Object Details
Provenance
Garden Club of Mount Desert
Collection Creator
Garden Club of America
Collection Citation
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
sova.aag.gca_ref8462
General
This garden space is dominated by a Chinese Buddhistic Shrine of the 6th century (unfortunately we can't see this in the slide) and opposite it spreads out the main flower garden where a spacious level expanse of annuals is bordered by a slightly higher terrace walk of perennials. This striking mass of color is accented by the spruce trees in the background, which were left standing when the area for the garden was cut out of dense forest and swamp on the hilltop in 1927.
Historic plate number: "50."
Historic plate caption: "Mount [Desert], Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. End of Garden."
Place
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden (Seal Harbor, Maine)
United States of America -- Maine -- Hancock County -- Seal Harbor
Topic
Summer
Annuals (Plants)
Perennials
Stones
Containers
Doorways
Moon gates
Spruce
Walls
Gardens -- Maine -- Seal Harbor
Provenance
Garden Club of Mount Desert
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The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Gardens / Maine / ME043: Seal Harbor -- Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden
Sponsor
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
Extent
1 Photograph (lantern slide, hand-colored, 3.25 x 4 in.)
Date
[between 1914 and 1949?]
Archival Repository
Archives of American Gardens
Identifier
AAG.GCA, Item ME043004
Type
Archival materials
Photographs
Lantern slides
Collection Rights
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Genre/Form
Lantern slides
Collection Restrictions
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
AAG.GCA_ref8462
Large EAD
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AAG.GCA
AAG
Record ID
ebl-1643208220039-1643210180067-1