Japanese Garden at Night, Rockefeller Center, New York City (1941)

Japanese Garden at Night, Rockefeller Center, New York City (1941)

Postcards

P69

Color

yes

Postmarked 15 April 1941 (Brooklyn N.Y).

Inscribed (verso): "I am in New York [...] I am fine, hope you are the same [...] From Allen."

circulated

Caption (verso): "A corner of the Japanese Gardens, one of the twelve individual gardens in the Gardens of the Nations on the 11th floor roof of the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. Around an illuminated snowscene lantern are grouped three lead cranes symbolic of the past, present and future. In the foreground a shallow stream winds under an arched bridge overhung by a weeping cherry tree. In the background against the walls of a Japanese tea house can be seen flowering azeleas and rhododendrons."

divided back

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