File:AERIAL VIEW, LOOKING NORTHWEST. - John Bartram House and Garden, 54th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA HALS PA-1-59.tif
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[edit]AERIAL VIEW, LOOKING NORTHWEST. - John Bartram House and Garden, 54th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA | |||||
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Photographer |
Boucher, Jack E. |
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Title |
AERIAL VIEW, LOOKING NORTHWEST. - John Bartram House and Garden, 54th Street and Lindbergh Boulevard, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA |
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Description |
Bartram, John; Bartram, William; Eastwick, Andrew; Carr, Ann Bartram; Carr, Robert; Bartram, John; Carr, John Bartram; Meehan, Thomas; Sargent, Charles S; John Bartram Association; Fry, Joel T, historian; Elliott, Joseph, photographer; Calderon, David, delineator; Arzola, Robert R, project manager |
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Depicted place | Pennsylvania; Philadelphia County; Philadelphia | ||||
Date | 2003 | ||||
Dimensions | 4 x 5 in. | ||||
Current location |
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print |
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Accession number |
HALS PA-1-59 |
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Following the American Revolution, Bartram's sons John Bartram, Jr. (1743-1812) and William Bartram (1739-1823), continued the international trade in plants and expanded the family's botanic garden and nursery business. Following his father's lead, William became an important naturalist, artist, and author in his own right, and under his influence the garden became an educational center that aided in training a new generation of natural scientists and explorers. William's Travels, published in 1791, chronicled his own exploration efforts and remains a milestone in American literature. After 1812, Ann Bartram Carr (1779 1858), a daughter of John Bartram, Jr., maintained the family garden and business with her husband Colonel Robert Carr (1778 1866) and his son John Bartram Carr (1804 1839). Their commercial activities remained focused on international trade in native North American plants, although domestic demand also grew under their management. In 1850, financial difficulties led to the historic garden's sale outside the family to Andrew M. Eastwick (1811-1879), who preserved it as a private park for his estate. Upon Eastwick's 1879 death, a campaign to preserve the garden was organized by Thomas Meehan (1826-1901), in Philadelphia, with national assistance from Charles S. Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1891, control of the site was turned over to the City of Philadelphia and it remains protected as a city park. Since that time, the John Bartram Association, formally organized in 1893, has overseen preservation efforts and historical comprehension of the garden, the John Bartram House, and a number of surviving outbuildings. Presently, the garden's plant collection includes only a few extant examples dating from the Bartram family occupancy; however, documentation for what was once in cultivation is rich. More importantly, despite wanting care and interpretation during the first century of public ownership and the disappearance of a number of subsidiary physical elements in the landscape, the garden's rectilinear framework designed and laid out by Bartram during the second quarter of the eighteenth century is still recognizable. Bartram's Garden's physical endurance and resonant associative meanings make the site an unparalleled location for comprehending an array of historical facets related to John Bartram, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century botanic studies, the North American plant and seed business, and period domestic life in Philadelphia.
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Source | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3904.photos.200863p | ||||
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Object location | 39° 57′ 07.99″ N, 75° 09′ 51.01″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 39.952220; -75.164170 |
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Camera manufacturer | Sinar |
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Camera model | 54H |
Author | Library of Congress |
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File change date and time | 13:36, 29 November 2006 |