About This Item

  • TitlePilgrim statue
  • Call NumberCHUR_0859
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThree altar boys (two carrying candles in tall candlesticks), two girls kneeling wearing capes and floral headpieces and life-size statue and lilies in vase on platform in right foreground, and parishioners, man wearing clerical attire, American flag on pole, portion of church wall, and residential building in background. Caption: "Pilgrim statue of Our lady of Fatima stands at the right near St. Rocco's R. C. Church, 27th St. and 4th Ave., as a crowd of some 2,000 persons pray. A solemn procession was led ... to St. Rocco's ... by Bishop John J. Boardman of Brooklyn, marking the statue's arrival in the borough."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Sep[t] 28, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSt. Rocco's Church ; Processions, Religious ; Statues
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (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.