About This Item

  • Call NumberGRDN_0110
  • TitleGift to the Botanic Garden
  • SummaryCaption: "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."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Apr. 10, 1053; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Photo by C. E. McNamara." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorMcNamara, C. E.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Botanic Garden ; Forsythia -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gardens -- New York (State) -- New York ; Mural painting and decoration, American -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Gifts