About This Item

  • TitleTableau
  • Call NumberHOLI_0313
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryTroop of Girl Scouts and other girls assembled on and around parade float resembling a church organ; girl in pastoral robes standing at pulpit on float; boy pretending to play organ behind her; Long Meadow of Prospect Park in background. Caption on verso: "Tableau: During a half of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union parade in Prospect Park, the 'choristers' attending the Greenwood Baptist Church float assemble at one side of the organ to join the 'preacher' and the 'organist' in a hymn. More than 100,000 Protestant Sunday School pupils took part in the 124th annual event."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jun. 5, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectParade floats -- New York (State) -- New York ; Sunday schools -- New York (State) -- New York ; Girl Scouts -- 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.