About This Item

  • Call NumberCHUR_0095
  • TitleHenry Ward Beecher
  • SummaryStatue of Beecher on pedestal between two columns, with two smaller statues at base of pedestal, right (one woman comforting another). Caption: "At right is the statue of Dr. Henry Ward Beecher at historic Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, Orange and Hicks Sts., [75 Hicks Street] who electrified the country on Feb. 15, 1860, by offering a slave girl for sale from the church pulpit."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: Jan. 28, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBeecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 ; Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) ; Congregational churches ; Statues
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Churches: Congregational: Plymouth: Henry Ward Beecher