About This Item

  • Title[Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church]
  • Call NumberCHUR_0148
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryInterior, Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, Tompkins Avenue and McDonough Street; pews, hymals, podium with lectern, three chairs, pedestal with vase, potted flowering plants, and evergreen trees and branches; in front of podium: rectangular table and two chairs; at left of podium: baptismal font; above podium: pipe organ and pipes, and choir loft with chair and a tall, ornate lamp on each side.
  • Date1939
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped; semicircle cutout in bottom left. On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 6/39.
  • SubjectTompkins Avenue Congregational Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) ; Congregational churches ; Organ pipes ; Pews [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.