Museum object · communion sets
Altar cloths of white linen in Chaplain Kit of Army Chaplain Louis J. Beasley
1939-1944
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.
Altar cloths made of white plain woven linen. The rectangular cloths have a wide hemmed edge that is turned to the back and machine stitched. Both altar cloths .1 and .2 are the same.
- Catalog date
- 1939-1944
- Recorded places
- United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Catholicism; Men; Military; Religion; Segregation; Worship services
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: 2013.205.1.12.1-.2
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection