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Tis the season to get your Halloween costumes ready! Need inspiration? Perhaps this haunting Photo of the Week can assist. Here we have six children dressed as what appear to be bears, bunnies, and…perhaps baby birds? Shrubbery? Stumps? Whatever they are, we hope they inspire you.
This image is believed to have been taken during the 1910s at the Gregg Chapel at 190 4th Avenue. The chapel was established by the Young People’s Association of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church to serve Gowanus’s growing Italian immigrant community. To learn more about the chapel, check out this Brooklynology blog post, the fully digitized Gregg Chapel photographs, and the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church records.
Interested in seeing more photos from CBH’s collections? Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images, or the digital collections portal at Brooklyn Public Library. We welcome appointments to research our entire collection of images, archives, maps, and special collections. Our reference staff is available to help with your research! You can reach us at cbhreference@bklynlibrary.org.
This blog post reflects the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Brooklyn Public Library.
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