United States of America -- Louisiana -- Orleans Parish -- New Orleans
Scope and Contents:
2 folders and 11 35mm slides and 10 digital images. Images 001-011 photographed by Vaughn L. Banting. Images 012 and 19-020 photographed by Flora French. Images 013-018 and 021 copyrighted by Tina Freedman.
General:
This formal garden on a small urban lot has grown but not changed since it was designed in 1974 and 1977. The old brick walls built by the owner's father circa 1940 are visible through the trunks of cherry laurel. Geometric rows of trimmed hedges include white and salmon azaleas, white camellias, and the lowest row of dwarf boxwood with brick edging softened by mondo grass. There is a ribbon of color between the hedges that is changed out seasonally, with apricot tulips, pink and white Angelonia or white vinca. Four antique French statues of musical cherubs have been raised on plinths with apricot hybrid tea roses and white hawthorn shrubs filling the gap between hedges. Two lion head wall fountains continually spray into a curving pool painted dark charcoal. A large Japanese magnolia planted in the 1950's, holly fern, fatsia, wood iris, ligularia, and containers with boxwood balls and trailing white vinca soften the brick hardscape. On one side of the garden the rows of hedges were planted in a serpentine curve, departing from the strict linear pattern. Other than needed replacements and changing out the rows of seasonal plants the owner intends to keep the garden very much the same.
Persons associated with the garden include: Mr. and Mrs. Emile Kuntz (former owners, 1938-1973); Mr. and Mrs. Carlo Capomazza (owners, 1973- ); Rene Gelpi (architect, date unknown); Dorothy (Baby) Hardie (landscape architect, 1974); Vaughn Banting (landscape designer, 1977); Franklin Andira (gardener, 2008- ).
Collection Restrictions:
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
United States of America -- Louisiana -- Ouachita County -- Monroe
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, plant list, and written interview with the owner.
General:
Boxwood Court is named for its more than 250 clipped boxwoods that fill the entrance garden for the English cottage style house originally built in 1926, with two recent additions. The property, which is less than one acre, has been owned by members of one family for more than 70 years. A pierced brick wall that surrounds the property and a live oak tree (affectionately named 'Rachel') planted in 1942 are the remaining features of earlier gardens that have been restored. The boxwoods are clipped into mounds of differing sizes and contrast with the ferns and ground covers planted nearby. A custom made Chippendale style gate opens onto a walkway to the smaller formal back garden, where a Japanese maple tree grows in each of the four corners of the geometrically laid out, brick-edged borders. A brick fish pond fed by three spigots is on one side, and on the other side there is a patio with a barbeque grill set into a brick wall. Azaleas, hydrangeas and camellias are planted in this section of the garden and an antique urn in front of a camellia screen is filled with seasonal plantings. Other plants in this garden include southern magnolia and confederate jasmine for fragrance.
Whimsical elements include two sculpted concrete chairs reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland and the turtle stepping stone path into the back garden. A pierced ironwork gate separates the driveway from another paved terrace with planted containers and a hedge of holly trimmed into poles.
Persons associated with the garden include Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Monk (former owners, 1927-1931); Dr. and Mrs. Arthur James Emerson (former owners, 1932-1976); Mrs. Jesse Emerson McDonald (former owner, 1976-1986); William L. Mattison (architect, 1984); Lee Harrison Ledbetter (architect, 1997); Brian Sawyer (landscape architect, 1997).
Related Materials:
Boxwood Court related holdings consist of 1 folder (17 35mm slides)
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
The Friersons' Hidden Retreat (New Orleans, Louisiana)
United States of America -- Louisiana -- Orleans Parish -- New Orleans
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, historical photographs and photocopies of articles.
General:
A city property measuring 90 by 120 feet with a Georgian style house built in the 1920's has formal garden rooms that fulfill the owners' principle requirements: privacy with a sense of enclosure, year-round color and fragrance, and visibility of the garden from every room in the house. An open side yard visible from the street was enclosed behind a brick wall draped in confederate jasmine with hedges on three sides that include camellia, azalea, cleyera, sweet osmanthus and boxwood, bulbs and annuals. The lawn of St. Augustine grass, called a tapis vert, terminates in a brick courtyard with a Palladian style fountain and four garden beds. A guest house was added to the property in the back corner, with its own patio and Japanese maple trees. Directly behind the main house there is a secret garden containing an antique fountain surrounded by four cherubs that represent the four seasons and shaded by mature camellias that have grown as tall as small trees. A kitchen garden for herbs has the necessary utilitarian features: garden sheds, a small greenhouse and a potting table.
