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Shirley Page collection on St. Paul's Baptist Church
St. Paul's Baptist Church was established in 1890 under Pastor Edward William Johnson (1865-1936), who had organized the first Colored Church of Morristown, New Jersey, and chartered in 1895. It served its primarily African American congregation out of a hall on 11th Street. The church then mov...
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| Collection: | Shirley Page Collection On St. Paul's Baptist Church |
| Collection Number: | 4635 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| 245 | 1 | |a Shirley Page collection on St. Paul's Baptist Church |f circa 1940-2015, undated | |
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| 520 | |a St. Paul's Baptist Church was established in 1890 under Pastor Edward William Johnson (1865-1936), who had organized the first Colored Church of Morristown, New Jersey, and chartered in 1895. It served its primarily African American congregation out of a hall on 11th Street. The church then moved to 8th Street below Girard and finally to a permanent home at 10th and Wallace Street. Shirley A. Page was a member of the church and chaired its history/centennial committee. This collection is primarily comprised of papers, clippings, interviews on tape, events on VHS tapes, church bulletins, notes and background information o the church's past and present pastors, photographs, and other items, including a copy of the church's charter, she collected around the time of the church's centennial in the late 1880s and early 1990s. There is also a copy of Scribe Video's "Precious Places" community history project on DVD (Volume 7, 2015), along with accompanying documentation, that features a piece done on St. Paul's and its E. Luther Cunningham Community Center called "Victory Voices: Visions Anew." | ||
| 610 | 2 | 7 | |a St. Paul's Baptist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) |2 Local Sources |
| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans--Philadelphia (Pa.)--Religious life. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Baptists--Philadelphia (Pa.) | |
| 656 | 0 | |a Philadelphia (Pa.)--Churches. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Page, Shirley A. |e Donor (dnr) | |
| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b Shirley Page Collection On St. Paul's Baptist Church |l 4635 | ||