About This Item

  • TitleTo help pay mortgage
  • Call NumberCHUR_0685
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMan and woman wearing dress clothes stand next to man wearing clerical attire; woman is handing priest a document. Caption: "To help pay mortgage--Teresa Aiello presents $10,000 check to the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Angelo R. Cioffi, pastor of the new Regina Pacis Votive Shrine, at Waldorf-Astoria coronation dinner. The money was donated by the Aiello Dairy Farm Company to help meet the shrine's 400,000 mortgage. Looking on is Mayor Impellitteri."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: caption stamped: Feb. 4, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E. [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectRegina Pacis Votive Shrine ; Catholic church buildings [lctgm] ; Fund raising
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBensonhurst (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (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.