Notgrove Manor: dovecote garden house.

Object Details

General: Mount reads: "Edward Van Altena, 71-79 W. 45th St., N.Y.C."; Historic plate number: "85."; Notgrove Manor was visited during the Garden Club of America's June 1929 tour to England. A complete copy of the GCA tour itinerary was printed in the Bulletin of the Garden Club of America (Fourth Series, No. 5), September 1929, pp. 6-25.

Place: Notgrove Manor (Notgrove, Gloucestershire, England); United Kingdom -- England -- Gloucestershire -- Notgrove

Topic: Summer; Dovecotes; Espaliers; Stairs, stone; Walls, stone; Stepping stones; Gardens -- England -- Gloucestershire -- Notgrove; Women

See more items in: The Garden Club of America collection; The Garden Club of America collection / Series 2: International Garden Images / United Kingdom -- England / ENG118: Notgrove -- Notgrove Manor

Sponsor: A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

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Related Materials: ENG120120 is a nearly identical black-and-white lantern slide of the same image. Both lantern slides show different croppings, but the unchanging posture of the two women in left center confirms that both lantern slides were prepared from the same original.