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[Japanese Garden Concrete Slab]
Photograph of a finished concrete slab in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. Several metal clamps are visible at right, near stacks of lumber.
Date:
1970-09~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Umstead Teahouse, Under Construction #2]
Photograph of the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse under construction in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Built on a wooden base constructed on round concrete stilts, the teahouse is not yet complete, with wooden boards built on the teahouse's sides and the roof's frame completed. Both of the extended eaves are built on the left and right sides and several panels are already installed on the frame. Several narrow pieces of wood are laid diagonally on several parts of the teahouse. The pond is mostly filled with stagnant water.
Date:
1972-07~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lake Arbor, Under Construction #2]
Photograph of Lake Arbor, a pavilion under construction in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The wooden pavilion, topped with a low gable roof, rests on concrete stilts projecting to an empty basin below. Two workers are visible constructing the pavilion's wooden fences, and another is on the roof with a stack of lumber. The empty pond is lined with dirt and rocks.
Date:
1970-09~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden, Completed Footpaths #2]
Photograph of completed concrete footpaths in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. At right is a set of stairs, the footpath descending from a hill. The path goes left to split into three directions, with mostly barren dirt and some bare trees alongside the paths.
Date:
1972-03~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Umstead Teahouse, Roof Near Completion]
Photograph of the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse under construction in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Built on a wooden base constructed on round concrete stilts, the teahouse remains incomplete, with wooden boards built on the teahouse's sides and the roof nearly completed, covered with a flat material but lacking shingles. Several narrow pieces of wood are laid diagonally on several parts of the teahouse. The pond is mostly filled with stagnant, green water.
Date:
1972-07~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Dry Garden Base Construction #3]
Photograph of the base of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden under construction at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden, which consists of a rectangular enclosure of concrete stilts stuck into the ground. A tractor drives between the stilts, away from the camera, dragging a tool with it and being watched by two workers. An excavator is visible at left between the stilts, and a white truck is parked at right next to a stack of timber.
Date:
1970-06~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Pond, Winter #2]
Photograph of the pond in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden frozen in winter. Snow is visible on the edges of the pond and on the boulders and shrubs lining it. Trees hold snow and ice on their branches, and in the background, the Moon Bridge is covered with snow.
Date:
1973-01~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Checkerboard Bridge, Under Construction]
Photograph of the Checkerboard Bridge in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. Built with latticed, checkerboard-like wooden barriers, the narrow bridge crosses over a small stream in the park's lake, which remains uncompleted.
Date:
1970~/1971-01~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Spire Installation]
Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. A wooden spire, built with a brown base and topped with a sphere, is being lifted by an orange crane onto the top of the near-completed pagoda, which has several tiered curved roofs already installed.
Date:
1973-01~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Pagoda, 1974 Completion]
Photograph of the pagoda at the Japanese Garden in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The pagoda is made of several tiers, painted red, and black consisting of multiple, unevenly sized eaves and short balconies with wooden fences. A spire rises from the top tier. The pagoda is set in the middle of a large square planter base, which contains short shrubs and grasses.
Date:
1973~/1974~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Roof Installation #4]
Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. The pagoda's tiered roofs have been installed onto the wooden base, and a worker standing on tall white metal scaffolding near the top oversees the installation of the top curved roof as it is moved into place by an orange crane holding it with thin ropes.
Date:
1973-01~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Completed Roofs]
Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. The tiered curved roofs of the pagoda are completed, installed onto the wooden obelisk-shaped base. Two workers oversee the pagoda on metal scaffolding set on top of a white truck, while a crane is parked nearby to the right of the structure.
Date:
1973-01~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Roof Installation #3]
Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. The first tiered curved roof is being installed onto the wooden obelisk-shaped base, being slowly lowered by a crane holding it from above. Workers oversee the installation of the roof part, two from below, near the base of the pagoda, and one from above, on a man bucket at left.
Date:
1973-01~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Base Installation]
Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. The pagoda's base, a wooden obelisk, is being installed on a stone pedestal in a clearing of trees and bushes by a large orange crane that holds it by ropes attached to the top of the obelisk. Near the base, several workers watch the installation.
Date:
1973-01~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Roof Installation #1]
Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. A large orange crane holds a piece of the pagoda's curved roof with thin wires near the pagoda's wooden base, which has been installed onto the stone pedestal below it. Four workers oversee the installation of the roof piece as it is raised closer to the base's top.
Date:
1973-01~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Roof Installation #2]
Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. A large orange crane holds a piece of the pagoda's curved roof with thin wires near the pagoda's wooden base, which has been installed onto the stone pedestal below it. Several workers oversee the installation of the roof piece as it is raised closer to the base's top.
Date:
1973-01~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Landscaping]
Photograph of landscaping work in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. Gardeners wield tools and plant shrubs placed in brown containers into the ground along the concrete footpaths of the garden. Several of these shrubs are gathered all along the paths, with workers converging at top center. A barren and steep decline is visible at right.
Date:
1972-03~/1972-04~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Completed Base]
Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. Only the base has been constructed, a simple wooden obelisk with thin ropes attached to it at the top and wooden stakes surrounding it. Four of the pagoda's curved roofs, appearing to be made of cast bronze, sit at bottom right in front of the obelisk among a clearing of bushes and barren trees.
Date:
1973-01~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Umstead Teahouse, Under Construction #1]
Photograph of the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse under construction in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Built on a wooden base constructed on round concrete stilts, the teahouse is not yet complete, with wooden boards built on the teahouse's sides and the roof's frame near completed, its ribs and crossbeams visible but lacking an extended eave on its left side. Several narrow pieces of wood are laid diagonally on several parts of the teahouse. The pond is mostly filled with stagnant water.
Date:
1972~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Excavation Work]
Photograph of excavation work at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. Two workers, one with a pipe in his mouth, use shovels and dig alongside a steep dirt hill containing boulders and shrubs. Several trees are planted along the hill.
Date:
1972-03~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Crossing Construction #2]
Photograph of a crossing under construction in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. It consists of flat wooden planks laid over two straight wooden trunks laid across a small dirt trough connected to concrete footpaths on both sides, surrounded by barren dirt and small shrubs in the background.
Date:
1972-05~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Crossing Construction #3]
Photograph of a crossing over a small dirt gully under construction in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. A metal juncture connected between two round wooden tree trunks is emphasized in the image.
Date:
1972-05~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Umstead Teahouse Base Construction]
Photograph of a wooden and concrete base under construction for the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. Several workers lay a flat subfloor over the wooden joists of a lumber frame, built on round concrete stilts projecting into an empty concrete pond below, while other workers stand on the dirt path alongside the pond with tools and wheelbarrows. A Japanese-style gate stands behind them, as well as a small hill with concrete walls at right. Boulders and small trees sit along the pond at left.
Date:
1972~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Stepping Stone Construction]
Photograph of completed stepping stones in the concrete pond of the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. The stones, which span from one end of the pond to another in a curved path, are made of porous concrete and rise several feet from the base of the pond, which is only filled with several inches of stagnant water.
Date:
1972-04~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History