Junior wedding
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.) Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.) |
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
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Subject: |
Parades School children Weddings Sunday schools Parks |
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 |