About This Item

  • TitleIn a circle
  • Call NumberCHUR_0907
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySix women (four wearing hats) sitting in a circle sewing; behind women is large mural with several figures of adults and children. Caption: "In a circle--Before an inspirational mural, women of the Unitarian Church of the Saviour, at Pierrepont [St. and] Monroe Place, gather in the Frances White room on Monday afternoons to sew to war relief. ...Mrs. D. B. Lane, Mrs. Tasker Howard, Mrs. Walter Newhouse, Mrs. Thurm[a]n Givan, Mrs. Victor Scottron, [Mrs. Har?]old Speh and Miss Eva Coe."
  • Date1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped: undeterminable sections of image missing. On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 12/41. Retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFirst Unitarian Church of Brooklyn (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) ; Sewing ; Unitarians
  • 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.