Flowers from an Indian garden

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  Desert garden photographs of flowering agave attenuata plants

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  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.

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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.

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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.

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

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  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.]

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  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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