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| Title | First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Seattle, March 1990 |
| Photographer | Lawson, Jacqueline |
| Date | 1990 |
| Caption | The First African Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 1522 14th Avenue, is the oldest black church in Seattle and was designated a Seattle landmark in 1984. The A.M.E. denomination was founded in 1816 in Philadelphia by Richard Allen. The Seattle church began in 1886 with the formation of a Sunday School held in various homes under the leadership of Seaborn J. Collins. Four years later it was transformed into a church with charter members I.I. Walker, John T. Gayton, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Roy, Fred Lawrence, and Charles H. Harvey. Reverend Thomas was the first pastor. |
| Subjects | Methodist Episcopal churches--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Black Heritage Society Collection |
| Image Number | 2002.38.2.04 |
| 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; 4 x 6 in. |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
