The Moras' Warehouses, North Pier Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn, New York (recto); The Revelation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (verso)
Printer (recto), W. H. Arthur & Co. American
Subject (recto), Mora & Navarro & Mora & Nephew American
Related to verso Rev. John Christopher Drumgoole American, born Ireland
Not on view
This former scrapbook page contains a New York view on one side and religious subject on the other. Brooklyn warehouses owned by Mora & Navarro and Mora & Nephew are shown on the recto. This company dealt in sugar and was established as a United States branch of one centered in Cuba. The wharf around the warehouse is filled with barrels, presumably holding rum or molasses, and piled with sugarcane. The New York branch of this company lasted from 1859-61 then went bankrupt.
On the verso of the sheet, a woodcut shows a nun kneeling before an altar supporting the host with Jesus at right, revealing his Sacred Heart. This is St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, a French sister, who experienced this vision in 1673-75 and left a detailed record in her diary. Text at the bottom of the print is signed by the Irish American priest Father Drumgoole, who ran ministries that cared for homeless and orphaned children on the streets of New York, particularly newsboys. The missions he established in Manhattan in 1879-81 and on Staten Island in 1882 were funded largely by a newsletter "The Homeless Child and Messenger of St. Joseph's Union" (1877-) which developed a worldwide circulation. This print likely was issued in that publication since its text stresses that it is not for individual sale.
