About This Item

  • TitleWe Here Dedicate
  • Call NumberHOLI_0424
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwo Boy Scouts in cemetery, one standing with bundle of flags at right, the other crouching to place flag against headstone at left. Caption on verso: "We Here Dedicate: Graves of unknown soldiers are decorated by Harry Lerch (left) and Arthur Petersen, two of 350 Scouts of Bushwick-Arlington District, who placed flags on 18,000 graves of U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines at National Cemetery, Cypress Hills, in honor of Memorial Day."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: May 29, 1945. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCypress Hills Cemetery (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) ; Memorial Day -- New York (State) -- New York ; Boy Scouts -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cemeteries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Cypress Hills (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.