About This Item

  • TitlePlanning Urban League dinner
  • Call NumberCLUB_0467
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Planning Urban League dinner--Putting final touch on arrangements for membership dinner of Brooklyn branch of Urban League of Greater New York, to be held tonight at Hotel St. George, are chairmen of various committees. Lefdt to right, front row, are Oscar Trachtenburg, Maude B.Richardson, general chairman, and Mrs. Melvin Coleman. In the rear are Cecil Foster, left, and Charles Warden." Four of those pictured are African Americans.
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Oct. 5, 1953; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Photo by Herbert Hawkins." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorHawkins, Herbert
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectUrban League of Greater New York ; African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Clubs -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Navy Yard (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.