Urns, window boxes, other containers and hanging baskets sited throughout the garden are planted with flowering shrubs and annuals for year-round color. An enormous antique urn that is a family heirloom was fitted into the Palladian fountain and planted with witch hazel. White and cool tones are favored, with some pink flowers for contrast. Old New Orleans soft red brick was used for the patios and walkways that connect the garden rooms, initially designed by landscape architect René J.L. Fransen. A formal knot garden with planted urns is situated in front of the house, visible to all.
Persons associated with the garden include: Esmond Phelps, Sr. (former owner, 1927); Robert Reisfields (former owner, 1971); Charles Armstrong and Richard Koch (architects, 1927); Douglas Freret (architect, 1971); Baby Hardie (garden designer, 1971); René J.L. Fransen (landscape architect, 1980); Barry Fox (architect, 1980); and Marianne Mumford (landscape architect, 2002).
Related Materials:
The Friersons' Hidden Retreat related holdings consist of 1 folder (21 digital images, 3 photographic prints)
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
United States of America -- Louisiana -- Ouachita County -- Monroe
Date:
2003 Oct.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
The Friersons' Hidden Retreat (New Orleans, Louisiana)
United States of America -- Louisiana -- Orleans Parish -- New Orleans
Date:
2012 Mar.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
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.
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
United States of America -- Mississippi -- Madison County -- Ridgeland
Scope and Contents:
1 folder and 23 digital images. The folder includes worksheets and photocopies of articles.
General:
In 2003 the Italian style house on a zero lot line property of less than one acre was purchased and since the owners were avid gardeners they planted vegetable and ornamental gardens. Deer and other wildlife came in from nearby woods and ate whatever was growing. The adjacent lot was vacant and could not be built on due to a gas line running through it. The owners purchased that lot in 2010, hired landscape architect Carter Brown, and created a New Orleans style garden with a vegetable, herb and flower potager. Discreet rebar fencing encloses the potager which provides an abundance of produce and has a conversation and fire pit in one corner. A paved courtyard behind the house was enlarged to contain a new lap pool as well as patio seating. The original property had mature oak and pine trees, and the new planting scheme included many typically southern trees and shrubs such as crape myrtle, cypress, magnolia, sasanqua, camellia, cleyera, and oleaster.
Sinuous crushed limestone paths bordered with lush banks of liriope separate ornamental beds from the zoysia grass lawn and continue through the potager. The entrance garden is shaded so is planted with ferns, palmetto palm, azaleas, hosta, and hydrangea; the walkway leads to a garden swing opposite a birdbath. A sunny bed against the stucco courtyard wall has zinnias and elephant ears in summer, a redbud, boxwood and hydrangea, and a large fountain basin. Antique Italian double doors provide an entrance from the garden, and additional doors made from old iron fencing separate the courtyard from the service area and driveway. The potager has a statue of St. Francis of Assisi ringed with seasonal flowers. The vegetable beds contain lettuces, kale and celery in winter and tomatoes, okra, green beans and cucumbers grown on tuteurs, as well as eggplant, squash, and bell peppers in summer. Run-off at the south end of the property is controlled by plantings of cypress and Louisiana iris.
Persons associated with the garden include Carter Brown (landscape architect, 2009).
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
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.
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
Photographs relating to archeology, most of which were made by Bureau of American Ethnology photographers and ethnologists. Much of the collection consists of photographs by Cosmos and Victor Mindeleff of Southwest pueblos. Images depict mounds and excavations (including Grant Mound in Pennsylvania and additional mounds in West Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana, and elsewhere); Hopi Sipaulovi village; petroglyphs in Wind River, Wyoming; ancient artifacts; Standing Rock; Tohono O'odham Indians; Canyon de Chelly; and Clear Creek. Photographers represented include John K. Hillers; C. H. Bryan of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky; the Mindeleff brothers; Henry Bascom Collins; L. C. Rennick; J. W. Milner; Hattons Studio in Lansing, Michigan; and a drawing by W. A. Rogers.
