About This Item

  • TitlePounds of pennies
  • Call NumberCHUR_0402
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryNun wearing habit holds large scale while five boys and one girl empty bags (of coins) onto scale. Caption: "Pounds of pennies--Sister Elizabeth Cress, parish deaconess of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, 7420 4th Avenue, looks on smilingly as Sunday School kids of the congregation pour their offerings of pennies into a butcher's scale. When a ton of coins have been collected a stained glass window will be purchased as a 45th anniversary present for the Bay Ridge church."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 11 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Mar 6, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectGood Shepherd Lutheran Church ; Lutheran churches [lctgm] ; Sunday schools [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBay Ridge (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.