“Barefoot woman inspecting her garden, ‘Aunt Lee’,” ca. 1904 – ca. 1918, location and photographer unknown, via simpleinsomnia on flickr (under CC license).
Category: nature
Front yard, Georgia
Georgia family in their front yard, ca. 1899, photographer unknown, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
This photo was in one of the several albums depicting African-American life that W. E. B. Du Bois compiled to exhibit at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair.
Click on the image for a little better view.
Sarasota, Florida
Couple tends to their yard at Trailer Estates, Sarasota, Florida, November 1967, by Division of Tourism, via Florida Memory (State Library & Archives of Florida) Commons on flickr.
The Sunday porch: Chanute, Kansas
Front porch, Chanute, Kansas, November 1940, by John Vachon for the U.S. Office of War Information, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Florence, Italy
Pergola covered in wisteria and ivy in a garden of Villa Palmieri, Florence, ca. 1915, from the Arthur Peck Collection, via Oregon State University (OSU) Special Collections & Archives Commons on flickr.
The 14th century Villa Palmieri is credited with being the story-telling setting for Boccaccio’s Decameron.
To see this garden, its handsome ordering, the plants, and the fountain with rivulets issuing from it, was so pleasing to each lady and the three young men that all began to affirm that, if Paradise could be made on earth, they couldn’t conceive a form other than that of this garden that might be given it.
However, the garden was completely restructured in 1697 and then partially redesigned several times thereafter, according to current fashions, through to the 1920s.
Since 1986, the villa has been owned by the Italian government and houses part of the European University Institute.
Arthur Peck was a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Oregon Agricultural College from 1908 to 1948. During his long career, he created a teaching library of 24 boxes of glass lantern slides — now in OSU’s archives.
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