Junior wedding

Junior wedding
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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
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