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[Conservatory Visitors, Near Waterfall]

Description: Photograph of visitors to the Conservatory at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The visitors, consisting of around three adults and several children, stand along a metal fence looking into a display of plants, with the Conservatory's waterfall visible on the very right. Hanging bushes of purple and yellow flowers, as well as larger bushes drooping along the ceiling, are visible above the guests. Behind the guests are doors or windows leading into the Garden Center.
Date: [..1991-10]

[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~

[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~

[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~

[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~

[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~

[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~

[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]

[Eastern Fuller Garden Construction Work]

Description: Photograph of the Fuller Garden and the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden undergoing work. The courtyard's elevated concrete planters, with yellow shrubs and flowers planted inside, are visible in the lower left half of the image. The veranda of the Garden Center is visible on the left side of the image. Construction workers and gardeners, scattered across the garden, work on stone pathways embedded into the grass. A man in a hat gestures towards an empty patch of dirt to anoth… more
Date: 1990-06~
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