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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
PH 28 NOV 1998
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
11-28-1998
Format of Original
35mm color negatives
Description
Exterior views of Abyssinian Church (also known as the Abyssinian Meeting House), 75 Newbury Street.
Top image: Exterior view from southeast.
Bottom image: Left to right- Janet Johnson, June McKenzie, Wells Staley-Mays reading the names of the nearly 200 victims from the S.S. Portland disaster (27 November 1898), during a memorial service near the Abyssinian Church. 19 parishioners from the church were aboard the S.S. Portland.
The Abyssinian Church, built in 1828, is Maine's oldest African-American church building, and the third oldest in the United States.
Photos published in the Portland Press Herald, on 28 November 1998
Recommended Citation
"Abyssinian Church, 1998" (1998). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Newspapers (Guy Gannett) Still Film Negatives. 425.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/425
Keywords
Portland, Me., East End, Munjoy Hill, Houses of worship, Churches, African-American community
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