About This Item

  • Call NumberGREGG_0023
  • TitleGregg Chapel
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (GREGG 0006), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two posed views, in different sizes, of a large group of Italian American children sitting or standing in front of Chiesa Evangelica Italiana. It is assumed that the children pictured are attending a day vacation center connected to the Gregg Chapel, located at 190 4th Avenue, which was the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church's mission to the Italians of Gowanus in the early years of the 20th century. The images are not dated.
  • Date[191-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteTitle from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectDay care centers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Italian American children -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Park Slope (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsGregg Chapel 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: Gregg Chapel Photographs