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May 17 - September 7, 2014

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Frances Benjamin Johnston with Camera in Garden, Biltmore, Asheville, NC
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

 

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.

Digitized Titles in This Exhibition

  • According to Season; Talks About the Flowers in the Order of Their Appearance in the Woods and Field
    by Frances Theodora Parsons
    New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1894

Woman with rake.

  • Practical Hints on Coloring Lantern Slides
    by William Green
    Wilson's Photographic Magazine, January 1913
  • Careers for Women
    by Catherine Filene
    Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920

Watch the Opening Day Lecture, "Picturing a Beautiful America", by Curator Sam Watters

About the Garden-wide Exhibition, "Groundbreakers"

Groundbreakers Curator Video with SUBS from The New York Botanical Garden on Vimeo.

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Recommended Reading

  • Book CoverGardens for a Beautiful America, 1895-1935: Photographs By Frances Benjamin Johnston by Sam Watters
    Call Number: SB451.3 .W38 2012
    ISBN: 0926494155
    Publication Date: 2012-04-11
  • Book CoverThe Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940 by Mac Griswold; Eleanor Weller
    Call Number: SB466.U6 G75 1992
    ISBN: 0810933586
    Publication Date: 1991-09-30
  • Book CoverUnbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century by Thaïsa Way
    Call Number: SB469.9 .W39 2009
    ISBN: 0813928087
    Publication Date: 2009-04-21
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    Call Number: SB469.9 .Z35 2009
    ISBN: 0393731243
    Publication Date: 2009-03-09
  • Book CoverGroundbreakers : great American gardens and the women who designed them, May 17-September 7. 2014 by New York Botanical Garden
    Call Number: SB469.375 .N49 2014
    Publication Date: 2014
  • Book CoverParks, Plants, and People by Lynden B. Miller; Miller
    Call Number: SB470.54.N6 M55 2009
    ISBN: 0393732037
    Publication Date: 2009-09-21
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    Call Number: SB470.C62 F55 1995
    ISBN: 0964300303
    Publication Date: 2002-03-01
  • Book CoverBeatrix: The Gardening Life of Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1872-1959 by Jane Brown
    Call Number: SB470.F37 B76 1995
    ISBN: 0670832170
    Publication Date: 1995-02-01
  • Book CoverBeatrix Farrand : private gardens, public landscapes by Judith B. Tankard
    Call Number: SB470.F37 T36 2009
    ISBN: 1580932274
    Publication Date: 2009-09-29
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