Series 13: Photographs., circa 1870s-1958, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
The Photographs series contains photographs from two separate photo accessions related to the Church. Most of the folders in this series contain images that were originally part of the First Unitarian Congregational Society records. These photos were initially removed from the collection and entered into the library's image database under a V1989.20 accession number. The photos include church buildings, like Willow Place Chapel and the Third Unitarian Congregation's Unity Church, and church activities such as a picnic, fairs, plays, and some minstrel shows. Also included are photos of ministers from the First, Second, and Third Unitarian Congregations including John Lathrop, John White Chadwick, Alfred P. Putnam and Stephen H. Camp. The last folder in the series contains photos from a later accession, V1990.46, and consists of four print reproductions of photographs of Willow Place Chapel, Columbia House, and the school at the chapel.
Item level description and digital versions of images from the collection are available for searching via the image database in the library.
Arrangement
The photographs are arranged according to their digital Object ID # in PastPerfect.
John Lathrop, Parishioners, circa 1910-1958, inclusive
Chapel and Church, Picnic, Parishioners, Reverend Hewlett, and John Manning, circa 1890s-1940s, inclusive
Parishioners, Picnic, circa 1890s-1938, inclusive
Ministers (Chadwick, Lathrop, Putnam, Camp), Unity Church, Unity Chapel, Unity Sunday School, circa 1870s-1930s, inclusive
Windows, for Christian Register article, circa 1950, inclusive
Willow Place Chapel and Willow Place Chapel Sewing School, circa 1890s, inclusive
Columbia House Children, 1935, inclusive
Minstrel Shows, 1943, 1945, inclusive
Christmas Mystery Play, Streets of Wonderland Pageant, 1913, 1921, inclusive
Columbia House Player's Club and Columbia House Summer Girl Minstrels, 1919, inclusive
Lathrop Photo Album, circa 1890s-1910s, inclusive
Church of the Saviour interior illustration, circa 1919, inclusive
Bible Study Prints, circa 1920s, inclusive
Willow Place Chapel, Kindergarten, Columbia House Fair, circa 1900, 1917, inclusive
Christening Font, Unity Church, Third Unitarian Congregational, circa 1870-1900, inclusive
Creator
Angel of Light/Immortality mosaic by Louis C. Tiffany
Scope and Contents
This black and white photograph depicts a church sanctuary which contains the Angel of Light mosaic by Louis C. Tiffany. It is not clear which church is pictured as it does not seem to be the mosaic's current home at the Unitarian Congregational Society sanctuary in Brooklyn Heights.
Historical note
The mosaic in this picture was originally designed in 1915 for the Unitarian Church of the Messiah in Manhattan. In 1919, that building suffered a fire and the mosaic was placed in storage. In 1935, it was purchased by First Unitarian. The mosaic had been commissioned by Julita A. Jones Parker to memorialize her husband James. She had Tiffany Studios install the mosaic in the First Unitarian Congregational Society sanctuary in Brooklyn Heights and it was rededicated as the Angel of Immortality.
