About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0737
  • TitleMayor's reception committee
  • SummaryCaption: "Mayor's reception committee--On the official reception committee to greet Mayor Impellitteri at tonight's degree ceremony of Baron DeKalb Council K. of C. [in Bay Ridge], are: standing, left to right, Joseph S. Profaci, chairman, [Brooklyn businessman,] whose alleged underworld connections are being investigated by senate probers; Monsignor Francis P. Barilla, Magistrate Anthony E. Maglio and Joseph J. Madden, Democratic leader of Bay Ridge. Seated, left to right, Vincent P. Rayola, district attorney, Salvator J. Milazza, grand knight of Archbishop John Hughes Council, Frank J. Gottilly, grand knight of Baron DeKalb Council, and State Senator Mario MeOptatis."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 26, 1951; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorAda Art Studios
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectProfaci, Joseph, 1896-1962 ; Criminals -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • 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: Portraits: Profaci, Joseph S