About This Item

  • Call NumberPARK_0314
  • Title[Todd Memorial plaque]
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PARK 0315, PARK 0316), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three close-up views, in two different sizes, of the Todd Memorial plaque in Prospect Park listing names of Kings County soldiers who died during World War 1. 0314 inscription, "They gave their lives for liberty and universal peace; honor, duty, country." 0316 inscription: "Presented by William H. Todd and accepted for the City of New York by Mayor John E. Hylan and John H. Harman, Commissioner of Parks, A.D. MCMXXI."
  • Date[1921?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0314: 8 x 10 in. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • SubjectMemorials -- New York (State) -- New York ; Plaques -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; World War, 1914-1918 -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Parks: Prospect Park: Sculpture: Todd Memorial plaque: Honor roll