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ALT Portrait of Lillian Wald by William Valentine Schevill in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

ALT Lillian Wald in a nurse's cap and white blouse.

ALT Tax photo of the Henry Street Settlement, ca. 1939. The organization continues to serve more than 50,000 people annually, operating from 18 sites on the Lower East Side and providing more than 50 programs. Photo credit: NYC Municipal Archives.

ALT The library at Henry Street Settlement, 1910. Photo credit: Lewis Wickes Hines / Library of Congress.

ALT Title page of the pamphlet published by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones refuting claims that the Black community had profited from Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic.

ALT Richard Allen's tomb within Mother Bethel AME Church. Photo credit: Library of Congress.

ALT Bishops of the AME Church. Richard Allen is depicted in the center.

ALT Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia, 1967.

ALT St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. This photo appears to have been taken sometime in the 1970s. Photo credit: Library of Congress.

ALT Allen paid for his freedom in Continental Currency, like this example that was issued in Delaware. By 1780, Continental currency had experienced severe hyperinflation, having depreciated to roughly 1/40th of its face value. $2,000 in Continental Currency would be worth about $1,200 today's currency. An equivalent value in gold, however, would be worth more than $6,400.

ALT Portrait of Bishop Richard Allen. Image credit: OnlineAthens.