About This Item

  • Call NumberMEMO_0008
  • TitleDedication dignitaries
  • SummaryCaption: "Dedication dignitaries--Viewing solemn ceremonies, and lending their own prestige to occasion, are, left to right, Mrs. William H. Good, Brooklyn's national Democratic committeewoman; the Rev. Theodore H. Winkert, American Legion chaplain, who read from the Scriptures, and the Rev. Daniel J. Potterton, chaplain, Kings County Catholic War Veterans, who offered benediction." The ceremony is that of the opening of the Brooklyn War Memorial in Cadman Plaza Park. Image includes a section of the memorial's inscription in the background.
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChaplains -- New York (State) -- New York ; Inscriptions -- New York (State) -- New York ; Memorials -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown 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: Memorials: Brooklyn War Memorial: Ceremonies