Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - PHS Archives Digital Image Collection

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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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Ribbon of Gold. Eastern State Penitentiary
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia Green (Program), Urban gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History, Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Ribbon of Gold
Philadelphia Green teamed with the Fairmount and Spring Garden Neighbors to plant wildflowers and perennials from the terraces of the Eastern State Penitentiary, through Spring Garden Street, to the boulevard leading up to the 30th Street Station. The ribbon stretched to a section of Delaware Boulevard from Chestnut to Market.
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Ribbon of Gold. Urban Sections
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia Green (Program), Urban gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Ribbon of Gold
Philadelphia Green teamed with the Fairmount and Spring Garden Neighbors to plant wildflowers and perennials from the terraces of the Eastern State Penitentiary, through Spring Garden Street, to the boulevard leading up to the 30th Street Station. The ribbon stretched to a section of Delaware Boulevard from Chestnut to Market.
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Ribbon of Gold. Urban Sections
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia Green (Program), Urban gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Ribbon of Gold
Philadelphia Green teamed with the Fairmount and Spring Garden Neighbors to plant wildflowers and perennials from the terraces of the Eastern State Penitentiary, through Spring Garden Street, to the boulevard leading up to the 30th Street Station. The ribbon stretched to a section of Delaware Boulevard from Chestnut to Market.
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Ribbon of Gold. Urban Sections
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia Green (Program), Urban gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Ribbon of Gold
Philadelphia Green teamed with the Fairmount and Spring Garden Neighbors to plant wildflowers and perennials from the terraces of the Eastern State Penitentiary, through Spring Garden Street, to the boulevard leading up to the 30th Street Station. The ribbon stretched to a section of Delaware Boulevard from Chestnut to Market.
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Ribbon of Gold. Urban Sections
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia Green (Program), Urban gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Ribbon of Gold
Philadelphia Green teamed with the Fairmount and Spring Garden Neighbors to plant wildflowers and perennials from the terraces of the Eastern State Penitentiary, through Spring Garden Street, to the boulevard leading up to the 30th Street Station. The ribbon stretched to a section of Delaware Boulevard from Chestnut to Market.
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Tree Tenders. Mindy Maslin
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia Green (Program), Urban gardening -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Urban gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Tree Tenders, Maslin, Mindy
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Tree Tenders program works with volunteer-based community groups to plant trees. The program provides workshops in tree planting and care and volunteer group organization. PHS has trained more than 5,000 people who have gone on to lead volunteers in planting over 1,300 trees each year.
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Winter Workshop
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Winter Workshop, Philadelphia Green (Program)
Photograph of winter workshop. Forms part of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Records: Special Formats (2010.05) [1 photograph : color ; 12 x 16 cm, mounted on board, 14 x 20 cm]
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