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Flowers from an Indian garden

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Description: First series of a botanical work on flowers in India. The work opens with a chromolithographed prefatory poem titled "Help us!", followed by 11 chromolithographed plates faced by an accompanying leaf of chromolithographed verses. The leaves of verses contain poetic excerpts from Dicken's Household Words, The Language of Flowers, Shakespeare, and the Botanical Magazine, and give details of the habit and habitats of some of the illustrated flowers.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1846].
Call number: 657044
Creator: Eden, Emily (1797-1869)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005 This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, which was donated to The Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress.

Desert garden photographs of flowering agave attenuata plants

Visual Materials

Three photographs labeled "Agave attenuata", "Agave attenuata N. R-52", and "Agave attenuata close up of flowers" mounted on a black page. Commonly referred to as a "foxtail" agave, due to the appearance of the flower stem (inflorescence) which Hertrich is here supporting in the picture on the left. William Hertrich was Superintendent of Botanical from 1927 to 1949.

photCL 107 vol1 pg3

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[Louis Prang album]

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Album containing 1 lithographed and 49 chromolithographed specimens of the work of Louis Prang, including: flowers, a Civil War battle scene, landscapes, portraits and birds.

337810

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Wild flowers of America : 400 flowers in full color based on paintings by Mary Vaux Walcott, as published by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington : with additional paintings by Dorothy Falcon Platt

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Lifesize illustrations and descriptive paragraphs on the origin and botanical classification of American wild flowers.

654531

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Clippings (information artifacts) -- Flower View Gardens, (1959-2004)

Manuscripts

Included: Articles about Naomi Hirahara, A Scent of Flowers and photocopies

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[Proof sheet for Prang's natural history series: rose family and shapes of flowers.]

Visual Materials

Image of a proof sheet of 24 album cards of flowers from Prang's Natural History Series; issued in two sets of 12 cards; Rose Family cards include the name for each kind of rose along with the months it blooms; Shapes of Flowers cards list the common and botanical name for each kind of flower along with the name of the specific plant illustrated.

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Flowers

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"I had been a photographer for over thirty years and I had never taken pictures of flowers, mostly because I had always been a black-and-white photographer and photographing flowers in black-and-white seemed like an insult to the flowers. One of the reasons why I only worked in black-and-white is that I'm red-green colorblind and I've found it difficult to color balance prints in the darkroom. I noticed, though, that with Photoshop, even I could easily color balance images in the computer ... In the summer of 2004 I finally decided I had done enough darkroom work and closed it down ... All pictures were taken in the Grandview community garden, about one square block in size"--From introduction.

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