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James Johnson
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Text on negative sleeve reads: "'James Johnson, better known as Uncle Jimmie,' charter member and first and only sexton to 1893 of St. Mark's AME Church, Milw. From a church pamphlet loaned for copying by Lorraine Ragland, 1977, (great-granddaughter of Ezekiel Gillespie), titled 'The First 35 Years of the St. Mark's AME Church.'"
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Horace W. Dangerfield
Head and shoulders portrait of Horace W. Dangerfield, (b. 1838, d. 1893) Organizer and member of the St. Mark's AME Church, Milw. From a church pamphlet loaned for copying by Lorraine Ragland, Los ...
Portrait of Hon. L.H. Palmer
Quarter-length portrait of Lucian (or Lucien) H. Palmer. Text with negative reads: "Hon. L.H. Palmer, member of the St. Mark's AME Church. He was the first black elected member of the Wisconsin Ass...
Mathilda Hughes
Mathilda Hughes, wife of Louis Hughes. They were charter members of St. Mark's AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Church, and she was the first stewardess of the church.
Ezekiel Gillespie
1850
Black and white copy print of a daguerreotype portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie.
Ezekiel Gillespie
Head and shoulders portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie. Gillespie was born in 1818 and died March 31, 1892. In 1866, Milwaukee's Ezekiel Gillespie successfully sued for the right to vote.
