Funeral-home advertising church fan

CTL-E-1337 · Work · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Object biography (11 documented links). Full chain in object-biographies.json.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-077; source research type(s): object. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/54314/funeral-fan-featuring-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-john-a (primary source)
https://digital.mtsu.edu/digital/api/collection/aamcd/id/35/download
https://beforetimes.shop/ephemera/vintage-spriggs-watson-funeral-home-folding-fan-mahalia-jackson-image-pittsburgh/

Record CTL-E-1337 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 3 sources (1 primary) · CTL research: LIFE-001.
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