About This Item

  • Call NumberCHUR_0363
  • TitlePatient Witnesses
  • SummaryCrowd lined up on sidewalks separated by street in commercial/residential area; also, parked and moving automobiles, telephone poles and lines, trolley tracks, trolley station entrance, John's Wines-Liquors, Union Bar, and policeman directing traffic in center foreground. Caption: "Patient Witnesses--Part of 15-block line of Jehovah's Witnesses as estimated 20,000 of them invaded downtown area today to see new Brooklyn printing plant of Watchtower Bible and Tract Society at Sands and Adams Sts. About 120,000 witnesses have been in the city for convention at Yankee Stadium."
  • Date1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Aug 7, 1950. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectWatchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York ; Jehovah's Witnesses ; Queues
  • 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.
  • FolderFolder: Churches: Jehovah's Witnesses: Watchtower Bible & Tract Society: Printing Press