About This Item

  • Call NumberCHUR_0935
  • TitleBlames world's evils on irreligion
  • SummaryTwo men wearing clerical attire and two women wearing hats standing; one woman hands gavel to the other. Caption: "Blames world's evils on irreligion--At 11th annual convention of Brooklyn Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, in Columbus Club, 1 Prospect Park West, Mrs. Robert B. Sasseen, outgoing president, left, passes on gavel symbolic of office to successor, Mrs. Gerald Rigney, while guest speaker, Englich Benedictine Dom Alfred Graham, and Monsignor J. Jerome Reddy, spiritual director of council, right, look on."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: May 18, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Diocesan Council of Catholic Women ; Catholic Church -- Societies, etc
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (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.
  • FolderFolder: Churches: Organizations: Brooklyn Diocesan Council of Catholic Women