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ItemID
acaa035
IDEntry
3044
Creator
Hervey Laney
Date
1892
Collection Location
Allegany County, Maryland
Coverage
Allegany County (Md.), 1890-2008
Body
This 1892 photograph depicts an arrest being made at the cornerstone laying ceremony of the Cumberland Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, originally known as the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church. While the man being arrested is white, it appears that the two police officers escorting him away are also white.
Notes
Photograph: Laney's Red Lion Pharmacy, Nos. 22 and 24 N. Centre Street, Cumberland, Md., courtesy of the Cumberland Metropolitan A.M.E. Church
Laney's Red Lion Pharmacy published numerous local historic views during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.