About This Item

  • Call NumberHOLI_0450
  • TitleBrooklyn remembers
  • SummaryColor guard marching through memorial arch at Grand Army Plaza, seen from rear of arch; free-standing column at entrance to Prospect Park visible through arch; high-rise apartment building on Union Street in right background. Caption on verso: "Brooklyn Remembers: American Legion Color Guard passes under Memorial Arch of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Grand Army Plaza yesterday as 150,000 lined the three-mile route of the march from Rochester Ave. and Eastern Parkway to the Plaza. Sunny skies smiled down on the marchers, 15,000 strong, in Brooklyn's 86th annual Memorial Day Parade, honoring the nation's Soldiers, Sailors, and Marine dead in all wars in which the United States has participated."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: June 1, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectMemorial Day -- New York (State) -- New York ; Color guards -- New York (State) -- New York ; Triumphal arches -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn, 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: Celebrations: Memorial Day: Soldiers and Sailors Monument (GAP)