About This Item

  • Call NumberCHUR_0663
  • TitleOur Lady of Refuge
  • SummaryFacade of Our Lady of Refuge, Ocean Avenue and Foster Avenue, under construction, with framwork, building materials, tree in foreground, and many residential buildings in right background. Sign on shed-like building in lower left: "The new church of Our Lady of Refuge, Henry V. Murphy, architect, 208 Livingston St., Brooklyn; Walter Kidde Constructors Incorporated, Engineers and builders, 140 Cedar St., New York City."
  • Date1933
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On recto: "Eagle" printed in black ink in lower right. On verso: date inscribed: Nov. 17/33; "Eagle photo." Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorMurphy, Henry V.
  • SubjectOur Lady of Refuge Church ; Building [lctgm] ; Catholic church buildings [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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.