About This Item

  • Call NumberCHUR_0003
  • TitleGubernatorial congratulations
  • SummaryGovernor Thomas E. Dewey congratulates three Black pastors, shaking hands with Thomas J. Goodall. Caption: "Gubernatorial congratulations--Governor Thomas E. Dewey offers his best wishes to the National Baptist Congress prior to the opening of the National Baptist Convention here June 21 to 28. Left to right are larry J. Foster, civic and fraternal leader; the Governor; Dr. Thomas J. Goodall, pastor of the Bethany Baptist Church and general chairman of the entertainment committee, and Dr. O. Clay Maxwell, vice chairman of the National Baptist Congress and past pastor of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church, Manhattan."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: Date stamped: Jun[e] 12, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorHawkins, Herbert ; Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBaptist church buildings [lctgm] ; Blacks ; Governors -- New York (State) ; Meetings [lctgm] ; Handshaking [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • 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.