The New York Botanical Garden - From the Library: Baby on a Waterlily

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October 14, 2011

From the Library: Baby on a Waterlily

This is a baby on a water lily (Victoria amazonica), but there is no other information—names, year?—in the archives about this photograph.

Any suggestions?

Source: The New York Botanical Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.

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