About This Item

  • TitleTrowel service
  • Call NumberCHUR_0031
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryEight Black men wearing suits; six are wearing Masonic aprons, five are wearing Masonic medallions; pastor in suit presents trowel to Masonic grand master wearing top hat and Masonic regalia. Caption: "Trowel service--Present at cornerstone laying ceremonies afor new Mount Sinai Baptist Church, 109 Marion St., are, from left to right, Nat Amchan, borough attorney, the Rev. Paul Earl Jones, pastor, presenting trowel to Arthur T. Giddings, grand master of Grand Hall Lodge, F. and A. M. In top row are members of Masonic lodge. Amchan, guest speaker, hit discrimination in housing."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 2, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; caption stamped: Sep[t] 5, 1952. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMount Sinai Baptist Church ; Freemasons ; Baptist church buildings [lctgm] ; Blacks ; Cornerstone laying
  • 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.