About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0716
  • TitleTreading in historic spot
  • SummaryCaption: "Treading in historic spot--Mayor O'Dwyer, the guest of Archbishop Pattini, primate of the West Indies, visits the Cathedral of Santa Domingo, where the bones of Christopher Columbus are interred. With the mayor and the archbishop is Dr. J. M. Troncoso, chairman of the Columbus Memorial Lighthouse Committee which is building a lighthouse and museum to receive the bones of Columbus." O'Dwyer served a mayor of New York City from 1946 to 1950.
  • Date1948
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 28, 1948. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectO'Dwyer, William, 1890-1964 ; Mayors -- 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: Portraits: O'Dwyer, William: Vacations