Demonstration garden, Bryant Park, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, New York. (LOC)
Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
[Demonstration garden, Bryant Park, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, New York. Visitors studying gardening notices]
[1918 August]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. Today: Bryant Park extant.
Slide for lecturing on city and suburban gardens.
Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011.
Photo shows Bryant Park with New York Public Library; two boys, one on
roller skates, and a man reading the notices. Garden is a project by
the National War Garden Commission, 1918.
Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances
Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York:
Acanthus Press, 2012. Frontispiece plate for section "Gardens for
City and Suburb."
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16152
Call Number: LC-J717-X98- 77
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