Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - Archive Collections Guides

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  • Date = 1930-1939

About This Collection

This ongoing collection consists of finding aids created for the archival holdings of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (1827- ). Included are guides to historical materials such as the PHS minute books, administrative records, and PHS initiatives and programs for events including the Philadelphia Flower Show and Philadelphia Green. Finding aids also cover the extensive image file collections, glass slides, and ephemera connected with the activities of the Society.

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Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.), Church gardens--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia, College Club (Philadelphia, Pa.), Dooner, Richard T., First Unitarian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), Franklinia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Gardens--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia, Girard College, Logan Square (Philadelphia, Pa.), Mutual Assurance Company for Insuring Houses from Loss by Fire, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire, Print Club (Philadelphia, Pa.), Pritchett, Ida W., Rittenhouse Square (Philadelphia, Pa.), Society of Little Gardens (Philadelphia, Pa.), Swann Memorial Fountain (Philadelphia, Pa.), Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), Western Savings Fund Society (Philadelphia, Pa.), Women's City Club of Philadelphia
This collection comprises photo files gifted to PHS from the Society of Little Gardens of Philadelphia. A few photos are dated and some are signed by the photographer. Photographers include Ida W. Pritchett, Richard T. Dooner, "De Lardi' [possibly Alfred de Lardi]. The collection includes residential gardens and gardens of the Philadelphia Contributionship, Women's City Club, Philadelphia Art Alliance, the Mutual Assurance Company, the Print Club of Philadelphia, Girard College and the Roof Reading Room of the Main Branch of Free Library of Philadelphia. In addition, there are photographs of the gardens of Old Christ Church and the Unitarian Church on Chestnut and Van Pelt Streets, as well as the Swann Memorial Fountain on Logan Circle and views of Rittenhouse Square.