The image was taken in summer after the irises had bloomed.
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United States of America -- New Jersey -- Morris County -- Chester
Date:
1994 June
Collection Restrictions:
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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.
1 Photographic print (black-and-white, 9.5 x 7.5 in.)
1 Contact print (black-and-white, 2 x 2 in.)
1 Safety film negative (black-and-white, 2 x 2 in.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Contact prints
Safety film negative
Safety film negatives
Place:
Carpenter Garden (Far Hills, New Jersey)
United States of America -- New Jersey -- Somerset County -- Far Hills
Date:
[between 1959 and 1973]
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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1 Photographic print (black-and-white, 9.25 x 7.25 in.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Place:
Carpenter Garden (Far Hills, New Jersey)
United States of America -- New Jersey -- Somerset County -- Far Hills
Date:
[between 1959 and 1973]
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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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.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Ken Druse garden photography collection
Sponsor:
Cataloging of this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
Series includes images of Architecture such as dwellings, music halls, religious buildings, shops, barns, green houses, windmills, public works, garden houses, and a biosphere, through street front, courtyard, and backyard views in city, beach, rural, suburban, and waterfront settings in all seasons. In addition to details of molding, aches, windows, roofs, doorways, structural elements; outdoor seating areas, landscaping around dwellings, cemeteries, shop windows, cottage gardens, fences, courtyard planting, solar panels, cattle guards, marquees, urns, foundation plantings, public spaces, and bodies of water are also emphasized. Plants in the images include turfgrasses, tulips, Verbascum, trees, hedges, climbing plants, ivy, palms, violets, roses, hydrangeas, peonies, mixed bed plantings with daisies, petunia, yarrow, echinacea, begonias, ground cover, geraniums, boxwood, alliums, and ornamental grasses.
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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Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Photographs Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Ken Druse garden photography collection
Sponsor:
Cataloging of this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
Home of George Maher, Architect (Kenilworth, Illinois)
United States of America -- Illinois -- Cook -- Kenilworth
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, garden plan and plant list, correspondence, and photocopies of images.
General:
Architect George Maher designed the house with Arts and Crafts influences in 1893 for his family, and had the garden designed by his friend and colleague Jens Jensen. Only the white pine in the front yard and a burr oak in the back yard remain from the Jensen landscape. An island bed of pachysandra and ferns surround the pine. A rose garden with heirloom and modern roses was planted circa 1990. Trellises with climbing roses, porcelain vines and trumpet vines were placed against the house and porch. The foundations plantings include hydrangeas, boxwoods and mature perennials. The pink brick walk to the front door was bordered by beds of perennials.
Persons associated with the garden include George W.(1864-1926) and Elizabeth Maher and Violet Wyld (architect and former owners, 1893-circa 1987; Chris Dreher (former owner, 1987-1988); Wild family (former owners, 1988-1989); Jens Jensen(1860-1951) (landscape architect, 1893-1895); Chalet Garden Design (garden designers, 1988), Jane Mueller and Mark Marcus, Private Gardens, Public Places (garden designers, 2000); Deidre E. Toner, ASLA (landscape architect, 2011).
Varying Form:
Foradas Garden, also known as.
Related Materials:
Home of George Maher, Architect related holdings consist of 1 folder (25 35 mm 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:
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, Ken Druse garden photography collection
Sponsor:
Cataloging of this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
Home of George Maher, Architect (Kenilworth, Illinois)
United States of America -- Illinois -- Cook -- Kenilworth
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:
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, Ken Druse garden photography collection
Sponsor:
Cataloging of this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
Home of George Maher, Architect (Kenilworth, Illinois)
United States of America -- Illinois -- Cook -- Kenilworth
Date:
2003 Sep.
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, Ken Druse garden photography collection
Sponsor:
Cataloging of this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
United States of America -- New York -- Nassau -- Glen Cove
Date:
2003 Sep.
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, Ken Druse garden photography collection
Sponsor:
Cataloging of this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
United States of America -- Rhode Island -- Newport -- Little Compton
Date:
1998 Jul.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
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Topic:
Gardens -- Rhode Island -- Little Compton Search this
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Ken Druse garden photography collection
Sponsor:
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Series includes images of Elymus, commonly called Wild Rye, in detail and growing in a garden border with a fence and arbor, and accompanied by purple and yellow flowers, such as Hydrangeas, Verbenas, Daisies and Campsis.
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, Ken Druse garden photography collection
Sponsor:
Cataloging of this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
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, Ken Druse garden photography collection
Sponsor:
Cataloging of this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
