About This Item

  • Title[Boy Scouts at veterans' graves]
  • Call NumberHOLI_0421
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOLI 0420), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two images of Boy Scouts tending veterans' headstones in Cypress Hills Cemetery; 0420 (10 x 8 in.) shows two Scouts at headstone, one standing with bundle of American flags, the other adjusting flag on ground; 0421 (8 x 10 in.) shows nine Scouts, each on one knee, tending individual headstones with flags.
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. On versos: date inscribed: 1947.
  • 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.