About This Item

  • Call NumberCHUR_0659
  • TitlePalms of peace
  • SummaryMan (standing) wearing clerical attire looks at six parishioners (one man, three women, one boy, one girl) and hands palms to two of the women; four other parishioners (one standing, three sitting) in right background. Caption: "Palms of peace--the Rev. Daniel A. Gilroy of Our Lady of Refuge R. C. Church, Ocean and Foster Aves., presents palms to parishioners in Palm Sunday rite ushering in Holy Week, the most sacred period in the Christian calendar. Special services are planned in all of the borough's churches during holy Week."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Mar. 30, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorFox, Dan [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectOur Lady of Refuge Church ; Catholic church buildings [lctgm] ; Palm Sunday
  • 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.