HERZ 0198 Click for larger image
HERZ 0198 Click for larger image
Title [Baptism at Coney Island] [picture] / Irving I. Herzberg.
Author Herzberg, Irving I., photographer.
Publication [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1970 and 1979?]
Description 1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
paper 8 x 10 in.
Call # HERZ 0198
Series Irving I. Herzberg photograph collection
Irving I. Herzberg photograph collection.
Note Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer's stamp on verso.
Summary Two African American women (one gesticulating, one clasping hands over breast) and three African American men standing in water at Coney Island in baptismal ritual for the Assembly of Jahweh Church; three figures in center wearing white clerical robes; other two in street clothes.
Cite As: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Indexes Folder: 18: Coney Island: Assembly of Jahweh: Baptism.
Local Note Copy 2.
Negative # 2008-11.
Note Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information, please contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/brooklyncollection
Subject Baptism -- New York (State) -- New York.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
Genre Photographic prints.
Gelatin silver prints.
photographic prints.
gelatin silver prints.

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