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Groups of people enjoy the lilies at Easter at the Channel Gardens of Rockefeller Center

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Rockefeller Center Channel Gardens at Easter has the pools lined by lilies. Two pools with the Rene Paul Chambellan "Fountainhead Figures" are in the center of the photograph. The Prometheus sculpture by Paul Manship is visible behind the crowd in the background.
Date Published
1954-04-16
1954-04-19
Publisher
Edward Ratcliffe
Subjects
Sculpture
Sculpture gardens
Water gardens
Time Periods
1951-1960
Subjects, Geographic
New York (N.Y.)
Notes

Likely between April 16 and April 19, 1954

Stamped on the back, "FROM; ROCKEFELLER CENTER INC. 50 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NEW YORK, CIRCLE 5-9000. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. PHOTO BY EDWARD RATCLIFFE. Typewritten note attached to back, "NEW YORK, N.Y. Eleven hundred stately white Easter lily plants went on display in the Channel Gardens of Rockefeller Center on Good Friday., April 16, 1954. Each plant averaged six to eight blooms. Choral music on Easter Sunday and Easter Monday by the Rockefeller Center Choristers rounded out the Center's observance of the Easter season."

Digitizing agency: University of Missouri--Kansas City. Library. Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Special Collections.

Extent Of Original
1 photograph : black and white print ; 21 x 26 cm
Member of
Ted Malone Collection
Source File
umkc_lsc_malone_photos-393.tif
Genres
Gelatin silver prints
Black & white photographs
Group portraits
Types
photographs
Physical Location
LaBudde Special Collections
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