Crowd Outside Babe Ruth's Funeral photograph

Date1948 August 19

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of the crowd for Babe Ruth's funeral. The caption (not shown) reads "Part of the vast throng that gathered near St. Patrick' Cathedral, New York City to view funeral cortege of baseball's mighty Babe Ruth, Aug. 19, seek shelter from rain under a sea of umbrellas."

Object numberBL-1968-01451-0708

Publisher New York World-Telegram

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 001 New York World-Telegram photographic materials

Dimensions8 x 6.5 in.

Copyrighthttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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