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  • TitleWomen's Service League community night
  • Call NumberCHUR_0323
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThree Black women wearing dress clothes and two Black men (one wearing suit, one wearing clerical attire) standing in parish house room. Caption: "Women's Service League community night--Participants in the dedication celebration of St. Philip's P. E. Church newly-renovated parish house smile approvingly as the league's president, Mrs. Jewel McCoy, center, and the Rev. John M. Coleman, pastor of St. Philip's, second from right, discuss future plans for the building. with them are, left, Assemblyman Bertram L. Baker and Dr. Deborah Partridge, member of Queens College faculty, and, extreme right, Mrs. Thelma Robinson, program chairman. The affair was held in the parish house, 265 Decatur St."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 30, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBing Studio
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSt. Philip's Episcopal Church ; Anglican church buildings ; Blacks ; Parish houses ; Women -- Societies and clubs
  • 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.