About This Item

  • Title[Victory gardens]
  • Call NumberGRDN_0222
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (GRDN 0204, GRDN 0205, GRDN 0209, GRDN 0203), some of which may also be described in this new record; Five views of vegetable gardens. 0203 shows Waldemar Thorson harvesting cucumbers. 0204 shows Mrs. Thorson picking pole beans. 0205 shows an unidentified woman picking lettuce. 0209 shows Mr. Thorson dusting pole beans with insecticide. 0222 shows a woman with a boy and a girl, all unidentified, working in a garden. All images are views of victory gardens.
  • Date1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description5 photographic prints : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: 0203: July, 1944; 0204: May 6, 1945; 0205: Apr. 21, 1946; 0209: Apr. 29, 1945; 0222: Jun[e] 8, 1947. Stamped on verso of 0209: " U. S. D. A. photograph by Ackerman." Title supplied by cataloger.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBeans -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cucumbers -- New York (State) -- New York ; Lettuce -- New York (State) -- New York ; Gardens -- New York (State) -- New York ; Vegetable gardening -- New York (State) -- New York ; Victory 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.