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Description
V1p141a In PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. I, page 141 top. This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco." Caption written under photo: "El. Emanuel Baptist Church, Bartlett Street between 22nd and 23rd St." View of bottom half of front of large wooden church. Peaked roof over entrance. Wooden sidewalk with two streetlights flanking entrance of church. Text written under photo: "It was in the belfry of this place that the nude body's [sic] of Blanch LaMont [Blanche Lamont] and Minnie Williams were found. These girls were both members of the congergation [sic]. They had been keeping company with Theodore Durant [Durrant] who by engagement met them in the church and murdered them hiding their bodies. Durant was tried for this crime convicted and hung."
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photoprint ; 4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001380661CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-3918
Subject
Churches--California--San Francisco San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints
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