About This Item

  • TitleNo half-way measures
  • Call NumberCHUR_0353
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThirteen men and two women in outdoor swimming pool; several other men wearing bathing suits walk on pool side. Caption: "No half-way measures--Baptism, witnesses hold, is not for babies. Complete submersion is called for, as in this view--in which two new Witnesses are already under water." (The location, although not identified, is assumed to be 124 Columbia Heights.).
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: caption stamped: Jul[y] 19, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorGalfas Studios
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectWatchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York ; Baptism [lctgm] ; Jehovah's Witnesses
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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.