Photographic print of Jack's Memory Chapel in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Object Details

Description: A black-and-white photograph of Jack's Memory Chapel, located at 639 E. Marshall Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The business is in a front-gabled house that has one story in the front and two or more stories in the back. The building has brick porch posts, light-colored wood siding, a screened-in porch, and a window unit air conditioner in the window at the proper left. In the center of the photograph is a small lamp post next to the sidewalk. At the proper left side of the photograph, below the house's gable, is a long neon sign [JACK'S MEMORY CHAPEL]. At the proper right side of the photograph, above the house's screen porch and on top of the gable, is a clock with the name of the business around the clock [JACK'S MEMORY CHAPEL]. Bordering the house are plants in the flower beds, and the larn is neatly trimmed. Behind the business, at the leftmost edge of the photograph, you can see a carport with one parked vehicle. The photograph has a white border around the image with scalloped edges on the left and right sides.

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Princetta R. Newman

ca. 1948

Restrictions & Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions; Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.

Place depicted: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America

See more items in: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
Collection title: The Princetta R. Newman Collection of Family Photographs, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Classification: Photographs and Still Images

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Topic: African American; American South; American West; Business; Communities

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