Collection may contain images of human remains.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 28
Location of Other Archival Materials:
William Dinwiddie photographs documenting Papago Indians, previously filed in Photo Lot 28, have been relocated to National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 89.
Additional Mindeleff photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 4362, Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 78, and the BAE historical negatives.
Additional Hillers photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 143, Photo Lot 83-18, Photo Lot 87-2N, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 92-46, and the BAE historical negatives.
Additional Collins photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 82-23, Photo Lot 86-42, Photo Lot 86-43, and Photo Lot 86-59.
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Photograph collection relating to archeology, burial mounds, and the Southwest, 1880s-1920s
Photo Lot 28, Bureau of American Ethnology photograph collection relating to archeology and burial mounds, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs.
Scope and Contents:
These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard University and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs.
The papers have been divided into three general categories: the papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher, the papers of Francis La Flesche, and the ethnographic research of Fletcher and La Flesche. The first two categories represent personal and professional materials of Fletcher and La Flesche. The third section holds the majority of the ethnographic material in the collection.
Of primary concern are Fletcher and La Flesche's ethnological investigations conducted among the Plains Indians, particularly the Omaha and Osage. Fletcher's Pawnee field research and her allotment work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs among the Omaha, Nez Perce, and Winnebago are represented in the collection. A substantial portion of the ethnographic material reflects Fletcher and La Flesche's studies of Native American music. Much of the correspondence in the papers of Fletcher and La Flesche is rich with information about the situation of Omaha peoples in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Also included in the collection are documents related to Fletcher's work with the Archaeological Institute of America and the School for American Archaeology. Additionally, substantial amounts of Fletcher's early anthropological and historical research are found among her correspondence, lectures, anthropological notes, and early field diaries. La Flesche's literary efforts are also generously represented.
Arrangement:
The collection is divided into the following 3 series: 1) Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers, 1873-1925; 2) Francis La Flesche papers, 1881-1930; 3) Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, 1877-1939.
Series 1: Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers is divided into the following 10 subseries: 1.1) Incoming correspondence, 1874-1923 (bulk 1882-1923); 1.2) Outgoing correspondence, 1873-1921; 1.3) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1925; 1.4) Correspondence between Fletcher and La Flesche, 1895-1922; 1.5) Publications, 1882-1920; 1.6) Organizational records, 1904-1921; 1.7) General anthropological notes, undated; 1.8) Lectures, circa 1878-1910; 1.9) Diaries, 1881-1922; 1.10) Biography and memorabilia, 1878-1925.
Series 2: Francis La Flesche papers is divided into the following 6 subseries: 2.11) General correspondence, 1890-1929; 2.12) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1930; 2.13) Publications, 1900-1927; 2.14) Literary efforts, undated; 2.15) Personal diaries, 1883-1924; 2.16) Biography and memorabilia, 1886-1930.
Series 3: Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche is divided into the following 12 subseries: 3.17) Alaska, 1886-1887; 3.18) Earth lodges, 1882, 1898-1899; 3.19) Music, 1888-1918; 3.20) Nez Perce, 1889-1909; 3.21) Omaha, 1882-1922; 3.22) Osage, 1896-1939; 3.23) Pawnee, 1897-1910; 3.24) Pipes, undated; 3.25) Sioux, 1877-1896; 3.26) Other tribes, 1882-1922; 3.27) Publications collected, 1884-1905, undated; 3.28) Photographs, undated.
