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A Manual of Texas Flora (open access)

A Manual of Texas Flora

Manuscript for botany students describing 98 families of plants in Texas including 341 genera and 774 species. The book is organized into four parts: 1// Key to the Families, pages 1-100; 2// [Mustard] Family -- Flax Family, pages 101-150 and Flax Family -- Evening Primrose Family (Guara), pages 151-200; 3// Potato Family -- Madder Family (Galium), pages 251-300 and Evening Primrose Family (Guara) -- Solanaceae Pers. Potato Family, pages 201-250; 4// Honey Suckle Family -- Composite XVI. (Leptilon), pages 301-350 (First Part) and Composite XVI. (Leptilon) -- End, pages 351-383 (Second Part) with General Index of Latin Names, pages L1-L7, English Index, Including Popular Plant Names, pages E1-E6, and Glossary, pages G1-G11.
Date: August 28, 1916
Creator: Ruth, Albert
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1945-1946] (open access)

[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1945-1946]

Scrapbook for the Fort Worth Garden Club documenting activities, including newspaper clippings, photographs, event programs, correspondence, and other items.
Date: 1945/1946
Creator: Fort Worth Garden Club
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1952-1953] (open access)

[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1952-1953]

Scrapbook for the Fort Worth Garden Club documenting activities, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, event programs, maps, photographs, and other items.
Date: 1952/1953
Creator: Fort Worth Garden Club
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1979-1980] (open access)

[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1979-1980]

Scrapbook for the Fort Worth Garden Club documenting activities, including event invitations, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other items.
Date: 1979/1980
Creator: Fort Worth Garden Club
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1954-1960] (open access)

[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1954-1960]

Scrapbook for the Fort Worth Garden Club documenting activities, including newspaper clippings, event programs, certificates, and other ephemera.
Date: 1954/1960
Creator: Fort Worth Garden Club
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1951-1952] (open access)

[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1951-1952]

Scrapbook for the Fort Worth Garden Club documenting activities, including newspaper clippings, certificates, event programs, photographs, and other items.
Date: 1951/1952
Creator: Fort Worth Garden Club
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Yellow-flowered Asteraceae growing out of sand

Photograph of a yellow-flowered plant in the Asteraceae family, or the sunflower or daisy family, species unknown. The flowers grew in a white sandy area 1 mile north of Bullsbrook, Western Australia.
Date: October 23, 1962
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Leonard Courtyard Gathering]

Photograph of a gathering of people at the Leonard Courtyard in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A fountain, partially surrounded by purple flowers on the left, is prominently placed in the foreground. Across the picture, people are scattered, most walking across the courtyard and holding conversations with one another. The background shows dense, fully-grown trees.
Date: [1986..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Leonard Courtyard in Daytime]

Photograph of the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Foliage covers the bottom of the frame, obscuring the bottom half of a low, round fountain. Along the courtyard, there are three elevated concrete beds, each planted with yellow flowers around a single slim tree. The concrete path leads directly to the Fuller Garden, which is partially obscured by trees in the background.
Date: [1986..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Leonard Courtyard, Looking Northeast]

Photograph of the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Multiple people are visible walking under a gabled roof, part of a building prominently featured in the background. Along the courtyard are trees planted on elevated concrete beds, surrounded on all sides by pink flowers. There are additional patches of pink flowers in the background and the foreground, bordering the concrete courtyard. At the edge of the courtyard, a stone path embedded in the grass leads into the foreground.
Date: [1986..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Leonard Courtyard Fountain #1]

Photograph of a low, round fountain in the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, viewed from beneath an overhang with open, wooden rafters. Red and white flowers are planted around the fountain and left. and other plants are visible in the beds along the walkways. In the upper part of the image, a cross-gabled roof is partially visible with a pointed glass greenhouse roof farther in the background.
Date: [1986..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Leonard Courtyard Fountain #2]

Photograph of a low, round fountain in the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, viewed from beneath an overhang with open, wooden rafters. Red and white flowers are planted around the fountain and left. and other plants are visible in the beds along the walkways. In the upper part of the image, a cross-gabled roof is partially visible with a pointed glass greenhouse roof faintly visible in the background.
Date: [1986..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Leonard Courtyard Flower Beds]

Photograph of three raised, square stone flower beds separated by walkways in the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Each of the flower beds has a slim, bare tree in the center surrounded by red and yellow flowers. Three wooden benches are arranged at the edge of the beds, facing an open area at left, where there is an outdoor dining table. A veranda under a stone building is visible behind the dining area, and a wooden fence bordered by trees is visible along the right side of the image.
Date: [1986..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Beggs Courtyard, Looking Northeast]

Photograph of the Beggs Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Looking northeast, a white building with tall glass windows partially flanks the courtyard. Angled, raised flower beds with shrubbery and slim trees are visible. A bed of red flowers lines the northern edge of the courtyard along the building. The Fort Worth skyline is faintly visible in the background behind dense tree coverage.
Date: [1986..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Botanic Garden Entry Sign]

Photograph of the eastern entrance sign to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The structure contains two lamps on either ends; along the center, the text "Fort Worth Botanic Garden" is displayed in black serif signage. On either edge of the text are fountains with four water outlets pouring into a concrete pool. In the foreground of the image is a patch of red roses; in the background, a large tree.
Date: [1986..]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Japanese Garden Pond Construction #1]

Photograph of construction work in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Wire mesh is laid out along a large empty dirt basin lined with stones, lumber, buckets, a wheelbarrow, and a large truck with a concrete pump and a cylindrical concrete mixer. Multiple workers are seen in the basin and on the truck.
Date: 1971-01~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Close-up of an emu]

Close-up photograph of an emu standing by a tree. The emu looks to the right side of the photo.
Date: 1962
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Carlquist Field Book #1] (open access)

[Carlquist Field Book #1]

Handwritten field notebook documenting... including item numbers, descriptions, and locations by date. {{{or adjust, as appropriate}}}
Date: unknown
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Close-up photograph of a Danaea nodosa stem cross-section, 1]

Close-up photograph of a cross-section of the stem of the fern Danaea nodosa. This photograph was taken in the Maricao Forest of Puerto Rico.
Date: June 20, 1969
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Close-up photograph of a Danaea nodosa stem cross-section, 2]

Close-up photograph of a cross-section of the stem of Danaea nodosa, a tropical fern. This photograph was taken in the Maricao Forest of Puerto Rico.
Date: June 20, 1969
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Close-up photograph of a cross-section of a Danaea nodosa stem, 3]

Close-up photograph of a cross-section of the stem of Danaea nodosa. This photograph was taken in the Maricao Forest of Puerto Rico.
Date: June 20, 1969
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Close-up of unidentified leaves, buds, and fruit, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico]

Close-up photograph of the fruits, flower buds, and leaves of an unidentified plant growing in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. The plant's more developed fruits are red, and green undeveloped fruits appear on the same branch below. Yellow-white buds are featured on the bottom right.
Date: 1969-06-20~
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Sonchus platylepis growing on rocky cliff]

Habit photograph of common sow thistle, scientific name Sonchus platylepis, growing on the side of a rocky cliff. The plant is pictured in the foreground, and its flowers are yellow and its leaves serrated. Behind the plant to the right, there is a noticeable absence of light.
Date: May 8, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Echium pininana leaning to the left]

Photograph of a tree echium plant, scientific name Echium pininana, growing in the Canary Islands. The plant leans slightly to the left.
Date: June 16, 1967
Creator: Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History