About This Item


  • TitleBlooming invitation
  • Call NumberGRDN_0094
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Blooking invitation--Take a few steps from busy Flatbush Ave. into the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on a sunny spring day and the bustle of the borough is lost in a mass of blossoms and greenery. Irene McGrath, 10, of 50 Montgomery Place, gets closer to nature in the form of a dainty daffodil."
  • Date1953
  • 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: Apr. 18, 1953; "Brooklyn Eagle;" "Lambert." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorLambert, Al
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectBrooklyn Botanic Garden ; Daffodils -- New York (State) -- New York ; Flowers -- 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.