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  • TitleSecond tabernacle
  • Call NumberCHUR_0525
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwo pen and ink renderings (drawings): facade of second Brooklyn Tabernacle and pipe organ. Caption: "Second tabernacle--H. C. Roth of 137 Warner Ave., 87-year -old retired newspaper artist, obliges with a sketch of the second Brooklyn Tabernacle which the famous Rev. DeWitt Talmage built on Schermerhorn St. near 3rd Ave. The first burned down on Dec. 2, 1872. This structure, erected on the ruins of the first, burned on Oct. 27, 1889. The third tabernacle, at Clinton and Greene Aves., was also destroyed by fire, May 13, 1894."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteOn recto left: "H. C. Roth, 1952"; also: under drawing of church: "Rev. T. Dewitt Talmadge, pastor," and under drawing of organ: "Pulpit & organ." On verso: date stamped: Nov. 17, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Tabernacle, Second ; Baptist churches [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBoerum Hill (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.