Walter Winchell with orchid display: portrait of Winchell set between orchids (Dendrobium sp. and Cattleya labiata, l. to r.)

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Title:
Walter Winchell with orchid display: portrait of Winchell set between orchids (Dendrobium sp. and Cattleya labiata, l. to r.)
Description:
Orchids left to right: Dendrobium and Cattleya labiata. Window display for Presidents' Day. Card in the display reads: "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." To the right, the inscription on Winchell's portrait reads: "To A. H. Blackington, good wishes, Walter Winchell."
Photographer:
Blackington, Alton H.
Date:
[ca. 1933]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Glass plate 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
Radio journalists--New York (State)--New York--Photographs
Winchell, Walter, 1897-1972
Places:
New York
Extent:
1 photograph ; 8.5 x 10 cm
Link to Item:
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Language:
English
Identifier:
muph061-sl783-i001