Title: | Shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes |
Description: | Caption: "A young girl [back to camera, wearing winter coat and hat] on her way home from high school stops a moment to pray at the outside shrine [in grotto] to our Lady of Lourdes at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 40th St. on the grounds of St. Catherine of Alexandria's Church. The shrine will be dedicated Dec. 3 by Mons. Fulton J. Sheen;" presumably the girl is a student at the Church's school. |
Date: | 1939 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Borough Park (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date inscribed: Nov. 19/39. Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Schools [4]
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Subject: |
Prayer [5] Shrines [6] |
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: | SCHL 0252 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/977770c6e4c0f6ececf21133bf3f45f8&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Borough+Park+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Schools
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Prayer
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Shrines