About This Item

  • TitleChristmas gift for birds
  • Call NumberGRDN_0071
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Christmas gift for birds--Little Francine Newman gets a pre-Christmas look at one of the 10 new feeding stations presented to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as a gift of Walter N. Rothschild, right, president of Abraham & Straus. Dr. George S. Avery, Jr., garden director, shows the child how the garden will provide food for many birds who spend their winters in Brooklyn."
  • Date1952
  • 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: Dec. 23, 1952; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Baldwin and Mermey." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBaldwin and Mermey
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Botanic Garden ; Birdhouses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Executives -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gardens -- 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.