About This Item

  • TitlePitching in in support
  • Call NumberCHUR_0019
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThree Baptist pastors ; two, holding a check, are Black and wearing suits. the third, wearing clerical attire, observes. Caption: "Pitching in in support--When Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1110 Herkimer St., was damaged by fire, friends rallied to its support. The Rev. Anderson W. Wilson, pastor, center, is shown receiving a check from the Rev. Dr. Gardner C. Taylor, pastor of Concord Baptist Church. At right is the Rev. Robert B. Minnick, pastor of New Brooklyn Baptist Church, which offered its church hall as a meeting place."
  • Date1955
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 4, 1955; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp . Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLambert, Al [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectEbenezer Baptist Church ; Baptist church buildings [lctgm] ; Blacks
  • 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.