Series includes images of plants in flower, rock, cottage, urban gardens, and greenhouses in flower beds, containers and on patios.
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Ken Druse garden photography collection
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Series includes images Urban gardens including patio, deck, rooftop, public, community, playground, courtyard, city, and residential gardens with containers, statues, outdoor furniture, water features, fences, walls, and plant supports, as well as city views.
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Series includes images of window boxes on houses windows, porches, patios, and shop fronts.
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Series includes images of Poncirus trifoliata [citrus trifoliata], commonly called Trifolate orange, with fruits on the shrubs, as well as small white flowers in a park-like setting and in front of a building.
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Series includes images of Lonicera, commonly known as Honeysuckle, growing on fences and structures such as houses, sheds, archways, arbors, covering a roof, as well as trained in standard on a wooden post in a flower bed bordering a cobble-stone path. Close shots of the flowers and foliage are also included.
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Series includes images of Parthenocissus displaying green, maroon, purple and red foliage asn grape-like berries climbing, and in some cases completely covering stone and brick walls, as well as a cast-iron gate.
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Series includes images of Vitis, commonly called Grapes, with vines and berries trained over fences, up a brick wall, and over a garden path on an arbor in a flower garden, with views of a city and skyscraper in the distance.
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Series includes images of Topiary and Trained Plants, including Espaliers and Bonsai, in containers, greenhouses, beds, and borders growing in formal, flower, public, residential, and patio gardens using trellises, arbors, fences, and plant supports. Shapes include giraffe, peacock, dogs, people, spirals, spheres, teddy bears, buffalo, jockey and horse, camel, chair, swan, basket, pyramids, cones, and other geometric forms.
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Series includes images of Variegated foliage in urban, residential, shade, rock, and woodland gardens in containers, beds, and borders.
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Series includes images of winter including snow- and ice-covered fields, ponds, gardens, and woodlands in rural and urban settings with garden ornaments, furniture, paths, and houses.
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United States of America -- Colorado -- Denver -- Denver
Date:
1994 May.
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United States of America -- New York -- Kings -- Brooklyn
Date:
[between 1991 and 2005]
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United States of America -- New York -- Kings -- Brooklyn
Date:
[between 1991 and 2005]
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United States of America -- New York -- Kings -- Brooklyn
Scope and Contents:
Urban Oasis in Vinegar Hill holdings consist of 1 folder (31 transparencies)
General:
In 1979 this 25- by 60-foot urban garden was a dump filled with rubbish and rubble located behind a nearly derelict formerly commercial brick building. The invasive eight-foot tall Japanese knotweed that grew here was hacked down and hauled away along with 20 cubic yards of trash; a venerable privet was maintained. The owner dug down 18 inches, brought in 40 cubic yards of topsoil and five yards of manure and started a vegetable garden. Some of the bricks and rocks he had excavated were used to build a rock garden, waterfall and pool at the shady rear of the yard. Its higher elevation allowed water to run off into irrigation channels for the vegetables. Paving stones found on the property were laid creating five tiers connected by brick or plank steps. The first garden was finished by 1982 but had to be redesigned and rebuilt in 1988. New construction next door had shaded out this garden, and a lawn, except for a small patch of grass in the sunniest spot, was not feasible. Starting behind the house there is a private outdoor shower, ascending to a garden room for dining and entertaining with a brick built-in barbeque, table and chairs. At the next level the former vegetable garden was turned into a more formal ornamental garden with L-shaped beds planted with perennials anchored by a dwarf Japanese maple in the central bed. The irrigation pool was converted to a fish pond and small water garden that drains into an artificial rock-lined creek from which the water recirculates.
Since the site receives very little direct sun and is subject to urban air pollution the owner has found that woodland plants are the most successful. Ground covers have reduced the need for weeding and if it rains once a week the garden does not have to be watered. Ephemeral bulbs start the blooming season in March and the garden remains in bloom for eight or nine months of the year. Flowering ground covers including partridgeberry, wintergreen, bunchberry and myrtle form a tapestry in raised borders filled with topsoil enriched with manure. Wild flowers in the rock garden include trilliums, violets, bloodroot, and Solomon's seal. Shade-tolerant perennials and shrubs, notably hostas, ferns, yews and specimen hemlocks, other hardy perennials including purple coneflowers, bleeding hearts, daylilies, pinks, loosestrife, catmint and Russian sage, and self-sowing cleome and foxglove thrive in this Brooklyn garden.
