Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 350

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
"SWEET DADDY GRACE" (RELIGION.) GRACE, C.M. "SWEET DADDY." House of Prayer, 5. 15. 1927. 3rd Great Baptismal Service of Bishop C.M. Grace, Charlotte, N.C. Large panoramic photograph, 8x33 inches, sepia toned; some stains and dark areas to the blank margins. Charlotte, N.C.: Carolino Studio, 1927
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Charles "Sweet Daddy Grace" (1884-1960) was one of the most successful black evangelists of the 20th century. Born in the Cape Verde islands, Grace emigrated to the U.S. in 1903. He founded the United House of Prayer in 1919 in Wareham, Massachusetts, but his real success came after the first of his enormous, mass baptisms in Charlotte, N. C. in 1925. The present photo shows one of these baptisms at which thousands attended outdoor services.