Gift to the Botanic Garden
Title: | Gift to the Botanic Garden |
Description: | Caption: "Gift to the Botanic Garden--Mrs. Edward C. Blum, who founded Forsythia Day in 1940, presents 42-by-67 inch photo mural, colored in oil and depicting the golden-blossomed forsythia, to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Left to right are Louis Buhle, the Garden's Staff photographer who made the mural; Mrs. Blum, and Dr. George S. Avery Jr., director of the Garden." |
Date: | 1953 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
Creator: | McNamara, C. E. |
More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Apr. 10, 1053; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Photo by C. E. McNamara." Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Gardens
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Subject: |
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Forsythia Gardens Mural painting and decoration, American |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. Portraits. |
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: | GRDN 0110 |