Object Details
Photograph by
Milton Williams, American, born 1940
Subject of
Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, American, 1910 - 1985
Caption
Attorney, author, scholar, and Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray, the first black female Episcopal Church deacon. In January of 1977, she was ordained as the first black female Episcopal priest. She is pictured here in her study in her Arlington, Virginia apartment. December 22, 1976.
Milton Williams, Moments in Time, 1973-1993 (Nashville: James C. Winston Publishing Co., 1996), 110.
Description
A black-and-white photograph of the Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray sitting at a typewriter by a desk crowded with papers. The photograph is stamped and inscribed on the back.
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Milton Williams Archives
Date
December 21, 1977
Object number
2011.15.126
Restrictions & Rights
© Milton Williams
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Type
gelatin silver prints
portraits
Medium
silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions
H x W (Image): 7 1/4 × 9 9/16 in. (18.4 × 24.3 cm)
H x W (Sheet): 7 15/16 × 10 3/16 in. (20.2 × 25.9 cm)
Place depicted
Arlington County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
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Classification
Photographs and Still Images
Data Source
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Topic
African American
Civil Rights
Episcopalian
Feminism
Local and regional
Photography
Religion
Social reform
Women
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmaahc_2011.15.126