About This Item

  • Call NumberCHUR_0948
  • TitleTercentenary poster gets attention
  • SummaryCaption: "Tercentenary poster gets attention--Assemblyman Lewis W. Olliffe, left, chairman of the 300th anniversary banquet committee, displays a Tercentenary of Brooklyn Protestantism poster for the approval of dinner speakers and Republican County Leader John R. Crews, right. Left to right, Assemblyman Olliffe, Bishop William C. Martin of Dallas, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church and president of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U. S. A.; Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, brother of the late Senator Robert A. Taft and chairman of the American Friends of the World Council of Churches, and Mr. Crews."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 23, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E. [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectProtestantism
  • 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: Events: Tercentenary of Brooklyn Protestantism