Decorate soldier graves

Decorate soldier graves
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Title: Decorate soldier graves
Description:

Boy Scouts and one Cub Scout bending over headstones in cemetery and adjusting flags. Caption on verso: "Decorate Soldier Graves: Boy Scouts of Bushwick-Arlington district place American flags at headstones of graves of U.S. soldiers and sailors in Cypress Hills Cemetery in prepration for Memorial Day. Nearly 500 Boy Scouts during the past week have been similarly decorating soldier-sailor graves in cemeteries in the five boroughs."

Date: 1946
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Cypress Hills (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: May 29, 1946.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Holidays
Subject: Cypress Hills Cemetery (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Memorial Day
Boy Scouts
Cemeteries
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: HOLI 0419