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| Title | Juanita, Eleanor, and E. Martin Lewis, Seattle, ca. 1930 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1928 |
| Caption | Eldred Martin Lewis was born in Barbados in 1887 and took a teacher training course there. He later moved to Panama, where he taught for the U.S. government in schools in the Canal Zone. He then came to the United States, where he attended Temple University and Lincoln University. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Seattle and served as minister of Grace Presbyterian Church from 1922 to 1929. He later led churches in New Jersey and New York. He and his wife Juanita had one daughter, Eleanor. He died on August 21, 1977. |
| Notes | Caption on mount: All good wishes for Christmas and the New Year.
Caption taken from BHS records. |
| Subjects | Families--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Personal Names | Russell, Juanita Carter Lewis Gentry
Hill, Eleanor Lewis
Lewis, E. Martin |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Black Heritage Society Collection |
| Image Number | 2001.16.2.05 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or inquire about permissions, contact: TheBoard@blackheritagewa.org. Please cite the Image Number. |
| Repository | The Black Heritage Society of Washington State, Inc. |
| Physical Description | 1 photographic print: b&w; 6 x 4 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 400 ppi TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
