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- Title
- Honorably retired.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: HONORABLY RETIRED #1787 NEW YORK -- Almost a tradition in itself is this old bell standing outside the rectory of St. George’s Protestant Episcopal church here. Made in England, it cost 250 pounds sterling and was presented to the church by Thomas H. Smith in 1818. For many years it hung in the old church in Beekman Street and afterward in the chapel at 14th Street. In 1905 it was removed to its present site after it was reported that it had been cracked by improper ringing. Once asked by the city Fire Department if the bell could be rung in case of fire, the vestry called attention to a by-law of the church directing the sexton “to have the bell rung at all alarms of fire.” Shown inspecting the bell is the rector of St. George’s, the Rev. Elmore M. McKee. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BH-NY-MES-3C-6-O-A-E)
- Creator Name(s)
- Haller, Ben, 1919- (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1946
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., St. George's Episcopal Church (New York, N.Y.), Episcopal Church--Clergy., McKee, Elmore McNeill, 1896-
- Topical Subject(s)
- Clergy--New York (State)--New York., Church bells--New York (State)--New York.
- Geographic subjects
- New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., Manhattan (New York, N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. 1787-A; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_1787-A
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:358625