A display of chrysanthemums in a Central Experimental Farm greenhouse, Ottawa, ca. 1920s, photographer unknown, via Library and Archives Canada (under CC license).
Category: North American gardens
The Sunday porch: catching up
A repeat porch from October 2014. . .
“Snapshot, two women sitting on the front porch of a house, unidentified,” ca. 1912-1934, by Michael Francis Blake, via David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Libraries Commons on flickr.
Blake was one of the first African-American studio photographers in Charleston, South Carolina. His collection at Duke consists of 117 photos in an album entitled “Portraits of Members.”
. . . our effort to open the gift of the world,
our hope to find years
in this box we tear apart.— Allan Johnston, from “Evening Conversation“
Vintage landscape: wishful thinking
Cross Manor, near St. Mary’s City, Maryland, 1936 or 37, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Some big boxwood love. The house (with 110 acres) still exists and may be the oldest in Maryland. Click here to see photos from 2013, when Ted Koppel lived there.
Vintage landscape: Lake Mohonk, N.Y.
The flower gardens of Lake Monhonk Mountain House, Ulster County, New York, ca. 1902, a postcard by Detroit Publishing Co., via The New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Lake Mohonk Mountain House is a resort founded in 1879 by Albert Smiley, a “passionate gardener,” and a Quaker deeply concerned with the cause of world peace. (From 1895 to 1916, he convened annual conferences on international arbitration at the hotel.) The main building, shown on the postcard above, has 259 guest rooms and is now a National Historic Landmark.
Life in gardens: a capital view
Third grade school pupils on field trip, standing on the west terrace of the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.,” ca. 1899, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
In 1899, Johnston became interested in progressive education and made a photo survey of students at public schools in Washington, D.C.
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