About This Item

  • TitleThe Peter Turner memorial
  • Call NumberCHUR_1166
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryBust of Peter Turner on pedestal in churchyard of St. James Pro-Cathedral, Jay Street and Cathedral Place, with several tombstones and portion of church facade in background. Inscription on pedestal: "To the memory of Peter Turner who, on Jan. 1, 1822, organized his seventy fellow Catholics for the purchase of this ground on which the first Catholic Church of Long Island was erected. Born 1787, died 1863."
  • Date1914
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 7 x 5 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Apr. 19, 1914. Retouched. Title from inscription on verso.
  • SubjectTurner, Peter, 1787-1863 ; St. James Pro-Cathedral ; Cemeteries ; Monuments
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.