Claire Ruth and Group at Babe Ruth Memorial Mass photograph

Date1948 August 16

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of (left to right) Claire Ruth, Mary Singhi Breen, Mary Reith, and Peter De Rose at Babe Ruth's Memorial Mass . The caption (not shown) reads "Mrs. Ruth. widow of Mr. Baseball, who died a year ago today, is pictured as she joined others who loved the big guy with the mighty bat in a memorial mass today in the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, W. 71st St. Miss Reith served the Babe for 20 years as a housemaid. [...] De[...] are known professionally as May Singhi Breen and Peter De Rose [...]"

Object numberBL-1968-01451-0758

Publisher New York World-Telegram

Subject Breen, Singhi Mary, 1891-1970

Subject Ruth, Claire

Subject Reith, Mary

Subject De Rose, Peter, 1900-1953

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 001 New York World-Telegram photographic materials

Dimensions9.5 x 7.5 in.

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

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