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Alexander Wilson School. 1953

MLA citation style
“Alexander Wilson School. 1953”. no date. Louise Bush-Brown Collection (2020.20), 1953.
APA citation style
(1953). Alexander Wilson School. 1953. Louise Bush-Brown Collection (2020.20). Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A78233
Chicago citation style
“Alexander Wilson School. 1953”. Louise Bush-Brown Collection (2020.20), Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - Louise Bush-Brown Image Collection, 1953. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A78233.
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Title

Alexander Wilson School. 1953

Subject

Neighborhood Garden Association of Philadelphia
Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Urban gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Neighborhood Garden Association. Garden Blocks Program
Alexander Wilson Public School (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Description

The Alexander Wilson School Project was an early multi-year collaboration between the School, parents and neighbors, the Neighborhood Garden Association, and students of selected private schools in Philadelphia. The project also included the creation of a Demonstration Garden

Contributors

Bush-Brown, Louise, 1897-1974

Date

1953

Location Covered

Philadelphia (Pa.)

Type

Image

Original Format

Slides

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Identifier

2020.20_LBB01-R2-E189

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. 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)