About This Item

  • Call NumberHOSP_0534
  • TitleNavy chapel dedication
  • SummaryCaption: "Navy chapel dedication--The Most Rev. James E. Kearney, Roman Catholic Bishop of Rochester, leading procession to bless the new Catholic chapel yesterday at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital. Assistants at the mass were Lt. Comm. John L. Maxwell, right, and Lt. Comm. Anthony T. Wallace, Catholic chaplains at the hospital and the Brooklyn Navy Receiving Station. Watching are patients Leonard Middleman, in wheelchair, and Gerald Goodman."
  • Date1945
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 9 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteCropped. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectUnited States. Navy -- Officers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Catholic Church -- Bishops -- New York (State) -- New York ; Chapels -- New York (State) -- New York ; Chaplains, Hospital -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospital patients -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York ; Wheelchairs -- 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: Hospitals: Brooklyn Naval Hospital