https://202s15.cesaunders.net/files/original/30bcea8cad9ffac6d9d56fdff980e366.jpg b8da63599c4f3a0464e1bef6d9762931 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title Enter the title exactly as printed in the document or image. If there is no title, provide a brief descriptive title enclosed in square brackets. If the item is an excerpt, follow the title with "excerpt" in square brackets. See fields guide for more information. Praise house at Sapelo Creator Enter the name of the author or other creator of the document or image exactly as (s)he is identified in the document. If no author is specified there, see fields guide. Muriel Barrow Bell & Malcom Bell Date The date the document or image was originally published or created, in YYYY-MM-DD format (see fields guide for further details) Photographed: 1939 Printed: 1991 Description Describe key features of the primary source and how they help to answer the research question at hand (usually the significance of a space or place to a text and/or its author or readers) The building in this photo is of a praise house in Georgia in 1939, around the time of The Color Purple’s time period. Praise houses were typically one-room buildings, no more than 10 by 15 feet wide. This building has no more than four walls, a roof, and a bell outside on the steps leading up to the door. There is a good chance that the “church” that was referred to in Georgia, was similar to this praise house in Sapelo. African Americans typically gathered in buildings such as these for worship and religious services. The most interesting piece about this is the misshapen boards. It truly shows the poverty of the south during this time period, particularly in any buildings owned by the African American population. We know that Celie and her family are very poor, uneducated African Americans, and this would have been the type of building that she would have spent her time in. Many of the other places that she spent time in: school buildings, houses, shacks, would have also resembled this structure. Contributor The name of the person who obtained, uploaded, and described the item. Please use the same form of your name throughout the site. anonymized1 Source* Provide an MLA-style "works cited" entry specifying details of both the original publication or distribution of the document, and where you found it (e.g. a library database). See fields guide for details. Bell, Malcom & Bell, Muriel Barrow. Praise house at Sapelo. 1939. 1 Photographic print : gelatin silver ; 40.5 x 50.3 cm (board). Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Rights Please copy and paste the most appropriate of the three boilerplate statements provided in the fields guide. Original document identified in the originating depository (see “source” field) as free of publication restrictions. For further information, please see the “about” page.