About This Item

  • Call NumberCHUR_0694
  • TitleToward new sacred crowns
  • SummaryGirl wearing party dress with banner ("Replace the crowns!") holding wicker basket; inside basket: small white box containing small piece of jewelry. Caption: "Toward new sacred crowns--Three-year-old June Rose Cipriano starts fund-raising campaign on steps of Regina Pacis Votive Shrine, 65th St. and 12th Ave., to replace jeweled crowns stolen from sacred mural in $100,000 theft last week."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 6, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRegina Pacis Votive Shrine ; Baskets ; Catholic church buildings [lctgm] ; Fund raising
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBensonhurst (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.