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1936 Philadelphia Flower Show. Weeders Garden Club with Kuan-yin Figure

MLA citation style
1936 Philadelphia Flower Show. Weeders Garden Club With Kuan-Yin Figure. no date. 1936.
APA citation style
(1936). 1936 Philadelphia Flower Show. Weeders Garden Club with Kuan-yin Figure. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A60817
Chicago citation style
“1936 Philadelphia Flower Show. Weeders Garden Club With Kuan-Yin Figure”, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - Philadelphia Flower Show, 1936. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A60817.
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Title

1936 Philadelphia Flower Show. Weeders Garden Club with Kuan-yin Figure

Subject

Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Weeders, The (Club)
Sculpture
Philadelphia Flower Show (1936 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Avalokiteśvara (Buddhist deity)

Description

The Weeders garden club captured first prize in the 1936 garden class. This simple and charming entry with a small pool, a tall pine tree, and potted primulas was complemented by a stone figure, Kaan Yin, a Buddhist goddess of compassion and kindness.

Date

1936

Location Covered

Philadelphia (Pa.)
Commercial Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Type

Image

Original Format

Photographs

Digital Format

image/tiff

Identifier

1936WeedersGardenClubWithKaanYinFigure_FS04_JELegacy

Language

eng

Relation

Philadelphia Flower Show Collection

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Contact

For more information, contact McLean Library and Archives, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 100 North 20th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103, 215-988-8782, mcleanlibrary@pennhort.org

Contributing Institution

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. In addition, this project is supported in part through a National Endowment for the Humanities Cares Grant.