St. James AME Church Helena, Montana Concert-Recital
St. James AME Church Helena, Montana Concert-Recital Broadside
Concert-Recital at St. James A.M.E. Church, Friday Evening, July 20th, Frank A. Walton of Billings, Montana. Billings: Billings Gazette, n.d., [1923?]. Printed broadside or handbill. 6 x 12 in. (152 x 304 mm).
An advertisement for a concert-recital by a young man named Frank A. Walton of Billings playing for the Church Fund of St. James African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Helena. Founded in 1889, St. James AME was one of the earliest AME churches in the Pacific Northwest. At the turn of the 20th century, Helena was home to a thriving African-American population. As William Lang noted in his article “Tempest on Clore Street: Race & Politics in Helena, MT 1906,” Helena’s black community’s “social center was the St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church at Fifth and Hoback Streets.”
Condition Report: Two horizontal creases, tiny chips to edges, some creasing, even toning.
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St. James AME Church Helena, Montana Concert-Recital Broadside
Concert-Recital at St. James A.M.E. Church, Friday Evening, July 20th, Frank A. Walton of Billings, Montana. Billings: Billings Gazette, n.d., [1923?]. Printed broadside or handbill. 6 x 12 in. (152 x 304 mm).
An advertisement for a concert-recital by a young man named Frank A. Walton of Billings playing for the Church Fund of St. James African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Helena. Founded in 1889, St. James AME was one of the earliest AME churches in the Pacific Northwest. At the turn of the 20th century, Helena was home to a thriving African-American population. As William Lang noted in his article “Tempest on Clore Street: Race & Politics in Helena, MT 1906,” Helena’s black community’s “social center was the St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church at Fifth and Hoback Streets.”
Condition Report: Two horizontal creases, tiny chips to edges, some creasing, even toning.
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