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Ken Druse garden photography collection
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Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Promoting World Peace and Friendship
Collection Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Introduction:
More than 200,000 Peace Corps volunteers have served in 139 countries since 1961, when the agency was established by Executive Order 10924. Signed by President Kennedy on March 1, 1961, the two-page Executive Order simply established "an agency in the Department of State which shall be known as the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps shall be headed by a Director." That person, appointed by Kennedy three days later, was Sargent Shriver, his brother-in-law. The U.S. Congress made it official on September 22, 1961, by authorizing the Peace Corps Act and appropriating $30 million for the new agency's first annual budget. The very first paragraph of the Act declares that the Peace Corps should "promote world peace and friendship" through three interrelated goals:
to help the people of interested countries meet their needs for trained workers;
to help the people in those countries better understand Americans; and
to help Americans better understand the people in those countries where Peace Corps volunteers are serving.
Half a century later, the annual federal appropriation had reached a high of $400 million in Fiscal Year 2010, but the three goals of the Peace Corps, its Congressional mandate, and its commitment to building world peace and friendship have never changed.
The 2011 Festival was pleased to host - and recognize - the Peace Corps volunteers who have served the organization since its founding fifty years ago. The Festival program built upon previous Folklife Festival programs that have examined occupational and organizational traditions. At the Festival, these occupational and organizational groups have each demonstrated their own sets of skills, specialized knowledge, and codes of behavior that not only distinguish them from other occupational groups but also meet their needs as a community. The fiftieth anniversary of the Peace Corps in 2011 provided a wonderful opportunity for understanding and appreciating its organizational and occupational cultures.
The Peace Corps program at the 2011 Festival brought together Peace Corps volunteers - both past and present - with roughly one hundred of the people with whom they have served from more than a dozen countries around the world in order to promote a greater understanding of world cultures. Together, volunteers and collaborating communities demonstrated to Festival visitors the experience and accomplishments of Peace Corps volunteers around the world. But they also looked forward: as the Peace Corps moves into its next fifty years, the inequities that existed half a century ago - poverty, disease, illiteracy, and hunger - still loom large in much of our world, often exacerbated by such contemporary challenges as climate change and HIV and AIDS. And as Festival visitors were reminded, the need for world peace and friendship is certainly as important today as it was fifty years ago.
James Deutsch was Curator; Jason Bowers was Program Coordinator; and Kim Stryker was Family Activities Coordinator. The Peace Corps Curatorial Advisory Committee included: Randy Adams, Shilpa Alimchandani, Marjorie Anctil, Anne Baker, Daniel Baker, Lenny Bankester, Lynette Bouchie, Karen Chaput, Kristen Fernekes, Angela Glenn, Carrie Hessler-Radelet, Lynn Kneedler, Nicole Lewis, Bob Michon, Jody Olsen, Kirsten Radewagen, Amber Smigiel, Frank Smith, Shelley Swendiman, and Lori Wallace. Kristen Fernekes was Program Manager for the Peace Corps and Chris Lisi was Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Director.
The program was produced in partnership with the Peace Corps. Major Donor support came from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. UPS Foundation was a Contributor to the program.
Shelia Slemp, 1972-, Peace Corps Volunteer (Ukraine)
UNITED STATES - Peace Corps World Map Project
Barbara Jo White, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Dominican Republic), Cullowhee, North Carolina
UNITED STATES - Trees, Water & People
Sebastian Africano, 1977-, Fort Collins, Colorado
Stuart Conway, 1953-, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Guatemala), Fort Collins, Colorado
Claudia Menendez, 1977-, Fort Collins, Colorado
ZAMBIA - appropriate technology
Henry Chilufya, 1967-, Lusaka, Zambia
Kofi Taha, 1970-, Watertown, Massachusetts
Alexandra Chen, 1986-, Peace Corps Volunteer (Zambia)
Elizabeth Spellman, 1985-, returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Zambia), Woburn, Massachusetts
Collection Restrictions:
Access by appointment only. Where a listening copy or viewing copy has been created, this is indicated in the respective inventory; additional materials may be accessible with sufficient advance notice and, in some cases, payment of a processing fee. Older papers are housed at a remote location and may require a minimum of three weeks' advance notice and payment of a retrieval fee. Certain formats such as multi-track audio recordings and EIAJ-1 videoreels (1/2 inch) may not be accessible. Contact the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at 202-633-7322 or rinzlerarchives@si.edu for additional information.
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Copyright and other restrictions may apply. Generally, materials created during a Festival are covered by a release signed by each participant permitting their use for personal and educational purposes; materials created as part of the fieldwork leading to a Festival may be more restricted. We permit and encourage such personal and educational use of those materials provided digitally here, without special permissions. Use of any materials for publication, commercial use, or distribution requires a license from the Archives. Licensing fees may apply in addition to any processing fees.
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
on back: a description of the public garden. [on back: caption in 6 languages]
General:
Historic Image #: 6
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Historic Image #: 1597.
Stamped on verso: O. J. Vail [photographer?].
Label on verson: KB [Kilburn Brothers?].
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Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
