Identifier: brooklynbotanicg00gage (find matches)
Title: The Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Gager, C. Stuart (Charles Stuart), 1872-1943
Subjects: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Publisher: (Brooklyn?)
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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