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[Dry Garden Base Construction #1]

Description: Photograph of the base of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden under construction at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden, which consists of a rectangular enclosure of concrete stilts stuck into the ground. Numerous trenches have been dug around the concrete stilts, which have steel wires projecting out from them, to be used by the wooden frame to be built on it. Several workers walk around the base, and a white truck is visible parked behind the dry garden at right.
Date: 1970-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736200 -97.365753

[Dry Garden Base Construction #2]

Description: Photograph of the base of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden under construction at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden, which consists of a rectangular enclosure of concrete stilts stuck into the ground. Wooden planks have been laid across pairs of stilts, each holding joints for wooden ribs to be laid in between. Several wires are laid across the dry garden's gravel space.
Date: 1970-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736187 -97.365763

[Dry Garden Base Construction #3]

Description: Photograph of the base of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden under construction at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden, which consists of a rectangular enclosure of concrete stilts stuck into the ground. A tractor drives between the stilts, away from the camera, dragging a tool with it and being watched by two workers. An excavator is visible at left between the stilts, and a white truck is parked at right next to a stack of timber.
Date: 1970-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736205 -97.365777

[Dry Garden Enclosure Construction]

Description: Photograph of the enclosure of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden under construction at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. The enclosure, built on short round concrete stilts, has a completed frame, with narrow wooden strips used for parts of the outside wall of the enclosure. The ceiling and several portions of the outside wall remain incomplete. The dry garden's boulders are visible in the garden itself, as well as a tall power pole.
Date: 1970-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736211 -97.365753

[Dry Garden Frame Construction]

Description: Photograph of a corner of the wooden frame of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden under construction in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, built on multiple short round concrete stilts. One side has not yet been fully built, with numerous exposed joints in the structure at left. Two saw horses rest near the dry garden's base, while pieces of lumber are scattered under and around the frame.
Date: 1970-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736265 -97.365676

[Dry Garden Landscape Construction]

Description: Photograph of construction of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden at the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. Workers dig trenches with pickaxes and other tools alongside the gravel landscape of the dry garden, with a small yellow trencher machine and a small tractor driven by another worker besides them. The construction takes place within the unbuilt enclosure of the dry garden, its concrete stilts visible around the workers.
Date: 1970-06~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736054 -97.365736

[Dry Landscape Garden in Winter]

Description: Photograph of the Karesansui Dry Landscape Garden covered in snow at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The dry garden contains an arrangement of rocks placed around the garden space, bordered by wooden barriers. Around the garden is a footpath with a metal outer wall and a covered roof. The garden's surface, as well as the rocks, the garden barrier, and the footpath's roof are covered in snow and ice.
Date: [..1976-11]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.736081 -97.365687

[Fall Festival Tea Ceremony]

Description: Photograph of a tea ceremony in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Observers watch a woman, dressed in a kimono, with her tea set, hand fans, and box of origami paper set atop a wooden table. She sits on a tatami mat placed upon a wooden floor. The ceremony takes place in a small teahouse with opened shoji doors and a scroll illustration of a Japanese maiden attached to the wall.
Date: [..1977-05]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.737374 -97.365257

[Japanese Garden, Completed Footpaths #1]

Description: Photograph of completed concrete footpaths in the Fort Worth Japanese Garden. At bottom is a set of stairs, the footpath descending from a hill visible at bottom right. It splits into two, the rightmost path curling around a small dirt basin at left. Several portions of the footpath remain attached to steel sidings, with mostly barren dirt and some bare trees alongside the paths.
Date: 1972-03~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: None

[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

[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

[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
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