[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

[Rock Springs Garden Center East Side, 1944 #1]

Photograph of the Rock Springs Garden Center building from the east side at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Taken in 1944, the building has a curved arch entrance, two narrow windows on both sides of the entrance, and a glasshouse part of the building at left. Shrubs adorn the front of the house, and the entire structure is nested around trees.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rock Springs Stream]

Photograph of a stream near the Rock Springs area in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The stream flows along large, flattened boulders and short grasses into a small pond. Foliage is visible across the background.
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lower Rose Garden with Pool #2]

Photograph of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. At center is the "rose ramp", a wide rectangular set rose arrangements bordered with short hedges and lined with concrete steps along both sides. Above the "rose ramp" are a set of stairs leading to a raised platform containing a wide pavilion containing square colonnades on both ends of the structure and a trapezoidal roof. Below the "rose ramp" is the lower portion of the rose garden, partially obscured by bushes. Along the bottom of the image is the rose garden's small lake, lined with grass and trees and covered in lily pads and leaves. The pavilion and the rose ramp are visible in the water's reflection.
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Rock Springs Garden Center East Side, 1944 #2]

Photograph of the Rock Springs Garden Center building from the east side at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Taken in 1944, the building has a curved arch entrance, two narrow windows on both sides of the entrance, and a glasshouse part of the building at left. Shrubs adorn the front of the house, and the entire structure is nested around trees.
Date: 1944
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Lower Rose Garden, Facing North, 1940]

Photograph of the eastern portion of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. At left is a rectangular reflecting pond with small flower beds containing pink bushes and round shrubs on each corner surrounded by a concrete footpath. On the corners of the garden, displayed at right, are arrangements of grass paths both containing several curved metal arches arranged in squares with drooping rose bushes. Multiple beds of roses are arranged throughout this portion of the garden, which is bordered with a latticed wooden barrier sitting on a short wall of stone bricks and rectangular hedges. Multiple observers are visible walking around the garden.
Date: 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History