Awarded Bibles

Awarded Bibles
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Title: Awarded Bibles
Description:

Brooklyn Dodgers Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella receiving Bibles from two men in clerical robes, one white, one black. Caption on verso: "Awarded Bibles: As part of the celebration of the 140th anniversary of the New York Bible Society, Roy Campanella and Jackie Robinson, right, receive the Special Laymen's Award at Bethany Baptist Church, Sumner Ave. and Decauter St., from the Rev. Thomas Goodall, pastor. Watching the presentation is the Rev. Dr. J. Henry Carpenter, executive secretary of the Brooklyn Division of the Protestant Council."

Date: 1949
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: On verso: date stamped: Dec. 5, 1949; "Eagle Staff photo."
Title from inscription on verso.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Brooklyn Dodgers
Subject: Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
Campanella, Roy, 1921-1993.
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
African American baseball players
Baptists
Award presentations
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: DODG 0962