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Window Boxes

1940

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Window Boxes
  • Title
  • Window Boxes
  • Creator
  • Irene Kaufmann Settlement
  • Date
  • 1940
  • Identifier
  • 7812.201414.IKS
  • Description
  • A young contestant, Dolores Verdile, participating in the Better Neighborhood Contest waters her window box garden. This image was published by the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph on August 23, 1940 bearing the caption, "Dolores, just 8, with her garden boxes around her Webster Avenue home. She was given of the top awards. There was not one inch of plantable dirt around her home when she started, aided only by her grandmother, who got the soil for her."
  • Extent
  • 8 x 10 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
    photographic prints
    gelatin silver prints
  • Subject
  • Social settlements
    Gardens
    Urban beautification
    Girls
    Children
    Plants
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Oliver M. Kaufmann Photograph Collection of the Irene Kaufmann Settlement, 1912-1969
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Oliver M. Kaufmann Photograph Collection of the Irene Kaufmann Settlement
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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