These mountain people of the Holiness Faith have built what they call a brush tabernacle. The location is in a place called Slabtown, on the Holston River, Smyth County, Virginia and the preacher, the pale, earnest looking fellow between the two trees, with glasses on, is Roy W. Reading, a Holiness preacher.

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These mountain people of the Holiness Faith have built what they call a brush tabernacle. The location is in a place called Slabtown, on the Holston River, Smyth County, Virginia and the preacher, the pale, earnest looking fellow between the two trees, with glasses on, is Roy W. Reading, a Holiness preacher.

Artist Charles E. Greear

Title These mountain people of the Holiness Faith have built what they call a brush tabernacle. The location is in a place called Slabtown, on the Holston River, Smyth County, Virginia and the preacher, the pale, earnest looking fellow between the two trees, with glasses on, is Roy W. Reading, a Holiness preacher.

Date Unknown

Medium Gelatin silver print

Dimensions Image: 6 15/16 × 9 3/8 in. (17.7 × 23.8 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.3 cm)

Credit Line Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 79.200.XX.34.1

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"These mountain people of the Holiness Faith have built what they call a brush tabernacle. The location is in a place called Slabtown, on the Holston River, Smyth County, Virginia and the preacher, the pale, earnest looking fellow between the two trees, with glasses on, is Roy W. Reading, a Holiness preacher. | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=79.200.XX.34.1