Object Details
- Description
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- There are no inscriptions on the front of the print. An inscription on the back is only a vertical drawn line at the center.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Frank Espada, Puerto Rican, 1930 - 2014
- Subject of
- Sister Teresa
- Date
- 1964
- Credit Line
- 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
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 7 × 10 in. (17.8 × 25.4 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
