Roof garden for blind (LOC)
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Roof garden for blind
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the
negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
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
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19557
Call Number: LC-B2- 3548-14
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artolog (3 weeks ago | reply)
swanq (3 weeks ago | reply)
NYT of July 13, 1914
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70F1 FFA3F5E13738...
describes a garden created for the blind on the roof of the new United States Bank Building on Delancey St.
artolog (3 weeks ago | reply)
Oddly, there is another NYT article from the week before which seems to be describing the same event, only at the Bank of the United States Building at 77 Delancey Street.
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E 3DF1038E633A...
The story of the Bank and its founder Joseph S. Marcus "a Jewish immigrant to the United States. Born in the town of Telz in Germany in 1862, he went to school in Essen and immigrated to the United States at the age of 17 and worked his way up from being a tailor, to a garment industry business, to a banker. He founded the Public Bank in 1906 and the Bank of United States in 1913" is an interesting one.
It was Marcus who created and donated this rooftop garden.
The Bank was the first to collapse at the onset of the Great Depression.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_United_States
The Bank's first building at 77 Delancey Street, from 1914, has obviously seen better days:
notraces and indisposable added this photo to their favorites.
This photo was invited and added to the Disability History group.
Barbara (LOC P&P) (2 weeks ago | reply)
Thanks, swanq and artolog, for tracking down the likely site of the roof garden and offering the updates. We'll add information to this and related images when we next update.
excellentzebu1050 (2 weeks ago | reply)
my Compliments Masterwork !
Yehohanan92 added this photo to their favorites. (4 days ago)