[Exterior view of Trinity Church]
Photograph
[Exterior view of Trinity Church]
From the album [Snapshots from travels in the United States and Canada]
ca. 1950
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 3 15/16 × 2 3/4 in. (10 × 7 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0069b
Inscriptions Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: The rear of the Trinity Church with chapel on the left, New York City. Taken by someone and the print found. The front is in downtown Broadway at the head of Wall Street. The terrain is very hilly at this point. All buildings front on Broadway and open on the rear a block lower on Trinity Place which later becomes Church Street. "The Curb" was changed to The American Stock Exchange about 1953 and faces Trinity Place form the west side almost back of Trinity Church. Annually during the Christmas season there are in the second floor windows, 2nd & above, always the same decorations in the red and green electric bulbs: straight line Christmas trees and "Merry Christmas". At New Years it is changed to "Happy New Year". (trees removed. I, (Mrs. A. Thomas Nelson) worked in Goodbody's (Goodbody & Co.) brokerage office. It is the main office with about 50 branches. I was handling new accounts in Accounts Records and eventually five other jobs, with training for still others "should there be a slack season in one!" All records of all offices were kept in this office. Brokerage is hard fast work. There are twin buildings on the uptown or north side of Trinity church, one of which shows directly to the left in this print and on the margin. (The apparently twin buildings across Broadway is one building.) Goodbody & Co. occupied 3 floors in the second building from Trinity and for more space needed, 1 1/2 floors in the twin building which partly shows on the margin of print, next to Trinity Church. It was at Trinity Church that (A.T.), A. Thomas Nelson, (husband) and I had a perfect New Year's evening. Often on the radio we had listened to the bells of Trinity start ringing at midnight on New Years eve, to be followed at hourly intervals by other bells ringing in the New Year across the country. This one New Years about 1953, when A.T. had come to New York for the holliday season and to help me get well with the doctor there as ours in Philadelphia was gone, I wanted him to have a wonderful holliday season for the usual 17 days, - coming on Friday night, remaining 2 weeks and returnhing the next Tuesday so that Sunday would not be spoiled. On this New Years eve, (1953) we went early to 42nd Steret to hear the noise which would be at it's peak at midnight. Then we took the BMT subway to Trinity Church for the New Year's service at 11:00 Benjamin Priest who's turn it was for N.Ys. gave a fine sermon and they always planned that prayer should be going on at the entrance of the New Year, the service closing about 12:05 A.M.
I had been there on one other New Year's even when in New York.
I had been there on one other New Year's even when in New York.
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