About This Item

  • Call NumberGRDN_0111
  • TitleNew fountain at Botanic Garden
  • SummaryView of an unidentified young girl sitting beside a drinking fountain at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
  • Date1929
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteInscribed on verso: "Gift of Mrs.William Hamlin Childs." On verso: date inscribed: Sept.17/29; stamped: Joseph Smith, Photographer." Title from inscription on verso.
  • CreatorSmith, Joseph
  • SubjectBrooklyn Botanic Garden ; Drinking fountains -- New York (State) -- New York ; Fountains -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gardens -- 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
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.
  • FolderFolder: Gardens: B'klyn Botanic: Gifts