Planning Urban League dinner

Planning Urban League dinner
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Title: Planning Urban League dinner
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Caption: "Planning Urban League dinner--Putting final touch on arrangements for membership dinner of Brooklyn branch of Urban League of Greater New York, to be held tonight at Hotel St. George, are chairmen of various committees. Lefdt to right, front row, are Oscar Trachtenburg, Maude B.Richardson, general chairman, and Mrs. Melvin Coleman. In the rear are Cecil Foster, left, and Charles Warden." Four of those pictured are African Americans.

Date: 1953
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn Navy Yard (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Hawkins, Herbert.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
Stamped on verso: date: Oct. 5, 1953; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Photo by Herbert Hawkins."
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Clubs
Subject: Urban League of Greater New York.
African Americans
Clubs
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
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: CLUB 0467