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Kater Street [2100 Block] 1953

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“Kater Street [2100 Block] 1953”. no date. Louise Bush-Brown Collection (2020.20), 1953.
APA citation style
(1953). Kater Street [2100 Block] 1953. Louise Bush-Brown Collection (2020.20). Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A124567
Chicago citation style
“Kater Street [2100 Block] 1953”. Louise Bush-Brown Collection (2020.20), Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - Louise Bush-Brown Image Collection, 1953. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A124567.
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Title

Kater Street [2100 Block] 1953

Subject

Neighborhood Garden Association of Philadelphia
Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Urban gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Neighborhood Garden Association. Garden Blocks Program
Western Community House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Oasis Garden Club (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Description

A collaborative Garden Block project by the Kater Street neighbors, the Germantown Garden Club, the Neighborhood Garden Association, the Oasis Garden Club, and the Western Community House. The focus was on brick sidewalk planters and roses

Contributors

Bush-Brown, Louise, 1897-1974

Date

1953

Location Covered

Philadelphia (Pa.)

Type

Image

Original Format

Slides

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Identifier

2020.20-LBB02-R3-E303

Source

Louise Bush-Brown Collection (2020.20)

Language

eng

Relation

Louise Bush-Brown Image Collection

Provenance

Gift; Mr. James Bush-Brown ; 1985

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Contact

For more information, contact McLean Library and Archives, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 100 North 20th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103, 215-988-8782, mcleanlibrary@pennhort.org

Contributing Institution

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. In addition, this project is supported in part through a National Endowment for the Humanities Cares Grant.

Notes

"In 1953, Louise Bush-Brown organized settlement house workers, and garden clubs into the Neighborhood Gardens Association to sponsor horticultural beautification programs in low income neighborhoods and at public housing projects. Neighbors on the 700 block of Mercy Street, became "The first Garden Block in America" when they planted window boxes built at St Martha's Settlement.| Vacant lot gardens were added in 1960 through 4-H, Cooperative Extension's youth program led by William A. White. Some of today's active community gardeners like Alta Felton and Mabel Wilson began gardening in public with NGA. It had seen 850 blocks planted by its 25th anniversary in 1978 shortly before becoming part of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Philadelphia Green Program." -- Libby J. Goldstein. Philadelphia's Community Garden History. http://www.cityfarmer.org/Phillyhistory10.html (accessed 10/26/2020)