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  • TitlePuccini festival planned
  • Call NumberCHUR_0817
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryWoman sitting at piano looking at sheet music and man wearing clerical attire standing on left; floor lamp in right background. Caption: "Puccini festival planned--Metropolitan Opera star Vivian Della Chiesa is shown with the Rev. Dante del Fiorentino, pastor of St. Lucy's R. C. Church, 802 Kent Ave., going over the score of one of the numbers whe will sing at the Puccini Festival to be held at the Academy of Music Saturday evening, Nov, 15. Funds realized from the affair will be used to erect a playground for the children of the neighborhood in which St. Lucy's Church is located."
  • Date1952
  • 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: date stamped: Oct. 29, 1952; caption stamped: Nov. 2, 1952; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorMarano, C. F.
  • PublisherBrooklyn Eagle
  • SubjectSt. Lucy's Church ; Church entertainments ; Fund raising ; Women singers
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)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.