About This Item
- TitleYoung paraders on Long Meadow
- Call NumberHOLI_0294
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOLI 0298), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two views of Prospect Park during the annual Anniversary Day parade of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union; 0294 shows a large procession of mothers with small children and baby carriages, with many bystanders in observance; 0298 shows close-up view of children seated in a float, with mothers and young women looking at them in the background. Captions on versos: "Young Paraders on Long Meadow: Above [0294], a division of 100,000 gay Sunday School children who marched in 26 colorful parades to the plaudits of 500,000 onlookers. Right, above [0298], wide-eyed youngsters from St. Matthew's Emanuel Lutheran Church ride by in a float. Perfect weather yesterday brought out one of largest crowds, both of child participants and adult onlookers, since first Anniversary Day parade back in the 1820s."
- Date1951
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteTitle from caption on verso. On versos: date stamped: Jun. 8, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
- CreatorBrooklyn eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectParades -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parade floats -- New York (State) -- New York ; Mothers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Children -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sunday schools -- New York (State) -- New York ; Parks -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Prospect 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.