Chromogenic print of the outside of Jack's Memory Chapel
Object Details
- Description
- A color photograph of Jack's Memory Chapel at 821 E 36th Street N in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The funeral home is a one-story red brick building with eight (8) double-hung windows, a main entrance door at center left, and a side door at center right. The six (6) windows on the main body of the building are framed by white raised-panel shutters. The two (2) windows at the far right of the photograph do not have shutters, and there are white awnings above the windows. The main entrance door is framed by pilasters and is topped by a swan's neck pediment with a filial between the scrolls. On the side of the building is the business name in large white letters [JACK'S MEMORY CHAPEL, INC.]. In front of the funeral home is a curved, paved driveway. A pickup truck is parked in the driveway at the far right of the photograph, but only a portion of the back end of the truck is visible. The corners of the photograph are rounded.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Princetta R. Newman
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Date
- after 1976
- Object number
- 2014.75.67
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Jack's Memory Chapel, American, founded 1948
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- photographs
- Medium
- dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 3 1/2 × 3 1/4 in. (8.9 × 8.3 cm)
- 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
- Topic
- African American
- American South
- American West
- Business
- Communities
- Funeral customs and rites
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2014.75.67
