About This Item

  • TitleBless new Canarsie church and school
  • Call NumberCHUR_0609
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFive men in clerical attire standing in yard with many spectators and residential buildings behind them; man on far right wearing military attire holds American flag on pole. Caption: "Bless new Canarsie church and school--Archbishop Thomas E. Malloy blesses new Holy Family School and Church in Canarsie at Flatlands Ave. and Rockaway Parkway. Front row from left to right are Monsignor Angelo Cioffi, Edmund J. Reilly, Archbishop Molloy, Monsignor Vincent O. Genova, pastor, and Monsignor Francis P. Barilla. In the background are Supreme Court Justices Anthony J. DiGiovanna and Henry L Ughetta, Borough President Cashmore and girls from school."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Apr. 20, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectChurch of the Holy Family ; Catholic Church -- Clergy ; Catholic church buildings [lctgm] ; Church schools
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceCanarsie (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.