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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

[Food Appliance Showrooms, Market Hall]

Description: Photograph of food showrooms during an appliance show in the Dallas Market Hall. The appliance show is being convened by the North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers (NAFEM). Food appliance displays are arranged in rows, with many displays having model kitchens with cabinets, fridges, and stoves. A Toastmaster display is prominent at right. The entrance to the Market Hall, with badge processing and general information, is visible at the bottom; a security guard stands in the e… more
Date: 1973
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.803256 -96.829365
Partner: Dallas Market Center

[Japanese Garden Entrance Gate]

Description: Photograph of the entrance gate to the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The gate resembles traditional Japanese entry gates and has tall wooden doors, a upper level with a fenced balcony and shoji screens, and a tiled pagoda-like roof. Banners hang from the balcony's fences and are posted in front of the gate, reading "WELCOME", "KONNICHIWA", and "good day" in Japanese. The entry gate is flanked on both ends with walls.
Date: [1973..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.735489 -97.366276
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Entrance Gate at Dusk]

Description: Photograph of the entrance gate to the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The gate resembles traditional Japanese entry gates and has tall wooden doors, a upper level with a fenced balcony and shoji screens, and a tiled pagoda-like roof. The sky glows orange from behind the gate, and bright lights illuminate the trees adjacent to it on the left.
Date: [1973..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.735401 -97.366571
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Entrance Gate, Facing North]

Description: Photograph of the entrance gate to the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The gate resembles traditional Japanese entry gates and has tall open wooden doors, a upper level with a fenced balcony and shoji screens, and a tiled pagoda-like roof. The entry gate is flanked on both ends with walls.
Date: [1973..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.735480 -97.366362
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Entrance Gate, Facing Southwest #1]

Description: Photograph of the entrance gate to the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The gate resembles traditional Japanese entry gates and has tall wooden doors, a upper level with a fenced balcony and shoji screens, and a tiled pagoda-like roof. Below the balcony juts out pagoda-like roof structures on both ends, under which trees, shrubs, and bushes grow.
Date: [1973..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.735622 -97.366156
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Entrance Gate, Facing Southwest #2]

Description: Photograph of the entrance gate to the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The gate resembles traditional Japanese entry gates and has tall wooden doors, a upper level with a fenced balcony and shoji screens, and a tiled pagoda-like roof. Below the balcony juts out pagoda-like roof structures on both ends, under which trees, shrubs, and bushes grow.
Date: [1973..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.735639 -97.366159
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Footpath Construction #1]

Description: Photograph of two workers installing siding for a footpath in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. The siding, held in place by one worker, is welded to the existing path's shape by another worker with a welder and a welder helmet. The shape of the footpath visible in the photograph is mostly complete, surrounded by mounds of dirt, barren several trees and a white truck parked behind the footpath in the background.
Date: 1973-01~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736521 -97.366215
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Martial Arts]

Description: Photograph of a martial arts exhibition in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Male athletes, donned in loose black and white clothing, spar in pairs on foam pads along an open space, with one athlete prominently throwing down another at center. Observers, sitting on the concrete steps around the space, view the demonstration from nearby.
Date: [1973..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.737489 -97.366179
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pagoda, 1974 Completion]

Description: Photograph of the pagoda at the Japanese Garden in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The pagoda is made of several tiers, painted red, and black consisting of multiple, unevenly sized eaves and short balconies with wooden fences. A spire rises from the top tier. The pagoda is set in the middle of a large square planter base, which contains short shrubs and grasses.
Date: 1973~/1974~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736083 -97.366480
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Base Installation]

Description: Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. The pagoda's base, a wooden obelisk, is being installed on a stone pedestal in a clearing of trees and bushes by a large orange crane that holds it by ropes attached to the top of the obelisk. Near the base, several workers watch the installation.
Date: 1973-01~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736085 -97.366478
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Completed Base]

Description: Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. Only the base has been constructed, a simple wooden obelisk with thin ropes attached to it at the top and wooden stakes surrounding it. Four of the pagoda's curved roofs, appearing to be made of cast bronze, sit at bottom right in front of the obelisk among a clearing of bushes and barren trees.
Date: 1973-01~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736077 -97.366477
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Completed Roofs]

Description: Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. The tiered curved roofs of the pagoda are completed, installed onto the wooden obelisk-shaped base. Two workers oversee the pagoda on metal scaffolding set on top of a white truck, while a crane is parked nearby to the right of the structure.
Date: 1973-01~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736083 -97.366478
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Roof Installation #1]

Description: Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. A large orange crane holds a piece of the pagoda's curved roof with thin wires near the pagoda's wooden base, which has been installed onto the stone pedestal below it. Four workers oversee the installation of the roof piece as it is raised closer to the base's top.
Date: 1973-01~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736078 -97.366476
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Roof Installation #2]

Description: Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. A large orange crane holds a piece of the pagoda's curved roof with thin wires near the pagoda's wooden base, which has been installed onto the stone pedestal below it. Several workers oversee the installation of the roof piece as it is raised closer to the base's top.
Date: 1973-01~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736085 -97.366481
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Roof Installation #3]

Description: Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. The first tiered curved roof is being installed onto the wooden obelisk-shaped base, being slowly lowered by a crane holding it from above. Workers oversee the installation of the roof part, two from below, near the base of the pagoda, and one from above, on a man bucket at left.
Date: 1973-01~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736080 -97.366483
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pagoda, Roof Installation #4]

Description: Photograph of the pagoda at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden under construction. The pagoda's tiered roofs have been installed onto the wooden base, and a worker standing on tall white metal scaffolding near the top oversees the installation of the top curved roof as it is moved into place by an orange crane holding it with thin ropes.
Date: 1973-01~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736084 -97.366479
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas

[Japanese Garden Pond, Winter #1]

Description: Photograph of the Japanese Garden pond at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden during winter. The pond, frozen, is surrounded by snow and ice; its stepping stones, visible in the foreground, are covered in round layers of snow. Across the pond are numerous bare trees and a small gazebo named the Summer House, whose rooftop is covered in snow.
Date: [1973..]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.737039 -97.365827
Partner: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
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