Biographical / Historical:
Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923) was an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Francis La Flesche (1856-1923) was an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Chronology of the Life of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
1838 March 15 -- Born in Havana, Cuba
1873-1876 -- Secretary, American Association for Advancement of Women
1879 -- Informal student of anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University
1881 -- Field trip to Omaha and Rosebud Agencies
1882 -- Assistant in ethnology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University
1882 -- Helped secure land in severalty to Omaha Indians
1882-1883 -- Begins collaboration with Francis La Flesche on the Peabody Museum's collection of Omaha and Sioux artifacts
1883-1884 -- Special Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Omaha Agency
1886 -- Bureau of Education investigation of Alaskan native education
1887-1888 -- Special Disbursing Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Winnebago Agency
1889-1892 -- Special Agent for allotment, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Nez Perce Agency
1890-1899 -- President, Women's Anthropological Society of America
1891-1923 -- Mary Copley Thaw Fellow, Peabody Museum, Harvard University
1892-1893 -- Department of Interior consultant, World's Columbian Exposition
1896 -- Vice-President, Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1897 -- Collaborator, Bureau of American Ethnology
1899-1916 -- Editorial board, American Anthropologist
1900 -- Published Indian Story and Song from North America
1901-1902 -- Advisory committee, Anthropology Department, University of California at Berkeley
1903 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington
1904 -- Published The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony with James Murie
1908-1913 -- Chair, Managing Committee of School of American Archaeology
1911 -- Honorary Vice-President, Section H, British Association for Advancement of Science
1911 -- Published The Omaha Tribe with Francis La Flesche
1913 -- Chair Emeritus, Managing Committee of School of American Archaeology
1915 -- Published Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs Arranged from American Indian Ceremonials and Sports
1923 April 6 -- Died in Washington, D.C.
Chronology of the Life of Francis La Flesche
1857 December 25 -- Born on Omaha Reservation near Macy, Nebraska
1879 -- Lecture tour, Ponca chief Standing Bear
1881 -- Interpreter, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
1881-1910 -- Clerk, Bureau of Indian Affairs
1891 -- Informally adopted as Fletcher's son
1892 -- LL.B., National University Law School
1893 -- LL.M., National University Law School
1900 -- Published The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School
1906-1908 -- Marriage to Rosa Bourassa
1910-1929 -- Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology
1911 -- Published The Omaha Tribe with Alice Fletcher
1921 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part One
1922 -- Member, National Academy of Sciences
1922-1923 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington
1925 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part Two
1926 -- Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Nebraska
1928 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part Three
1932 -- Published Dictionary of the Osage Language
1932 September 5 -- Died in Thurston County, Nebraska
1939 -- Posthumous publication of War Ceremony and Peace Ceremony of the Osage Indians
Related Materials:
Additional material related to the professional work of Fletcher and La Flesche in the National Anthropological Archives may be found among the correspondence of the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) and the records of the Anthropological Society of Washington.
Sound recordings made by Fletcher and La Flesche can be found at the Library of Congress. The National Archives Records Administration hold the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), including those relating to allotments in severalty for the Nez Perce by Alice Fletcher. The Nebraska Historical Society has diaries, letters and clippings regarding the La Flesche family, including correspondence of Francis La Flesche and Fletcher. The Radcliffe College Archives holds a manuscript account of Alice Fletcher's four summers with the Nez Perce (1889-1892). Correspondence between Fletcher and F. W. Putnam is also located at the Peabody Museum Archives of Harvard University.
Separated Materials:
Ethnographic photographs from the collection have been catalogued by tribe in Photo Lot 24.
Glass plate negatives from the collection have been catalogued by tribe in the BAE glass negatives collection (Negative Numbers 4439-4515).
Provenance:
The papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche have been received from an undocumented number of sources. Portions of Fletcher's ethnographic papers were donated to the archives by Mrs. G. David Pearlman in memory of her husband in 1959.
Restrictions:
The Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers are open for research.
Access to the Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers requires an appointment.
2 Volumes (Volume 1 xii + 1-366; Volume 2 x + 367-748)
Type:
Archival materials
Volumes
Printed material
Place:
Texas -- Antiquities
Oklahoma -- Antiquities
Arkansas -- Antiquities
Louisiana -- Antiquities
Gulf Coastal Plain -- Texas -- archeology
Gulf Coastal Plain -- Arkansas -- Archeology
Gulf Coastal Plain -- Louisiana -- Archeology
Gulf Coastal Plain -- Oklahoma -- Archeology
Date:
1990
Scope and Contents:
Volume 1 consists of introduction, environmental setting, previous investigations, bioarcheology, and cultural history of Native Americans; Volume 2 consists of culture history of Europeans, bioarcheology synthesis, adaptation types and appendices
Restrictions:
Item in off site storage. Contact archives for information on availability.
Collection Rights:
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Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Archeological And Historical Research on Avoca Plantation: Testing of Site 16 SMY 130 and Survey of Proposed Borrow Areas for EABPL Item E-96, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
