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Mathilda Hughes

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Description: Mathilda Hughes, wife of Louis Hughes. They were charter members of St. Mark's AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Church, and she was the first stewardess o...
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Bishop Schuyler E. Garth

Date: 09 14 1944
Description: Rev. Doctor Schuyler E. Garth, newly appointed Methodist Bishop for the Wisconsin area, seated at a desk.
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Everetta Bass and Llora

Date: 1895
Description: Everetta Bass standing next to a woman identified as Llora. They are standing in front of a house at 131 East Montello Street, with the Methodist Church, l...
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Ida Vanderhoef at Memorial Organ

Date: 11 03 1949
Description: Mrs. James J. (Ida) Vanderhoef sits at the newly dedicated Joyce and Victor Glenn Memorial Organ at Bashford Methodist church located at the corner of Nort...
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Carl Stromberg

Date: 10 30 1953
Description: Portrait of Carl Stromberg, a Methodist minister newly appointed to First-University Methodist Church at 203 Wisconsin Avenue. His father, brother, and fou...
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Reverend Antonio Parroni

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Portrait of Reverend Antonio Parroni standing at the altar of the Chiesa Italiana Methodist Church at 103 South Lake Street where he was minister from 1929...
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South Shore Methodist Church Young Adults Club Dance

Date: 12 14 1957
Description: Ruby and Richard Olson dance at the South Shore Methodist Church Young Adults Club Dance.
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Mother with Daughter to be Baptized

Date: 05 21 1954
Description: Cathryn Montgomery with her daughter, Cathryn Suzanne, who is to be baptized at First Methodist church. The maternal grandparents in Madison are Mr. and Mr...
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Portrait of Hon. L.H. Palmer

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Lucian (or Lucien) H. Palmer. Text with negative reads: "Hon. L.H. Palmer, member of the St. Mark's AME Church. He was the first...
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Horace W. Dangerfield

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Horace W. Dangerfield, (b. 1838, d. 1893) Organizer and member of the St. Mark's AME Church, Milw. From a church pamphlet lo...
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James Johnson

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Description: Text on negative sleeve reads: "'James Johnson, better known as Uncle Jimmie,' charter member and first and only sexton to 1893 of St. Mark's AME Church, M...
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Reverend James A. Gillespie

Date: 1870
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of a man seated, with a woman standing next to him. Caption reads: "Rev. Jas. Gillespie & wife. Preached in Necedah over 50 years ...
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Myra Denning Allison

Date: 1930
Description: Portrait of Myra Denning Allison, daughter of Civil War veteran Charles Denning. Myra ran an interracial and international boarding house at 217 N. Mills S...

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