Title: | Junior wedding |
Description: | Children dressed as adults in formal wear in mock wedding ceremony on Long Meadow of Prospect Park, as part of annual Anniversary Day parade of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union; boy at right posing as pastor, boy and girl in center posing as bride and groom, and other children posing as members of wedding party; floral cross next to girl posing as bride. Caption on verso: "Junior Wedding: Jeffrey Lih, 8, of 534 9th St. unites Billy Calvin, 6, of 761 55th St., and Linda Main, 7, of 490 9th St. in a bit of pageantry by Sunday school pupils of the Prospect Heights Presbyterian Church." |
Date: | 1950 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jun. 9, 1950; "Eagle Staff photo." Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks |
Collection: | Holidays [4]
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Subject: |
Parades [5] School children [6] Weddings [7] Sunday schools [8] Parks [9] |
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 0293 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/ba495e0cb13ac99c752cbaae65f69c8b&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Prospect+Park+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Holidays
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Parades
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/School children
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/w/Weddings
[8] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/s/Sunday schools
[9] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Parks