Flashback Friday: Giving Thanks At Emmanuel House, Circa 1910

The Thanksgiving holiday has long been an opportunity to teach children — and adults — how to share, and the importance of giving thanks the living in a community.

This image is from 1910 and shows a Sunday School Thanksgiving collection from schoolchildren in Clinton Hill’s Emmanuel House, then located at 131 Steuben Street.

As noted by the Brooklyn Historical Society:

According to the 1897 Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac, “it was maintained by the Young Men’s League of Emmanuel Baptist Church [and] has reading rooms, game rooms, a gymnasium, and bowling alleys for boys; and free sewing school and kindergarten classes for girls.”