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1921
Vertical file 4: OVR 61-70
GUSN-199031
This color poster has a young girl with a watering can. The scene includes the lines from the nursery rhyme "Mary Mary Quite Contrary."
advertising
agriculture
seed
nursery rhymes
gardening
business (commercial function)
girls
watering cans
prints (visual works)
photomechanical prints
Prints and Engravings Collection Number 65OVR
1 photomechanical reproduction
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1925-05-18
GC002.02.065
Gift
31.5 x 23.5 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of D. M. Ferry and Co., 1925
Detroit (Wayne county, Michigan)
Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 (Artist)
Wood, Rusling (Printer)
D. M. Ferry and Co. (Publisher)
prints (visual works)
photomechanical prints
D. M. Ferry and Co.
Seeds
Mother Goose
Excellent
Item
Vertical file 4: OVR 61-70
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