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==<h4><span style="color:#616161;">''Welcome to the History of Early American Landscape Design Database''</span></h4>==
 
 
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===''Welcome''===
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The ''History of Early American Landscape Design'' digital resource is an inquiry into the language of early American landscape aesthetics and garden design in the colonial and national periods. Thousands of texts are combined with a corpus of more than 1700 images in order to trace the development of landscape and garden terminology from British colonial America to the mid-19th century. By placing terms in relation to representations in the visual record, the project clarifies their use and meanings, providing for well-informed histories of designed landscapes in early America.
  
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The project is organized by 100 keywords, supported by 100 featured places and historical figures. Without claiming to be comprehensive, this project models an approach to the study of landscapes and gardens that helps scholars consider past cultural conditions, uncover former appearances, and better understand the experiences and meanings of designed environments as they were built, and also as they were imagined.  
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===''Introductory Essays''===
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<option>[[File:0521.jpg|thumb|left|link=[[http://vm-healdddev-casva.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php/File:0521.jpg]]|252px|William Rush, ''North East or Franklin Public Square, Philadelphia'', 1824.]]</option>
 
<option>[[File:0004.jpg|thumb|left|link=|252px|Anonymous, ''The Beehive'', 1800–1820.]]</option>
 
<option>[[File:1677.jpg|thumb|left|link=|252px|W. R. Hamilton, ''Landscape View of a Garden and House'' [detail], 1836.]]</option>
 
<option>[[File:0855.jpg|thumb|left|link=|252px|Alexander Jackson Davis, ''Garden Arch at Montgomery Place'', c. 1850.]]</option>
 
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The site provides information about the history of gardens in America, from the early colonial period to around 1850. The goal of this site is to provide a database of information about, for example, particular sites, images or people, but to provide a large corpus of textual and visual data that can be comparatively examined by scholars, enabling them to investigate landscapes in dynamic contexts and via materials which are rare and difficult to access. Because of the flexible nature of the online format, scholars will be able to consider landscapes as part of a larger set of processes&mdash;social, economic, political&mdash;rather than only as static sites. This site is a companion to the publication [http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300101744 ''Keywords in American Landscape Design'' (Yale University Press, 2010)]
 
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<h2>Keywords</h2>
 
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|[[Belvedere/Prospect tower/Observatory]]
 
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|[[Common]]
 
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|[[Deer park]]
 
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|[[Fall/Falling garden]]
 
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|[[Ferme ornée/Ornamental farm]]
 
|[[Flower garden]]
 
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|[[Fountain]]
 
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|[[Grove]]
 
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|[[Hothouse]]
 
|[[Icehouse]]
 
|[[Jet]]
 
|[[Kitchen garden]]
 
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|[[Labyrinth]]
 
|[[Lake]]
 
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|[[Mall]]
 
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|[[Veranda]]
 
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==About this Site==
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[[Project Introduction]]
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<div style="font-size:14px; font-family: Georgia-serif; line-height:2em;">[[:File:0464.jpg|Nicolino Calyo, ''Harlem, the Country House of Dr. Edmondson'', 1834]]<br>
  
[[Statement on Authorities]]
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<div style="font-size:14px; font-family: Georgia-serif;">[[:File:1213.jpg|C. A. Hedin, “Front Elevation on Live Oak Street,” 1853]]<br></div>
  
[[Project Bibliography]]
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<div style="font-size:14px; font-family: Georgia-serif;">[[:File:0072.jpg|Thomas Jefferson, Plan of an orchard at Monticello, c. 1778]]<br></div>
  
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<div style="font-size:14px; font-family: Georgia-serif;">[[:File:0033.jpg|Robert Mills, ''Plan of the Mall'', Washington, DC, 1841]]</div>

Latest revision as of 15:29, August 12, 2021


Welcome

The History of Early American Landscape Design digital resource is an inquiry into the language of early American landscape aesthetics and garden design in the colonial and national periods. Thousands of texts are combined with a corpus of more than 1700 images in order to trace the development of landscape and garden terminology from British colonial America to the mid-19th century. By placing terms in relation to representations in the visual record, the project clarifies their use and meanings, providing for well-informed histories of designed landscapes in early America.

The project is organized by 100 keywords, supported by 100 featured places and historical figures. Without claiming to be comprehensive, this project models an approach to the study of landscapes and gardens that helps scholars consider past cultural conditions, uncover former appearances, and better understand the experiences and meanings of designed environments as they were built, and also as they were imagined.



Introductory Essays

These essays first appeared in the original publication Keywords in American Landscape Design (Yale University Press, 2010) from which this site originated. The investigation into the history of early American landscape design has continued with the advantage of the digital platform and the addition of approximately one hundred individual pages dedicated to People and to Places to the original one hundred Keywords pages. These introductory essays remain a fundamental contribution to the project with insight and guidance on navigating its content.



Read more about the Center's research projects.

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History of Early American Landscape Design contributors, "Home," History of Early American Landscape Design, , https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php?title=Home&oldid=41372 (accessed March 28, 2024).

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