About This Item

  • Call NumberGRDN_0140
  • TitleInjured duckling strictly on its own
  • SummaryCaption: "Injured duckling strictly on its own--Members of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden staff, right, use gentle persuasion in an effort to lure to shore a duckling with a broken bill ... The injured duckling, born a few months ago to a transient mallard in the Japanese Garden lake, was first spotted last Friday ... Scores of visitors to the Garden have expressed concern over the duckling's plight."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Sep[t] 15, 1954; on caption: "Eagle photo by Fox." Grease pencil cropping marks. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorFox, Dan [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Botanic Garden ; Gardens -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gardens, Japanese -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lakes -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Prospect Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Gardens: B'klyn Botanic: Japanese Garden: Dated