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[Conservatory Pumpkin Patch]

Photograph of a pumpkin patch in the Conservatory at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Pumpkins, golden shrimp plants, and other flowering bushes sit in a recessed area, with the Conservatory's waterfall at left and small flower beds on the right. A scarecrow is visible laying against a small tree in the center background, sitting among several shrubs. The pumpkins vary in size and color and are mostly uncarved. More footpaths in the Conservatory, as well as trellises and larger trees are visible further in the background.
Date: November 1990
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Eastern Fuller Garden Construction Work]

Photograph of the Fuller Garden and the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden undergoing work. The courtyard's elevated concrete planters, with yellow shrubs and flowers planted inside, are visible in the lower left half of the image. The veranda of the Garden Center is visible on the left side of the image. Construction workers and gardeners, scattered across the garden, work on stone pathways embedded into the grass. A man in a hat gestures towards an empty patch of dirt to another worker. Work cars are parked across the edge of the image towards the background, covered by trees.
Date: 1990-06~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Umstead Teahouse #4]

Photograph of the Mary K. Umstead Teahouse in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The teahouse sits over the garden pond, held by stilts in the water, and features a wooden balcony, shuttered shoji screen doors, and a pagoda-style roof. Large pink flower bushes and tall grasses sit on the edge of the pond, and koi fish are faintly visible swimming within. In the background are several stone steps, another pagoda-style building, and a wooden fence.
Date: April 1990
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

["Bull" Sculpture]

Photograph of "Bull", a sculpture by Chris Powell at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The piece sits on two concrete slabs and consists of a half-ovoid, egg-shaped structure with a small rectangular opening centered below and a prominent circular ridge emerging from the top of the sculpture. The piece is located among trees and grasses.
Date: [1990..]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Garden Center Conservatory]

Photograph of the Conservatory at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Located adjacent to the Garden Center, the Conservatory is a long octagonal building covered entirely in glass. The entry sign in the foreground, made of stone bricks and lined with pink bushes, reads "BOTANIC GARDEN CENTER AND CONSERVATORY".
Date: 1990
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Garden Center Naiad Statues #1]

Photograph of two statues of women in front of the Garden Center at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The first is one of a barefoot woman with tied-back hair sitting on a stone boulder with a raised leg, glancing downwards. The second is that of a woman in a dress lifting her body and extending her right hand upwards. Both statues are situated among patches of yellow flowers and grasses, and sit in front of the Garden Center building, which is prominent in the background.
Date: 1990
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Garden Center Naiad Statues #2]

Photograph of two statues of women in front of the Garden Center at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The first is one of a barefoot woman with tied-back hair sitting on a stone boulder with a raised leg, glancing downwards. The second is that of a woman in a dress lifting her body and extending her right hand upwards. Both statues are situated among patches of yellow flowers and grasses, and sit in front of the Garden Center building, which is prominent in the background.
Date: 1990
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Garden Center Naiad Statues, Winter]

Photograph of two frost-covered statues of women in front of the Garden Center at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The first is one of a barefoot woman with tied-back hair sitting on a stone boulder with a raised leg, glancing downwards. The second is that of a woman in a dress lifting her body and extending her right hand upwards. Both statues are situated among frost-covered dirt, the Garden Center prominent at right.
Date: [1990..]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Checkerboard Bridge #1]

Photograph of the checkerboard bridge in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The bridge, lined with flower bushes of various colors, is made of latticed wooden planks and goes over a small stream in the garden pond. In the foreground, numerous orange and white koi fishes are swimming.
Date: [..1990-02]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Checkerboard Bridge #2]

Photograph of the checkerboard bridge in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The bridge, lined with flower bushes of various colors, is made of latticed wooden planks and goes over a small stream in the garden pond. In the foreground, numerous orange and white koi fishes are swimming.
Date: [..1990-02]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fuller Garden Gazebo Construction]

Photograph of a gazebo in the Fuller Garden under construction at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The gazebo, built with concrete pillars, is visible with an incomplete roof. Blue tiles are partially placed along the circular pyramid roof, but internal wooden ribs are visible on the left side. Rudimentary scaffolding has been constructed on the left of the gazebo, and several workers pace around and behind the gazebo. The Fuller Garden's rock waterfall is visible int he left background, but is not operating.
Date: [..1990-08]
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History