About This Item

  • Call NumberCHUR_0857
  • TitleAid for Trinidad parish
  • SummaryMan in suit presenting envelope to priest in unknown location (presumably Brooklyn) as other smiling adults, mostly African American, look on. Caption: "Aid for Trinidad Parish: The Rev. Max E. Murphy, center, receives funds from the committee members of Brooklyn's American Aide for St. Philip and James R. C. Church in Chaguanas, Trinidad, of which he is pastor. . . . Left to right are Mrs. James Sullivan, Mrs. James Watkins, James Sullivan, Mrs. Fred Mayo, Father Murphy, Arthur Godard, Fred Mayom [sic], Mrs. Clarence Wilson, Magistrate Clarence Wilson, chairman of the group; Mrs. Helen DeForest Preston and Douglas James."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Sep. 22, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBing Studio
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCatholic Church -- Clergy -- New York (State) -- New York ; Charitable giving -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Non-Brooklyn