About This Item

  • TitleRite of spring
  • Call NumberGRDN_0030
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Rite of spring--Alfred Drake and Doretta Morrow, stars of the Broadway musical 'Kismet,' officiate at [the] crowning of 17-year-old Dina Mucinieks as May Queen of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's annual Cherry Blos[som] Festival. The surrounding members of May Queen's court are girls of Prospect Heights High School who performed traditional rites of spring and of the blooming of the garden's famed Kwanzan cherry trees...." Image includes two girls dressed as pages, kneeling in the foreground."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. Stamped on verso: date: May 1, 1954; "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectDrake, Alfred, 1914-1992 ; Morrow, Doretta, 1927-1968 ; Brooklyn Botanic Garden ; Actors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Actresses -- New York (State) -- New York ; Cherry trees -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Festivals -- 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.