Orchids to President Roosevelt and Walter Winchell: portraits of Roosevelt and Winchell with orchid display (Dendrobium sp. and Cattleya labiata, l. to r.)

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Title:
Orchids to President Roosevelt and Walter Winchell: portraits of Roosevelt and Winchell with orchid display (Dendrobium sp. and Cattleya labiata, l. to r.)
Description:
For glass plate of Winchell photograph, orchids (left to right): Dendrobium and Cattleya labiata. Presidents' Day window display with card reading: "Orchids to President Roosevelt and Walter Winchell who first suggested President's Day, Sun. Apr. 30 1933. Photos from Alton Hall Blackington's Illustrated Lecture Series "Gentlemen of the Press." For Winchell's portrait, see muph061-sl782-i001, which reads: "To A. H. Blackington, good wishes, Walter Winchell."
Photographer:
Blackington, Alton H.
Date:
[ca. 1933]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Black-and-white negatives
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Alton H. Blackington Collection
Subjects:
Journalists--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Orchids--Photographs
Presidents' Day
Radio journalists--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972
Places:
New York
Extent:
1 photograph ; 8.5 x 10 cm
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph061-sl783-i002
Terms of Use:
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Language:
English
Identifier:
muph061-sl783-i002