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[Mary Daggett Lake Library]

Description: Photograph of the Mary Daggett Lake Library at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The library, located in the Rock Springs Center, contains bookshelves along the four corners of the room. At center is a wide gray fireplace with a portrait of Mary Daggett Lake hanging above, with bookshelves lined with books on both sides of the fireplace. At center, set upon a large rug, is a wooden table with two adjoining, cushioned wooden tables and a large white book atop it, as well as a pair of reclined white… more
Date: [1963..]
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Perennial Garden Waterfall #2]

Description: Photograph of a rock waterfall in the Perennial Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The waterfall is visible at middle right, pouring from a stacked slope of flat boulders into a pond lined with rocks and shrubs. A footpath at left runs along it, adjacent to an arrangement of tiered bushes, shrubs, yellow flowers, and short trees. Above and around the rock fountain is a higher footpath with metal fencing.
Date: 199X
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Botanic Garden Youth Activities]

Description: Photograph of a youth activity at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Multiple children are visible sitting in a grass lawn, each holding a small paper and pencil, with one boy holding out a paper bag. In front of them is a partially obscured adult facing away from the camera and a paper resting on the grass containing an image of a tree's branch with leaves attached on twigs
Date: [..1985-06]
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pond Construction #3]

Description: Photograph of construction work in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Wire mesh is laid out along a large empty dirt basin, which contains a mound of dirt at center. A large truck with a concrete pump and a cylindrical concrete mixer is partially obscured at left. Multiple workers are visible in and around the basin, some laying mesh and others overlooking the concrete pour, which has already been completed for part of the pond.
Date: 1971-01~
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Stream Construction #1]

Description: Photograph of an empty concrete stream under construction at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden, which comes down from a larger pond in tiers. The empty basin of the larger pond is visible in the background, as well as the pond's island and the stone waterfall behind it. Boulders and trees line the descending stream.
Date: 1970-09~
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[River Shade House Color Production]

Description: Photograph of a production greenhouse in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden containing beds of predominantly orange and yellow flowers. A brick path runs along the middle of the greenhouse at left, which leads to numerous shrubs and potted trees. Additional beds of other flower species are planted to the left of the path, and hanging flower bushes are visible from the roof of the greenhouse. A wooden fence goes across the background.
Date: 1985~/1999~
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Garden Center Flower Show]

Description: Photograph of a flower show in the Garden Center at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Multiple flowers in vases are displayed on a long table with pleated black skirting, each specimen bearing a paper card with handwritten notes on it. Other flowers are displayed on paper plates, and some have red or blue ribbons placed alongside them. Plant containers are visible in the left background of the image, and an attendant is partially visible at right.
Date: 1994
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Botanic Garden North Entrance Sign Construction]

Description: 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
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Lake Arbor Construction, Early Work]

Description: Photograph of the Lake Arbor pavilion under construction in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The pavilion's base, built on four round concrete stilts projecting to the basin dug out below, is partially built, while only two vertical beams have been erected at left. Several planks of lumber rest on the vertical beams, while other pieces of wood, as well as two saw horses at right, sit in stacks around the pavilion. The site of the garden's pond is currently bare and scattere… more
Date: 1970-09~
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pavilion Frame Construction]

Description: Photograph of the wooden frame of a pavilion under construction at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. The frame, built on a floating wooden base supported by round concrete stilts, is incomplete, with the base's floor not yet fully built and having only four vertical beams. Another pavilion in a similar state is partially shown at right. The pavilions sit in under the shade of tall trees.
Date: 1970-12~
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Fuller Garden Archways Construction]

Description: Photograph of archways in the Fuller Garden under construction at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The archways are built along unbuilt footpaths with concrete pillars as bases. Additional archways, three of which visible at center, seem to serve as trellises or flower arches. Three construction workers work along a short stone brick wall at right. The Garden Center is visible in the background.
Date: 1986/1990-06~
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Lower Rose Garden, Facing West]

Description: Photograph of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Looking west, the garden is visible on a slight incline towards a partially obscured pavilion-like structure in the background, with arrangements of hedges and roses positioned in front of the pavilion. Along the foreground is a larger hedge, a stone brick pillar, and a white rose bush.
Date: 199X
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Dry Garden Frame Construction]

Description: Photograph of a corner of the wooden frame of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden under construction in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, built on multiple short round concrete stilts. One side has not yet been fully built, with numerous exposed joints in the structure at left. Two saw horses rest near the dry garden's base, while pieces of lumber are scattered under and around the frame.
Date: 1970-06~
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Lake Arbor Frame Construction #1]

Description: Photograph of the lumber frame of the Lake Arbor pavilion under construction in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Long wood planks rest diagonally on it, and stacks of planks, lumber sheets, and two saw horses are visible in front of the frame, which sits in front of a small hill dotted with trees.
Date: 1970-09~
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Visitors in Botanic Garden Maze]

Description: Photograph of visitors in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden hedge maze. Three adults are accompanied by a child and walk along a hedge wall. An empty barrel and a small wooden covering is beside them. An advertisement billboard and a streetlight is visible behind the hedges. The former site of the hedge maze is currently occupied by the botanical garden's vegetable garden.
Date: 1956~
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pond Concrete Pour #2]

Description: Photograph of workers pouring out concrete into the pond at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. Several are visible standing in the wet concrete, with some holding mortar hoes and rakes to smooth out the concrete. Others stand on the steel wire mesh, next near the tube where the wet concrete comes out, on areas the concrete has not yet been poured in. The concrete stilts holding the Lake Arbor pavilion are visible at top left.
Date: 1971-01~
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pavilions, Under Construction]

Description: Photograph of the wooden frame of a pavilion under construction in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The pavilion has a tall gabled roof, its crossbeams and ribbing already built, situated on a square wooden frame and a base lined with lumber set on round concrete stilts into the bare soil. A saw horse is visible at right, as well as makeshift stairs leading from the soil to the base.
Date: 1970-12~
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
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