<I>Sister Teresa at Pentecostal Street Service</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1964
name: label: Photograph by
content: Frank Espada, Puerto Rican, 1930 - 2014
label: Subject of
content: Sister Teresa
notes: label: Description
content: A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a crowd on the street listening to a Pentecostal service directly in front of a building with the house number [364]. At the center of the image and the crowd is a young woman, Sister Teresa, at a podium with a microphone held on her proper left hand and her proper right hand gesturing the crowd. She is wearing a white shirt with a collar and a vertically stripped blazer. The podium top is covered in a white lace, crochet-like table runner with books on top. Hanging in front of the podium is a fabric banner with [2 º… 2:22] at the top.
label: Description
content: At the center of the banner is [SOCIEDAD DE JOVENES / EMBAJADORES DE …]. Below it is a large, circular emblem reading [CRISTO PARA TODOS / TODOS PARA CRISTO]. Flanked on either side of the stage are two flags; on the left is the United States flag, on the right is an unknown flag.
label: Description
content: Behind Sister Teresa on the stage are people with musical instruments, a group of youth dressed similarly like a choir, and a family leaning out of the building’s window. There are people seated at the entrance of the building’s doorway, with people also standing in front of the stage and on the sides.
label: Description
content: There are no inscriptions on the front of the print. An inscription on the back is only a vertical drawn line at the center.
place: label: Place depicted
content: East New York, New York City, Kings County, New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Cultural Place
content: Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Pentecostal
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Preaching
label: Topic
content: Religion
label: Topic
content: Urban life
label: Topic
content: Worship services
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: The Puerto Rican Diaspora Documentary Project
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.53.17
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Estate of Frank Espada
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 7 × 10 in. (17.8 × 25.4 cm)