About This Item

  • TitleBoro's first TV service
  • Call NumberCHUR_0557
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThree men (one wearing clerical attire, one wearing headphones and holding ducument) and one woman (wearing hat and holding document) standing in radio station; TV camera is labeled: NBC, WNBT." Caption: "Boro's first TV service--the Rev. Milton A. Galamison of Siloam Presbyterian Church, Jefferson and Marcy Aves., and associate producer Doris Ann listen to instructions from director Martin Hood, as Wesley Goodman, right, of the National Council of Churches of Christ looks on, just before first televised service from Brooklyn church goes on." (Church formerly known as Central Presbyterian Church.).
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 14, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorFox, Dan [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSiloam Presbyterian Church ; Presbyterian church buildings [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.