Farmers set East New York abloom
Title: | Farmers set East New York abloom |
Description: | Caption: "Farmers set East New York abloom--Young farm hands spade the flower beds that have set the school yard of P.S. 273, 923 Jerome St., abloom with marigolds and petunias. The farmers, part of the city-wide team working in the Board of Education sponsored school garden program, left to right, Donald Billings, 11 [holding spade], John Maher, 13 [holding pitchfork], Mary Ellen O'Gara, 10 [holding hoe] and Fred Berdolt, 11, till the soil under the supervision of Irene Magilligan, garden teacher;" portions of house and another building, presumably school, in background. |
Date: | 1954 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) East New York (New York, N.Y.) |
More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 13, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Schools
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Subject: |
Public School 273 (New York, N.Y.) Flower gardening Garden tools School children |
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: | SCHL 1474 |