| 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.) [2] Cypress Hills (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| More Details: |
Title from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: May 29, 1946. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks. |
| Collection: | Holidays [4]
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| Subject: |
Cypress Hills Cemetery (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) [5] Memorial Day [6] Boy Scouts [7] Cemeteries [8] |
| 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 |