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The History of God
FIELD No. 8046
Visual depiction of Father Divine

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Vol. V · Deified Humans

Father Divine

African American religious leader who declared himself God on earth in Depression-era America

feeding thousands at heavenly banquets while followers called him the living Lord

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This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how this culture has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.