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Window Boxes
1940
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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
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