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[Scrapbook: Fort Worth Beautiful]

Description: Scrapbook for the Fort Worth Garden Club documenting activities, including newspaper clippings, event programs, certificates, and other ephemera related to the organization's "Fort Worth Beautiful" award. Many of the pages at the end of the book are blank.
Date: 1987/1994
Creator: Fort Worth Garden Club
Partner: Fort Worth Garden Club

Fort Worth Park System, 1935

Description: Photo album and text documenting the development of the Fort Worth Park System, including park drives, neighborhood parks, bridle paths, and other recreational features in the city.
Date: 1935
Creator: Fort Worth (Tex.). Board of Park Commissioners.
Partner: Fort Worth Garden Club

[Workers Breaking Soil]

Description: Photograph of a large number of workers in dark-colored clothing using pickaxes to dig or break soil on the side of a hill. Behind them, there is an extremely large, three-story, side-gabled, Colonial-style brick building with a tower above the main entrance. At the left side of the image, a series of houses and utility lines are partially visible in the background.
Date: 1925~/1935~
Partner: Fort Worth Garden Club

[Stone Structure in Fort Worth]

Description: Photograph of a small, open structure made of natural stone with a gabled roof that has pointed rafters extending below the eaves. The near gable end has a large arched entrance and the sides appear to be largely open, with low wooden and stone railings. There is a dirt path along the side of the structure and it is surrounded by bushes and trees.
Date: 1925~/1935~
Partner: Fort Worth Garden Club

[Botanic Garden Pathway]

Description: Photograph of a pathway made of natural paving stones in a section of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The path curves toward the back-right of the image ind is surrounded by bushes and trees on the left, with decorative stones and flowers at right.
Date: 1925~/1935~
Partner: Fort Worth Garden Club

[Woman Near Botanical Garden Waterfall]

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman crouching on a series of stacked rocks that form part of a decorative waterfall at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. She is looking down toward the waterway, which appears to be dry and the area is surrounded by bushes and trees, visible in the background.
Date: 1925~/1935~
Partner: Fort Worth Garden Club

[Entrance to Japanese Garden]

Description: Photograph of the entry gate to the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, viewed from the left (west) side. The gate house is built in a Japanese style with wooden timbers, an enclosed room above the entryway with paneled windows, and a decorative tiled roof with gable ends and flared eaves. There are smaller, single-story rectangular structures on either side of the gate, surrounded by a stone fence and trees are visible in the background.
Date: 1973~
Partner: Fort Worth Garden Club
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