Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - PHS Archives Digital Image Collection

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About This Collection

This collection documents activities and projects undertaken by or in partnership with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society from its inception in 1827 to the 21st Century (apart from Philadelphia Flower Show documentation, which is in a separate collection). The bulk of the material is from originals dating from 1940 - 2010. Consisting of scanned documents and photographic images, born-digital images, and digitized video and audio clips, this collection documents Philadelphia-area horticultural activity including: WWII Victory Garden Harvest Shows; PHS’s work from 1970s forward on urban greening projects created in concert with community leaders and activists; major projects on public landscape revitalization; and vacant land stabilization. This collection traces the trajectory of PHS’s urban greening initiatives starting in the 1970s as its Philadelphia Green program, which, over time, helped Philadelphians create hundreds of community gardens, plant thousands of trees to beautify and cool the city’s streets, to revitalize Philadelphia’s neighborhood parks and to bring new life to iconic public landscapes. Additionally, the collection includes digital images of Meadowbrook Farm a 25-acre property in Abington, Pennsylvania, bequeathed to PHS in 2003 and material related to PHS’s first Pop Up Garden in 2011. The collection is supported in part through a 2020 NEH Cares Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Interview. Blaine Bonham
Ballard, Ernesta Drinker, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Greene Countrie Townes, Philadelphia Green (Program), Oral histories, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Bonham, J. Blaine
Former Executive VP Blaine Bonham talks about "Greene Countrie Towns," a signature program of PHS's Philadelphia Green.
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Interview. Cynthia Kishinchand
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Tree Tenders, Trees in cities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Philadelphia Green (Program), Oral histories, Maslin, Mindy
Cynthia Kisinchand was in one of the first Tree Tenders classes the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Mindy Maslin led. Today, 23 years later, she remains grateful for all the ways her involvement has enriched her life
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Interview. Darlene Marcus and Viery (Vie) Thomas
Glenwood Green Acres (Philadelphia, Pa.), Community Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia Green (Program), Neighborhood Gardens Trust, Oral histories, Taylor, James, Oral histories, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. City Harvest
Veteran gardeners Darlene Marcus and Viery (Vie) Thomas tell the story of Glenwood Green Acres, a three-and-a-half acre community garden in North Philadelphia founded by gardener James Taylor. Located at 1801 W. Glenwood Avenue, this Neighborhood Gardens Trust Preserved Garden (1993) was founded in 1987.
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Interview. Jane Pepper
Oral histories, Pepper, Jane G., Ballard, Ernesta Drinker, Philadelphia Green (Program), Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Nichols, Mamie, -2009, Point Breeze (Philadelphia, Pa.), Bullock, Willie Mae, Turner, Sharon
Jane Pepper reflects on the legacy of her 30 years with Philadelphia Horticultural Society -- and memories of Mamie Nichols, Willie Mae Bullock, and Sharon Turner and their work with Philadelphia Green.
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Philadelphia Green. Presentation. Audio
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia Green (Program), Urban gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History, Bullock, Willie Mae, Turner, Sharon, Clarke, Herb, Goode, W. Wilson, Pepper, Jane G., Trower, Haroldline, Bonham, J. Blaine, Williams, Terry, Repplier, Sidney, Ballard, Ernesta Drinker, Reichner, Henry, Shils, Rhea, Clark, Augusta, Johnson, Ida, Smelley, Almina, Reed, James, Fernandez, Lois, Wilkins, Ruth, Evans, Susan B., Yep, Cecilia Moy
Willie Mae Bullock is narrator of the audio that accompanied the circa 1984 slide presentation created to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Philadelphia Green program.
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