About This Item


  • TitleEveryone loves a parade
  • Call NumberHOLI_0324
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (HOLI 0323), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two images in Prospect Park of the annual Anniversary Day parade of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union; 0323 shows African American girl and boy (she holding parasol, both wearing sashes) posing together; 0324 shows baby girl sitting in the horn of a tuba player. Caption on verso: "Everyone Loves a Parade: Laura Headley, 5, and David Nurse, 6, spiffed up in their 'go to meetin' clothes for the Galilee Baptist Church parade, look with surprise [0323] as John Eden of the Salvation Army Band, right, blows one-year-old Terry Mathei out of the tuba [0324]."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on versos. On versos: date stamped: Jun. 11, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks on 0324.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSalvation Army ; Parades -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sunday schools -- New York (State) -- New York ; African American children -- New York (State) -- New York ; Infant girls -- New York (State) -- New York ; Tubists -- 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.