About This Item

  • Call NumberCHUR_0098
  • TitleStatue of Henry Ward Beecher
  • SummaryStatue of Henry Ward Beecher on pedestal between two columns, with two smaller statues at base of pedestal, right (one woman comforting another) at Plymouth Church, 75 Hicks Street. At left bas-relief sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.
  • Date1927
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 7 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: May 15/27; photographer's stamp. On verso: "Statue and tablet of Henry Ward Beecher on church grounds." Retouched. Title (modified) from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorKunkel, Martin J. [photographer]
  • SubjectBeecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 ; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 ; Plymouth Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) ; Bas-relief [lctgm] ; Congregational churches ; Sculpture ; 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
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Churches: Congregational: Plymouth: Henry Ward Beecher