About This Item

  • Title[St. John the Baptist Church]
  • Call NumberCHUR_0805
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryInterior, St. John the Baptist Church, Willoughby Avenue and Lewis Avenue, with two sections of pews (one filled, one nearly empty), chancel with choir members and man wearing clerical attire, altar with several floral bouquets, four life-size angels, and crucifix, suspended altar lamp, canopy, four painted portraits behind altar, smaller altar on right, pulpit on left, and three suspended lights in top right.
  • Date1940
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso; supplied partially by cataloger.
  • SubjectSt. John the Baptist Church ; Catholic churches [lctgm] ; Religious services [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.