About This Item

  • TitleTradition broken
  • Call NumberSCHL_0505
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Tradition broken--Because daisies are 'hard to get,' [16] pretty Packer Collegiate Institute students yesterday carried a laurel chain on Class Day exercises in the garden of the school, 170 Joralemon St. Commencement for 38 graduates will be held tomorrow night."
  • Date1943
  • 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: Jun[e] 6, 1943. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPacker Collegiate Institute ; Graduation ceremonies -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (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.