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Archives
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 The Archives of American Gardens (AAG), founded in 1987, offers landscape designers, historians, researchers, and garden enthusiasts to approximately 80,000 photographic images and records that document a wide variety of historic and contemporary gardens throughout the United States.
The mission of the Archives of American Gardens is "to collect and make available for research use unique, high quality images of and documentation relating to a wide variety of cultivated gardens throughout the United States that are not documented elsewhere since historic, designed and cultural landscapes are subject to change, loss and destruction. In this way, AAG strives to preserve and highlight a meaningful compendium of significant aspects of gardening in the United States for the benefit of researchers and the public today and in the future."
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Scope of the
Collections
The
Archives of American Gardens currently documents over
6,300 gardens throughout the United States. Images in the
archives, which date from the late nineteenth century to
the present, highlight such features as garden furniture
and ornamentation, fountains, sculptures, fences and gates,
parterres, and garden structures. The design styles represented
range from large Italianate estates to herb and rose gardens,
cottage and patio gardens, and community gardens.
Guide to the Collections
View a listing of AAG collections with links to collection descriptions.
Browse Images from the Collections
View a selection of garden images in the
SIRIS Slideshow Viewer from the *NEW*
SIRIS Cross Searching Center. |
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