Image of a certificate issued to Sally Williams from the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; an angel with a trumpet and the Holy Bible flies over three vignettes, including people tormented by snakes in front of a cross with a building being destroyed by flood and fire in the background, a group of Native American Indians seated in a circle in front of tipis with a priest preaching to them, and three African people kneeling and reaching towards the sky with a hut and palm trees in the background. "N Currier's Lith. N.Y."--text, center of image. "to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the sum of Twenty Dollars, is hereby constituted A Member During Life conformably to the Seventh Article of the Constitution. New York, April 14, 1851. E.S. James Chairman. J.B. Edwards Clerk."--text, printed and handwritten in ink, bottom center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 45.24 x 36.51 cm (17 13/16 x 14 3/8 in.)
Africans--Pictorial works Angels--Pictorial works Bible stories--Pictorial works Crosses--Pictorial works Indians of North America--Pictorial works Priests--Pictorial works Lithographs--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Religion Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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