About This Item

  • Call NumberCHUR_0092
  • TitleHarry Roseland
  • SummaryHarry Roseland holding easel and paintbrush, stands to the right of his large painting of Henry Ward Beecher with left hand raised and right hand on the head of a nine-year-old enslaved child, Sally Maria Diggs, also known as "Pink." Reverend Beecher held an auction at Plymouth Church, 75 Hicks Street, to secure Sally's freedom in 1860. Sally's name in later life was Rose Ward Hunt.
  • Date1932
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: May 22/32; Eagle photo stamp. On verso: "Harry Roseland beside his picture of Henry Ward Beecher & Pinky."
  • CreatorBrooklyn daily eagle
  • SubjectBeecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 ; Plymouth Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) ; Congregational churches ; Painting [lctgm] ; Portraits ; Enslaved children ; Enslaved persons--Emancipation
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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: Congregational: Plymouth: Slaves