Claire Ruth at Babe Ruth Memorial Mass photograph

Date1948 August 16

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of Claire Ruth and Paul Carey. The caption (not shown) reads "Wherever baseball is played-and in some places where they've never heard of the sport -people paused today in memory of Babe Ruth, who died a year ago. His widow and a friend, the president of the Carey Cadillac Co., are pictured leaving the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, W. 71st St., after attending a special memorial mass."

Object numberBL-1968-01451-0756

Publisher New York World-Telegram

Subject Carey, Paul, 1928-2016

Subject Ruth, Claire

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 001 New York World-Telegram photographic materials

Dimensions6 x 8 in.

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

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