About This Item

  • Call NumberGRDN_0121
  • TitleAfter 37 years
  • SummaryCaption: "After 37 years--Joan Pasko, 20, and Joan Macauto, 19, Pratt Institute students, observe the creamy three-foot stems of flowers, circled at the top of this 14-foot coccothrinax crinata, thatch palm to you. Believed the only specimen in this country, it is 70 years old and is now blooming for the first time since it was planted in the conservatory of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1915."
  • Date1952
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. Stamped on verso: date: Sep[t] 24, 1952; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Lambert." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Botanic Garden ; Gardens -- New York (State) -- New York ; Greenhouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Palms -- 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: Greenhouse