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1846-05
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GUSN-250706
This certificate contains harmful imagery and language subjugating other cultures, religions, and genders.
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Certificate to Rev. S. B. Swaim for his contribution of "Fifty Dollars From the First Baptist Church Worcester, Mass." making him a Director for Life of the American Tract Society, May 1846. The top half of the certificate has a scene of an angel ministering to people from different cultures. It says underneath the engraving, "And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations."
members
religious (people)
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Protestantism
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1942-09-26
GC002.02.299b
Estate
16 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of the Estate of Miss Elizabeth Swaim, 1942
Worcester (Worcester county, Massachusetts)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Pendletons Lithography (Lithographer)
Swaim, Samuel B. (Samuel Budd), 1809-1865
American Tract Society
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Christian education
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