About This Item

  • TitleGround breaking ceremonies
  • Call NumberGRDN_0045
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Ground-breading ceremonies--Weather nonwithstanding, hardy young perennials of Children's Gardening Club launch spring planting chores at the south end of [Brooklyn] Botanic Garden. Nearly 200 children participated in colorful planting parade yesterday ... Lassies, left to right, are Dorna Roslow, 9, 25 Lefferts Ave.; Mollay Sterling, 13, 49 Wellington Court; Eileen DiGasero, 12, 1776 Bedford Ave.; Janet Shapiro, 9, 75 Lenox Road, and Eleanor Baden, 11, 1597 E. 34th St.."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Apr. 19, 1953; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Kruh." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorKruh, Johnny
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Botanic Garden ; Children's gardens -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gardens -- New York (State) -- New York ; Planting time -- 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.