About This Item


  • Call NumberGRDN_0174
  • TitleThe insect house
  • SummaryCaption: "The insect house--Those infected clover plants under their individual canopies with gauze tops and tufts of absorbent cotton plugging holes through which they are watered are being fed on by insects which will carry the virus to the clover in the greenhouse."
  • Date1948
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Jun[e] 20, 1948. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Botanic Garden ; Clover -- New York (State) -- New York ; 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