Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - Jay V. Hare Lantern Slide Collection

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  • Subject = Gardens -- Italy -- Florence
  • Date = [1890]

About This Collection

Jay Veeder Hare (1878 -1953) was born in Schodack, New York. He attended the Peirce School in Philadelphia and graduated from Temple University Law School. He began his long career with the Reading Company in 1897 as a junior clerk who rose through the ranks, retiring from the railroad in 1945 as secretary and treasurer of the Reading Company, parent company of the Reading Railway System. He wrote the first in-depth history of the Reading Company. He was an avid gardener and a founder of the Trevose Horticultural Society in Trevose, Pennsylvania, where he lived at Hareacres with his wife Jean (Weber) Hare and daughters Jean and Nancy. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s executive council from 1929 to 1949. Mr. Hare gave many illustrated lectures on plants and gardens based on his extensive world travels. He obtained lantern slides from commercial photography houses such as Williams, Brown & Earle and the William H. Rau Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; T.Takagi Photo Company in Kobe, Japan and T. Ikeda in Tokyo, Japan; Lévy et Neurdein Réunis in Paris, France; and Arxiu Mas in Barcelona, Spain. His lectures were supplemented by his own photography. The collection is strong in images from Japan, Italy, Spain, the United States and Switzerland, with representation from Bermuda, England, Ireland, France, Monaco, Germany, New Zealand, and South Africa. The images, many of which are hand-colored, depict typical or famous gardens, well-known city parks, tourist views of areas of spectacular natural beauty such as waterfalls and picturesque coastlines, as well as individual plant portraits. Many of the gardens and much of the landscape have changed significantly in the past 100 years or have disappeared entirely. For example, the views of Japan include chrysanthemum festivals, Japanese gardens, flower arranging for tea ceremonies, tea gardens, farmers picking tea leaves, and men, women and children in traditional Japanese dress – all evoke a time that no longer exists. In addition to an avid interest in gardens and plants, Jay V. Hare was also a birder and member of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club. The lantern slide collection was given to PHS McLean Library & Archives by daughter Nancy Veeder Koltes in 2008.This digital project is supported in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities Sustaining the Humanities Through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) grant.

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Certosa del Galluzzo (Florence, Italy), Gardens -- Italy -- Florence
Hand-colored glass lantern slide of the Great Cloister of the Certosa del Galluzzo with a Carthusian monk in the foreground. Forms part of the Jay V. Hare Lantern Slide Collection (2021.01) [1 slide : lantern, hand colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.] 
Villa Medicea di Careggi (Florence, Italy), Gardens -- Italy -- Florence
Hand-colored glass lantern slide of a view of Medici Villa at Careggi looking onto the gardens, Careggi, Florence, Italy. Forms part of the Jay V. Hare Lantern Slide Collection (2021.01) [1 slide : lantern, hand colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.] 
Villa Salviati (Florence, Italy), Gardens -- Italy -- Florence
Hand-colored glass lantern slide of a view of Villa Salviati and the garden, Florence, Italy. Forms part of the Jay V. Hare Lantern Slide Collection (2021.01) [1 slide : lantern, hand colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.] 
S. Miniato al Monte (Church : Florence, Italy), Florence (Italy), Gardens -- Italy -- Florence
Hand-colored glass lantern slide of view of Florence, cityscape views from the gardens of San Miniato al Monte. Forms part of the Jay V. Hare Lantern Slide Collection (2021.01) [1 slide : lantern, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.]
Giardino di Boboli (Florence, Italy), Gardens -- Italy -- Florence, Fontana del Nettuno (Florence, Italy)
Hand-colored glass lantern slide of the Boboli Gardens with the Forcone (Pitchfork) Fountain, or the Garden of Neptune, Florence, Italy. Forms part of the Jay V. Hare Lantern Slide Collection (2021.01) [1 slide : lantern, hand colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.] 
Giardino di Boboli (Florence, Italy), Gardens -- Italy -- Florence, Cypress -- Italy -- Florence
Hand-colored glass lantern slide of a perspective view of the cypress-lined avenue in the Boboli Gardens, Florence . Forms part of the Jay V. Hare Lantern Slide Collection (2021.01) [1 slide : lantern, hand colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.] 
Giardino di Boboli (Florence, Italy), Fontana del Carciofo (Florence, Italy), Gardens -- Italy -- Florence
Hand-colored glass lantern slide of a view of the Boboli Gardens with the Fontana del Carciofo (Artichoke Fountain) and the Amphitheater, The Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy. Forms part of the Jay V. Hare Lantern Slide Collection (2021.01) [1 slide : lantern, hand colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.] 
Villa del Poggio Imperiale (Florence, Italy), Gardens -- Italy -- Florence
Hand-colored glass lantern slide of a lake in the gardens of the Villa di Poggia, Florence, Italy. Forms part of the Jay V. Hare Lantern Slide Collection (2021.01) [1 slide : lantern, hand colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.] 
Villa del Poggio Imperiale (Florence, Italy), Gardens -- Italy -- Florence
Hand-colored glass lantern slide of an avenue with canal in the gardens of the Villa di Poggio, Florence, Italy. Forms part of the Jay V. Hare Lantern Slide Collection (2021.01) [1 slide : lantern, hand colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.]