Cornerstone ceremony at Baptist Temple Church, Frankstown Avenue, Homewood

ca. 1940-1950

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Cornerstone ceremony at Baptist Temple Church, Frankstown Avenue, Homewood
  • Title
  • Cornerstone ceremony at Baptist Temple Church, Frankstown Avenue, Homewood
  • Creator
  • Harris, Charles Teenie
  • Date
  • ca. 1940-1950
  • Identifier
  • 1996.69.115
  • Source Identifier
  • Carnegie Museum of Art 1996.69.115
  • Description
  • The Baptist Temple Church, founded in the 1920s, is located at 7409 Frankstown Avenue in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh. Here, a man in a dark suit stands beneath a sign reading Baptist Temple Church, The Rev. J. A. Williams, Pastor." He is holding a stone plaque in one hand and a hammer? in the other. A different Harris image of the ceremony depicts the plaque with the date 1945. Several children watch in the foreground, and an older woman in skirt and jacket watches in the background."
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Baptist Temple Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Homewood (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Girls--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Church buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Men--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Boys--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Cornerstones--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Teenie Harris Photograph Collection, 1920-1970
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Collection
  • Teenie Harris Photographs
  • Rights Information
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  • Rights Holder
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh