Blog Posts tagged as: BrooklynBotanicGarden

POTW: [Blossoms]

Kevina, Center for Brooklyn History

[Blossoms], May, 1975, V1990.2.251; Donald L. Nowlan Brooklyn collection, ARC.120; Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.
Today's Photo of the Week shows the Cherry Esplanade in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in May 1975. The photograph comes from the Donald L. Nowlan Brooklyn collection ARC.120. Nowlan attended Saint Saviour Elementary School in Park Slope, high school at Manual Training High School, also in Park Slope, and Brooklyn College in Midwood. Through his time in Brooklyn he documented the beauty of the Botanic…

Brooklyn Goes Daffy - It's Spring!

Deborah

View of many flowering daffodil plants in Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1935. GRDN_0093.  Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History​ 
Spring has officially sprung, on March 20th to be exact, and with it come the bright faces of flowers. I am always on the lookout for blooms in the late days of winter, but for me the daffodils mark the true turn of the season. This photo of the week, taken in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1935, makes the flowers look like they are glowing. If you think the flowers are…