About This Item

  • TitleCornerstone ceremony
  • Call NumberTEMP_0066
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Cornerstone ceremony: Officiating at laying of cornerstone brought from Israel for new community center and synagogue at Albemarle Road and E. 21st St. of Congregation Shaare Torah of Flatbush are, left to right, Municipal Court Justice Charles H. Breitbart, co-chairman of the ceremony; Louis Lefcourt (with silver trowell), vice president of Shaare Torah; Rabbi Joseph Miller and Acting Mayor Joseph T. Sharkey."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Oct. 22, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectCornerstone laying -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Flatbush (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.