[Gardeners preparing a floral display honoring Boy Scout Week outside the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park]

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Local identifier: AAA-7590
Title: [Gardeners preparing a floral display honoring Boy Scout Week outside the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park]
Date: 1955 Feb. 5
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: San Francisco News-Call Bulletin
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.
Note: Folder: S.F. Parks-Golden Gate-Conservatory Floral Greeting Displays.
Printed on back: "John McKelvey of the Recreation and Park Dept., points his finger at the huge Boy Scout symbol being planted in Golden Gate Park in front of the conservatory in honor of Boy Scout Week, Feb. 5-12. He explained nearly 14,000 Echiveria plants will go into the composition of the emblem. Several Park Dept. gardeners have been working on it for several days. (l to r) Mounted Police Officer Bernard Gallagher, Roy N. Buell, member of the local advisory committee for Scout Week, who suggested the idea, Cub Scouts Ken Jones and Jimmy Stull of Pack 135, watch the emblem's formation by gardeners.".
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, Calif.)
Conservatory of Flowers (San Francisco, Calif.)
Subject Name: Conservatory of Flowers (San Francisco, Calif.)
Bibliographic Number: .b10026927
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:117680