippings are about Upshur family achievements, including: Georgine Upshur and a Y.W.C.A. baby contest, her Philadelphia High School for Girls graduation and coming out parties, and passing of the state mortician’s exam circa 1949.