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[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: 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
[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: 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: 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
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
[Arid and Wildflower Garden]
Photograph of the arid and wildflower garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Depicted is a small opening among a background of dense trees where tall grasses, shrubs, and some cacti are grown. A small family of four in the background walks along the field, observing their surroundings.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Autumn" Statue, Four Seasons Garden]
Photograph of a statue titled "Autumn" in the Four Seasons Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Taken in front of a field of flowers, the statue depicts a young girl with a headdress observing a large butterfly sitting on her left hand.
Date:
unknown
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
[Beggs Courtyard, Looking Northwest]
Photograph of the Beggs Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Looking northwest, a white building with tall glass windows is partially visible flanking the courtyard on the right half of the image. Angled, raised flower beds with white flowers, shrubbery, and skinny flowering trees are visible. A wall along the upper part of the image contains more plant beds and a gate partially obscured by leaves.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Bench" Sculpture]
Photograph of "Bench", a limestone sculpture by Cameron Schoepp in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The piece, sitting on a concrete slab in a grass field, consists of an uneven, rectangular limestone slab suspended by pillars with ends shaped like bullets that penetrate through the slab and jut out above.
Date:
1999
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
["Birth of Love" Sculpture]
Photograph of "Birth of Love", a bronze sculpture by Michael Pavlovsky at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The piece consists of a bronze ring sitting on a trapezoidal base with two figures, one male and the other female, carved into the left and right side of the ring, respectively. The figures outstretch their arms to a pair of doves above them and are surrounded by flourishes depicting flowers, shells, branches, and leaves. The sculpture is located atop a concrete base in an open field of grass, a tree visible in the right background.
Date:
[2001..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden Alternate Plan]
Photograph of a plan for the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. It includes an unrealized layout for the Garden Center and adjoining garden areas, footpaths, and exhibits. Text on the map is blurry and mostly illegible. The plan presumably seems to place the Garden Center along Rock Springs Road, with a rectangular garden built to the north on the current location of the Japanese Garden.
Date:
[..1986]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden Bench]
Photograph of a wooden garden bench in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. It sits along a curved path in front of several bushes and trees.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden Center]
Photograph of the Garden Center and Conservatory at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The Garden Center, at center, is a white rectangular building. The Conservatory, visible at left, is a large glass greenhouse with a sloped glass roof. The entry sign also at left, made of stone bricks and lined with pink bushes, reads "BOTANIC GARDEN CENTER AND CONSERVATORY".
Date:
[1986..1990]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden Entrance]
Photograph of the eastern entrance to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The entrance sign, containing the text "Fort Worth Botanic Garden" and several fountain fixtures, is visible at left. To its right is part of the road that leads into the botanical garden, towards the Garden Center and its greenhouse. Patches of yellow flowers and shrubs are in front of the entrance sign and the right half of the image, several feet away from the road.
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
[Botanic Garden Flower Field #1]
Photograph of a field of orange tulips and yellow flowers at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Several white flowers are also scattered at right. Trees are located across the picture.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden Flower Field #2]
Photograph of a flower arrangement in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The flowers are varied in color and are arranged in a circle. Taller yellow flowers sit behind a tier of multicolored shrubs. Trees are visible across the background.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden Footpath]
Photograph of a concrete footpath in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Shapes of leaves and animal tracks are embossed into the curving footpath.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden Grove]
Photograph of a grove in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A wide concrete path is visible at right center. Trees and bushes are scattered across the field.
Date:
[..1984-04]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden Hill, Construction Work]
Photograph of construction work at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A grass path is visible at right, with several large dirt mounds on the side of the path. A large hill containing several tall grasses is visible at left, with a construction crane placed behind a makeshift fence at the top of the hill.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden Library Rededication]
Photograph of the rededication of the library in the Rock Springs Center at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, taking place in the Fragrance Garden. A woman, identified as Deborah Moncrief, stands at a podium giving a speech in front of the Rock Springs Center building, the library window, and a small statue of a cherub. At left are two men identified as Henry Painter and Richard Zavala, and at right is a woman identified as Joyce Capper.
Date:
April 19, 1996
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden North Entrance Sign Construction]
Photograph of the northern entrance sign at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden under construction. Numerous gardeners and workers dig in front of the entrance sign, which reads in black serif font "FORT WORTH BOTANIC GARDEN". Rocks, plants, and shrubs are arranged in front of the sign. At center, a young boy is visible with a tool assisting with the landscaping. The W. R. Watt Arena is visible in the background at left.
Date:
April 23, 1998
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History