About This Item

  • TitleLook, but don't touch
  • Call NumberGRDN_0072
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Look, but don't touch--Mrs. Joel Polimer of 901 Washington Ave. tells her daugher, Lesley, 2 1/2, the dangers of poison ivy, which is cultivated in the Herb Garden of the [Brooklyn] Botanic Garden."
  • Date1944
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: May 31, 1953; "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Botanic Garden ; Gardens -- New York (State) -- New York ; Poison ivy -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Prospect Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.