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The Stylish House: 1941

3.34278
35mm color slide
Digitized
Unknown
2.3 cm W x 3.4 cm H (Item)
1 slide
Photographic image
A version of an illustration from Reading the Landscape, Chapter 13: "The Stylish House or Fashions as an Ecological Factor," depicting a home and its landscaped yard. This illustration shows the view of the house and yard during the mid-20th century.

Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:
  • Don and Kay / and / Debby / and / Stockwell Stilwell Hamlet II / and Stockwell Stilwell Ophelia
  • 1941 --- [sketch of a lamp with a potted plant]
    • currants
    • tuberous begonias
    • ferns
    • roses
    • Japanese yew
    • Japanese quince
    • winter honeysuckle
    • honey locusts
    • winged Euonymus
  • [sketches of two ornamental planters to the right of the illustration]
Currants
Dwellings
Euonymus
Ferns
Honey locust
Honeysuckles
Illustrations
Landscape gardening--History
Lawn ecology
Pen drawing
Plant ecology
Roses
Trees--Identification
Tuberous begonias
Chaenomeles japonica (Thunb.) Lindl. (Japanese flowering quince)
Taxus cuspidata Sieb. & Zucc. (Japanese yew)
Watts, May Theilgaard (is related to)
Proofs for Illustrations for Reading the Landscape, #9
May T. Watts: Photographs
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