| Title: | We Here Dedicate |
| Description: | Two Boy Scouts in cemetery, one standing with bundle of flags at right, the other crouching to place flag against headstone at left. Caption on verso: "We Here Dedicate: Graves of unknown soldiers are decorated by Harry Lerch (left) and Arthur Petersen, two of 350 Scouts of Bushwick-Arlington District, who placed flags on 18,000 graves of U.S. soldiers, sailors and marines at National Cemetery, Cypress Hills, in honor of Memorial Day." |
| Date: | 1945 |
| 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, 1945. 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 0424 |