Prospect Heights (New York, N.Y.)

A beauty

Caption: "Elizabeth Clarke, curatorial assistant at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, poses with a crysanthemum selected from the exhibition now approaching full...

A thing of beauty

Caption: "A thing of beauty--Inspecting blooms in the Cranford Rose Garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden during the annual Fall Rose Day program...

Administration Building

Exterior view of the Administration Building at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The building opened in 1918. The image is not dated.

Alma Young

Caption: "Miss Alma Young, ... came from Hong Kong to view the [Brooklyn] Botanic Garden's spring loveliness." Image includes two men, both back to camera...

Anita Kanter

Caption: "Anita Phyllis Kanter, a pretty rosebud, surrounded by the cherry blossoms now in full bloom at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden."

Autumnal bloom

Caption: "Autumnal bloom--That's 3-year-old Peggy Ross of 118 S. Elliot Place among the multi-colored crysanthemums in riotous bloom in the...

Azaleas, too!

Caption: "Azaleas, too!--Azaleas and little boys add to the color of the garden during Cherry Blossom Festival. ..."

Beatrice Moore
Bloom

Caption: "Bloom--Hundreds have visited the Brooklyn Botanic Garden viewling the chrerry blossoms now in bloom. Dorothy Howe, left, and Dorothy Gros, students at...

Blooming invitation

Caption: "Blooking invitation--Take a few steps from busy Flatbush Ave. into the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on a sunny spring day and the...

Blossom queen

Caption: "Blossom queen--Lovely Dina Mucinieks smiles through a lush frame of colorful cherry blossoms before being crowned as May Queen.The 17-year-...

Blossom time

Caption: "Blossom time--A soldier boy and his girl contemplate the wonders spring has wrought on the cherry trees in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden."

Boro Botanic Garden gets top award

Caption (GRDN 0058): "Boro Botanic Garden gets top award--Here is one of the displays of the Brooklyn...

Boro Botanic Garden gets top award

Caption (GRDN 0058): "Boro Botanic Garden gets top award--Here is one of the displays of the Brooklyn...

Boro Botanic Garden gets top award

Caption (GRDN 0058): "Boro Botanic Garden gets top award--Here is one of the displays of the Brooklyn...

Boro Botanic Garden gets top award

Caption (GRDN 0058): "Boro Botanic Garden gets top award--Here is one of the displays of the Brooklyn...

Borough's own show

Caption: "Borough's own show--Not to be outdone by the Washington, D. C. cherry blossom splendor, Brooklyn's own trees have spread...

Botanic Garden fountain

View of a fountain in the Brookyn Botanic Garden.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Posed group of young women, all wearing white evening gowns, taking part in Cherry Blossom Week at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden....

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Posed group of young women, all wearing white evening gowns, taking part in Cherry Blossom Week at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden...

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Exhibit on pruning at the Brooklyn Bortanic Garden's International Flower Show.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Exhibit on pruning at the Brooklyn Bortanic Garden's International Flower Show.

Brooklyn botanic Garden

View of many flowering daffodil plants in Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Japanese Garden in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Japanese Garden in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Japanese Garden in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden gates

Architectural renderings of entrance gates ,in different locations, in Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden gates

Architectural renderings of entrance gates ,in different locations, in Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden pond

View of a pond in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Inscription on verso: "Pond to be filled with water flowers."

Brooklyn's May Queen

Caption: "Brooklyn's May Queen--Beatrice Menne, crowned May Queen at opening of Brooklyn Botanic Garden Week, reigns prettily from...

Buds

Caption: "Buds--Jo-anne Garofalo, 6, of 1725 E.32d St., takes a close-up of a bed of flowering iris in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden."

Call of the tame

Caption: "Call of the tame--Perched on shore of Oriental Garden lake at Brooklyn Botanic Garden,Joy Dueland of 163 Ocean Ave., watches promenade of...

Cherry blossom thime in Brooklyn

Caption: "Cherry blossom time in Brooklyn--Eleanor Lange takes time out during lunch hour at Prospect Heights High...

Cherry blossom time in Brooklyn

Caption: "Cherry blossom time in Brooklyn--Unseasonably warm weather this spring caused the borough's cherry trees...

Cherry blossom time in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Caption: "Cherry blossom time in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden brings such priceless...

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry blossoms

One of fourteen views, in three different sizes, of the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry Walk

Cherry trees on Cherry Walk in Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Cherry Walk

Cherry trees on Cherry Walk in Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Chinese fleece vine

Chinese fleece vine shrub at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Chinese fleece vine

Chinese fleece vine shrub at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Christmas gift for birds

Caption: "Christmas gift for birds--Little Francine Newman gets a pre-Christmas look at one of the 10 new feeding stations...

City's first lady and queen of May

Caption: "City's first lady and queen of May--Mrs. Vincent Impellitteri, wife of the mayor, crowns Mary...

Crab apple tree

Close-up view of a crab apple tree in Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The image is not dated.

Cranford Rose Garden

Caption: "[Ro]se Day was celebrated yesterday afternoon in the Cranford Rose Garden [at the] Brooklyn Botanic Garden. George S. Avery,...

Dahlia

Close-up view of a flowering dahlia plant in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The image is not dated.

Federation project

Caption: "Federation project--Artist's conception of proposed new inpatient building for Jewish Hospital [located at 520 Prospect Place],...

First prize

Caption: "First prize--A charming pastoral setting at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden was captured in this prize-winning photo by Theodore Donaldson of 1631...