April 15, 2012
The New York City Garden Photographs of Frances Benjamin Johnston As pointed out in Thursday’s New York Times, a rare cache of photographs documenting America’s gardening past have been digitized and are now online at the website of the Library of Congress. Taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries to accompany magazine articles, these beautiful images serve as a portal to gardening and landscaping trends of the past. The images of the gardens of New York City are especially wonderful. Take an hour this morning while you sip your coffee or tea to leisurely scroll through this wonderful new resource. ~AR

The New York City Garden Photographs of Frances Benjamin Johnston

As pointed out in Thursday’s New York Times, a rare cache of photographs documenting America’s gardening past have been digitized and are now online at the website of the Library of Congress.

Taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries to accompany magazine articles, these beautiful images serve as a portal to gardening and landscaping trends of the past. The images of the gardens of New York City are especially wonderful. Take an hour this morning while you sip your coffee or tea to leisurely scroll through this wonderful new resource. ~AR

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March 10, 2012
In February of 1936, a Bronx flood near the NYBG left the landscape an eerie plain of reflections. —MN (Source: Mertz Library Digital Collections)

In February of 1936, a Bronx flood near the NYBG left the landscape an eerie plain of reflections. —MN

(Source: Mertz Library Digital Collections)

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January 29, 2012
From the Library: Britton in the Field


Here is Nathaniel Lord Britton, the first Director-in-Chief of The New York Botanical Garden, in a photograph taken in February 1905, in the Bahamas.

Britton was accompanied on this expedition by his wife Elizabeth Britton and Marshall Howe. They returned with about ten thousand specimens, as reported in the Notes, News and Comment section of the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, March 1905, page 52.

Charles Millspaugh, Britton’s co-author on The Bahama Flora (1920), was also on the trip.

Source: The New York Botanical Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.

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November 15, 2011
From the Library: Pergola in the Herbaceous Garden

 

November 8, 1912: The pergola while still under construction.

November 8, 2011: A lot has changed.

Source: The New York Botanical Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library; Paul Silverman.

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October 20, 2011
From the Library: Economic Botany

A note on the back of this photo reads: “Economic Botany Museum at the New York Botanical Garden 1905. (H.H. Rusby, Honorary Curator, Economic Botany)”.

Source: The New York Botanical Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.

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October 14, 2011
From the Library: Baby on a Waterlily

This is a baby on a water lily (Victoria amazonica), but there is no other information—names, year?—in the archives about this photograph.

Any suggestions?

Source: The New York Botanical Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.

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August 22, 2011
From the Library: Haymaking at the Garden

Unknown dates.

Source: The New York Botanical Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.

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July 15, 2011
From the Library: Summer Scene

The New York Botanical Garden, July 1916.

(Source: The Garden’s historical photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.)

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