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  • TitleFarmers set East New York abloom
  • Call NumberSCHL_1474
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryCaption: "Farmers set East New York abloom--Young farm hands spade the flower beds that have set the school yard of P.S. 273, 923 Jerome St., abloom with marigolds and petunias. The farmers, part of the city-wide team working in the Board of Education sponsored school garden program, left to right, Donald Billings, 11 [holding spade], John Maher, 13 [holding pitchfork], Mary Ellen O'Gara, 10 [holding hoe] and Fred Berdolt, 11, till the soil under the supervision of Irene Magilligan, garden teacher;" portions of house and another building, presumably school, in background.
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 13, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectPublic School 273 (New York, N.Y.) ; Flower gardening -- New York (State) -- New York ; Garden tools -- New York (State) -- New York ; School children -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East New York (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.