The LuEsther T. Mertz Library’s Rondina and LoFaro Gallery featured an exhibition of vintage photographs and equipment highlighting the landmark work of pioneering female photographers Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870–1942), Mattie Edwards Hewitt (1869–1956), and Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952). In addition to historic garden photography by Beals, Hewitt, and Johnston, photo-illustrated books, vintage glass slides, and a digital slide show of hand-colored glass slides were be on view.
Sam Watters, curator of Gardens for a Beautiful America, is an architectural and landscape historian and author of Gardens for a Beautiful America: 1895–1935. He published several books on American houses and gardens and was a columnist for the Los Angeles Times "Home" section from 2008–12.
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Gardens for a Beautiful America, 1895-1935: Photographs By Frances Benjamin Johnston by 
The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940 by 
Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century by 
Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them by 
Groundbreakers : great American gardens and the women who designed them, May 17-September 7. 2014 by 
Parks, Plants, and People by 
Money, Manure and Maintenance: Ingredients for Successful Gardens of Marian Coffin, Pioneer Landscape Architect, 1876-1957 by 
Beatrix: The Gardening Life of Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1872-1959 by 
Beatrix Farrand : private gardens, public landscapes by