Museum object · Sacred and Ceremonial Objects
Stained glass rosette shard from the 16th Street Baptist Church
ca. 1963
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A stained glass rosette shaped shard (a) from the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The piece consists a cream diamond-shaped center, surrounded by rings of blue, ochre, and purple colored glass within a lead frame. Two pieces of the lead frame (b, c) are not connected to the rosette shaped stained glass and most of the top right segment of the ochre colored glass is missing.
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Catalog reference: 2013.138abc
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