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Main Gate exterior view with man leaning against pillar. Street and walk unpaved. Circa 1860.
1860 |
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View of the Main Garden Parterre in the 1890's. Visitors visible near Main Gate and Juno. One 7x5 in. sepia print.
1890 |
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Original Main Gate to the Garden located on Tower Grove Avenue; replaced in 1920. Visitors standing at lily pond.
1907 |
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View of carpet bedding at Main Gate. View is directly west with Juno at right. Visitors visible to the left. (Gardener & 2 ladies.)
1904 |
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View of Tulip beds in snow, looking east. Main Gate, wall, and houses across Tower Grove Ave. visible. Follows 82-0243.
1904 |
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Parterre in Main Garden with view looking east. This is a copy of an old photo, about 1860. Photograph copied March, 1909. PRINT AVAILABLE, SEE PHO 1982-0355 PHO 2006-3059, and Pho 2006-3060. Negative available at PHO 2006-3061.
1860 |
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Newly finished lily pools. The new pools were lined up with Flora Ave. which had been redone as it exists today. The original Main Gate is visible in the background and is lined up with the location of the old Flora Blvd.
1917 |
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Approach to Garden. Acer Dasycarpum lining Floral Avenue before the Great Cyclone of 1896 destroyed them. Floral Ave. was later named Flora Place after the development of the Shaw neighborhood began in 1897.
1891 |
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Main Gate interior view with ladies and children in foreground.
1890 |
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View from inside the Main Gate. Garden with people on east/west & north/south paths. Rectangular gazebo at left. Shadow of photographer and camera can be seen in foreground.
1890 |
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