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The Apparel Mart Tapestries in Dallas by Bjørn Wiinblad

Description: Series of folded pages that describe the tapestries commissioned to hang in the great hall of the Dallas Apparel Mart, based on the Arabian Nights stories. The first page provides background, with the handwritten text of the letter written by artist Bjørn Wiinblad describing the inspiration for the images; the second page discusses the process and shows images of the illustration versus the tapestry. The other pages provide text from the Arabian Nights for each of the five themes selected for… more
Date: October 1973
Creator: Wiinblad, Bjørn
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Ed Evans and Addie Wilson on a Buggy]

Description: Photographs of Ed Evans and Addie Wilson, "prominent society young people". They wear formal clothes and are seated in a wooden buggy led by a single horse. The buggy is parked in a clearing in front of trees and bushes.
Date: October 2, 1911
Creator: Eichelberger, George W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Flower Wagon in Japanese Garden]

Description: Photograph of a stationary wooden wagon bearing large round multicolored bundles of flowers in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The wagon is located to the left of a concrete path that meanders between trees and foliage, converging with another concrete path spanning across the picture and obscured by the wagon of flowers.
Date: October 1996
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.735843 -97.365983
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Four Seasons Footpath]

Description: Photograph of a footpath in the Four Seasons Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A bench on the right side of the path is surrounded by numerous bushes of vibrant flowers ranging from red to white to pink. The footpath curves as it goes forward into the background, with a patch of vacant dirt in the left foreground. Two statues are faintly visible along the path.
Date: October 1995
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.735045 -97.366074
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Fourth Street, Waco]

Description: Postcard of Fourth Street in Waco, Texas, lined with tall buildings on both sides. Cars are parked along the curbs of the road, and a streetcar line runs through the center of the road with wires overhead. A large hotel is visible at left with a large advert reading "HOTEL METROPOLE", and below that is a sign for a tailor. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalks and between the cars.
Date: 1917-10-11~
Creator: Mann, Fred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Fragrance Garden, October 1991]

Description: Photograph of the Fragrance Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Four elevated planters made of yellow tiles sit in pairs on opposite ends with two long rectangular flower beds in between, and are occupied by short bushes and shrubs between tiled stone brick footpaths. A large semicircular fountain, also elevated, is visible on the left at the end of the flower beds, with small bushes of flowers along the fountain's curve. The garden is bordered by a short brick wall with flourished bud-lik… more
Date: October 14, 1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736706 -97.365435
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Fuller Garden, Facing West]

Description: Photograph of a path in the Fuller Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, facing west. A black decorative vase sits on an elevated cast metal platform, containing a flowering plant growing out of its inside. The vase stands in the middle of a concrete circle, bounded on the right by a short decorative stone brick wall, above which there is a wooden covering. Small shrubs bound the left side of the concrete circle. The path, cutting through the center of the image and leading to the background… more
Date: October 1991
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.740363 -97.364305
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
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