About This Item

  • Call NumberGRDN_0176
  • TitleBug hunter
  • SummaryCaption: "Bug hunter--Karl M. Maramorosch, research fellow at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, raises the celluloid cage under which insects have been feeding on diseased plants and by suction through rubber and glass tubing draws the bugs into the tube. The insects, loaded with virus, will now be transfered to uninfected plants and their work observed."
  • Date1948
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Jun[e] 20, 1948; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Botanic Garden ; Plant diseases -- New York (State) -- New York ; Plants -- 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: Plant disease