| Title: | Farmers set East New York abloom |
| Description: | Caption: "Farmers set East New York abloom--Young farm hands spade the flower beds that have set the school yard of P.S. 273, 923 Jerome St., abloom with marigolds and petunias. The farmers, part of the city-wide team working in the Board of Education sponsored school garden program, left to right, Donald Billings, 11 [holding spade], John Maher, 13 [holding pitchfork], Mary Ellen O'Gara, 10 [holding hoe] and Fred Berdolt, 11, till the soil under the supervision of Irene Magilligan, garden teacher;" portions of house and another building, presumably school, in background. |
| Date: | 1954 |
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] East New York (New York, N.Y.) [3] |
| More Details: |
Grease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 13, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso. |
| Collection: | Schools [4]
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| Subject: |
Public School 273 (New York, N.Y.) [5] Flower gardening [6] Garden tools [7] School children [8] |
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
| Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
| Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library |
| ID: | SCHL 1474 |