Window display for Presidents' Day : Orchids left to right, Dendrobium, Dypredium, Cattleya labiata. Card in the display reads: "Orchids to President Roosevelt and Walter Winchell who first suggested President's Day, Sun. Apr. 30 1933. To the right, the inscription on Winchell's portrait reads: 'To A. H. Blackington, good wishes, Walter Winchell.'

Item Information

Title:
Window display for Presidents' Day : Orchids left to right, Dendrobium, Dypredium, Cattleya labiata. Card in the display reads: "Orchids to President Roosevelt and Walter Winchell who first suggested President's Day, Sun. Apr. 30 1933. To the right, the inscription on Winchell's portrait reads: 'To A. H. Blackington, good wishes, Walter Winchell.'
Description:
From a series of photographs of New England characters. Photos from Alton Hall Blackington's Illustrated Lecture Series "Gentlemen of the Press."
Photographer:
Blackington, Alton H.
Date:
[ca. 1934]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Glass plate negatives
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Alton H. Blackington Collection
Subjects:
Presidents--United States--Photographs
Presidents' Day
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972
Places:
United States
Extent:
1 photograph ; 12.5 x 10 cm.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph061-sl614-i001
Terms of Use:
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Language:
English
Identifier:
muph061-sl614-i001