About This Item

  • Call NumberSCHL_1475
  • TitleThe pause that refreshes
  • SummaryCaption: "The pause that refreshes--Farmerette Joan O'Gara, 4, puts down her shovel and hoe to quench the thirst of the king-sized snap beans she's tending in the schoolyard of P.S. 273 [at 923 Jerome Street]. The midget farmer of the borough's 1,000 student farmers who are raising vegetables and blossoms all over Brooklyn."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 13, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; "Eagle photo by Fox." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorFox, Dan [photographer]
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPublic School 273 (New York, N.Y.) ; School children -- New York (State) -- New York ; Vegetable gardening -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East New York (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: Schools: Public: P.S. #273