About This Item

  • TitleSolemn ordination rites
  • Call NumberCHUR_0783
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTwenty-three young men wearing clerical attire kneeling and singing; they are holding open books. Caption: "Solemn ordination rites--Twenty-five newly ordained priests kneel in prayer in St. James Pro-Cathedral at ceremony conducted by Archbishop Thomas E. Molloy."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: caption stamped: Jun[e] 10, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSt. James Pro-Cathedral ; Catholic churches [lctgm] ; Ordination
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (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.