About This Item

  • TitleHarvest time
  • Call NumberPARK_0103
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PARK 0100, PARK 0101, PARK 0099), some of which may also be described in this new record; Four views of children in Fort Green Park vegetable garden. 0099: caption: "Joseph Zelenka ... picks ear of corn at 'Harvest Day' as his brother ... stands by with an ax. ..." 0100: caption: "Harvest Day ... meant awards from the Parks Department for the most diligent workers. Left to right, Antoinette Caputo, Iris Wetstein, Maurice Gell, Carol Cohen, Selma Burman and Francis J. McCormack, senior instructor for farm gardens, Parks Department." 0101: caption: "For the horticultural skill display in their ... garden plots ... Parks Department certificates were presented ... to, left to right, Edward McGuinness ..., Joyce and Joan Broadnack ..., and John Ingria ..." 0103: caption: "Junior soil toilers in the farm garden project ... gather the harvest of this year's labors ..." Several of the children are African Amrican.
  • Date1948-1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description4 photographic prints : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • Note0099: 10 x 8 in.; on verso: "Kruh." 0103: on verso: "Lambert." Title from caption on verso of 0099.
  • CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAfrican American children -- New York (State) -- New York ; Vegetable gardening -- New York (State) -- New York ; Vegetables -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene (New York, N.Y.)Fort Greene Park (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.