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Planting of trees, Arbor Day, N.Y. Public School No. 4, 173rd St. & Fulton Ave., New York – Vintage Print

Planting of trees, Arbor Day, N.Y. Public School No. 4, 173rd St. & Fulton Ave., New York, 5/8/08. — historic photograph
Planting of trees, Arbor Day, N.Y. Public School No. 4, 173rd St. & Fulton Ave., New York, 5/8/08.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Planting of trees, Arbor Day, N.Y. Public School No. 4, 173rd St. & Fulton Ave., New York, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Planting of trees, Arbor Day, N.Y. Public School No. 4, 173rd St. & Fulton Ave., New York

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Schoolchildren gathered at Public School No. 4, at 173rd Street and Fulton Avenue, to plant trees on Arbor Day. The holiday began in Nebraska in 1872, when J. Sterling Morton proposed a day devoted to planting, and schools across the country took it up in the following decades. By the early twentieth century, many city districts used the observance to teach students to care for public grounds, tending young trees in school yards and nearby streets. The image is a glass negative from the George Grantham Bain Collection, and its title comes from information supplied by the Bain News Service that was not independently verified. Its recorded date is 5/8/08.

Created / published5/8/08.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
GenreGlass negatives.
NotesForms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded.
SourceLibrary of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection
Original scan5,785 × 4,166 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-BNN-1631

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