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Gift to the Botanic Garden

Gift to the Botanic Garden
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Title: Gift to the Botanic Garden
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Caption: "Gift to the Botanic Garden--Mrs. Edward C. Blum, who founded Forsythia Day in 1940, presents 42-by-67 inch photo mural, colored in oil and depicting the golden-blossomed forsythia, to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Left to right are Louis Buhle, the Garden's Staff photographer who made the mural; Mrs. Blum, and Dr. George S. Avery Jr., director of the Garden."
Date: 1953
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2]
Creator: McNamara, C. E.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
Stamped on verso: date: Apr. 10, 1053; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Photo by C. E. McNamara."
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Gardens [3]
Subject: Brooklyn Botanic Garden. [4]
Forsythia [5]
Gardens [6]
Mural painting and decoration, American [7]
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
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: GRDN 0110
 
Source URL (retrieved on 07/26/2017 - 01:26): http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/gift-botanic-garden

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[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Gardens
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/f/Forsythia
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/g/Gardens
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/m/Mural painting and decoration, American