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Local Conditions: One Hundred Views of Mount Rainier (At Least), Chandler O’Leary
It’s time for May’s Archives Hashtag Party! This month’s theme is #ArchivesInBloom. We love these vistas of Mount Rainier with flowers featured in one of our new acquisitions, Chandler O’Leary’s Local Conditions.
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Check out this vintage auto decorated with groovy flowers (and more!) for Space Fair 1968!
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April showers bring May flowers, and also #ArchivesInBloom, this month’s Archives Hashtag Party! Here’s a bouquet of flowery items that we’ve picked from our collections.
Spring in the White House Rose Garden, 4/20/1975 (National Archives Identifier 6829650)
Floral themes blossomed on many of the gifts people sent to the White House.
This plate commemorating America’s Bicentennial features flowers from the original 13 colonies. Carol Craig of Watkinsville, Georgia, hand-painted it after developing her own original design. It appeared in local and state-wide art exhibits before Mrs. Craig presented it at the White House on July 29, 1976.
Helping her mother in her garden as a young girl had planted a lifelong love of growing flowers, especially roses, for Betty Ford. She was honored to receive the Golden Rose award from Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD) in the East Garden at the White House on July 2, 1975.
FTD President Robert Costin and Vice President Don Flowers presented her with the award, along with a bouquet of 50 Golden Wave roses.
FTD gave the Golden Rose award to individuals who enriched the lives of others, often through their use of flowers. Mrs. Ford accepted it on behalf of herself and all American First Ladies in recognition of their leadership in using floral decorations to welcome people to the White House. “I can’t think of anything more therapeutic than spending a couple of hours in a garden,” she said at the ceremony. “So on behalf of me and previous First Ladies – and people everywhere who love fresh flowers – I want to thank you for this lovely tribute.”
Mrs. Ford also brought her love of flowers into her wardrobe. Albert Capraro designed this beige and white floral print dress and jacket for her.
As First Lady, Mrs. Ford wore it on multiple occasions, including the arrival ceremony for King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain. She continued to wear it after leaving the White House as well.
And finally, once you’ve picked your blooms you need a place to keep them.
Imaemon Imaizumi XII handmade this blue porcelain vase decorated with red and yellow flowers and green foliage. Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako of Japan gave it to President Ford in October 1975 as a gift during their state visit. It was the first time an Emperor and Empress of Japan had traveled to the United States.
#ArchivesInBloom #FabulousFLOTUSFriday #FunFact First Lady Pat Nixon worked with the National Park Service to improve exterior White House lighting and created the public White House Garden Tours project. (Images: WHPO-6112-15 & E0635-12)
Ah, the beauty of Kodachrome for #ArchivesinBloom! Here are some spring and summer flowers of 1958 and 1959 as filmed by Frank Sheffield of Americus, Georgia. Frank was an excellent cameraman and filmed wherever he went, starting in the 1920s and into the 1970s. His daughter and grandson donated his 80 cans of films and one of his cameras to our archives in 2009. One of his films, documenting the making of itinerant filmmaker Don Newland’s “Americus’ Hero” in November 1928, was preserved with a National Film Preservation Foundation (@NatlFilmPres) grant.
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Auto Dealers float in the Rose Parade, ca. 1917
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Beautiful Cypress Gardens, Florida--one of the most filmed vacation spots in the southeast United States--shows up in at least eight of our home movie collections. This 1959 footage is from our Conn Family Home Movie Collection. Dr. Conn traveled the world, taking his camera everywhere and expertly editing together his films into a final set of 200 cans of 400-foot 16mm reels (approx. 11 minutes each). He is our most prolific and meticulous filmmaker! I would show you many, many more images of flowers from the 200 reels of film, but I would be here all weekend. Suffice it to say that from Africa, Alaska, the Amazon and Antarctica, to Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Tucson, and Yugoslavia, he always shot on Kodachrome and he composed his shots expertly. But my favorite thing about these elegant films are his titles which, as colorful as the flowers he filmed, are refrigerator magnets!
On the Mauretania, the ship’s gardener attends to plants and fresh flowers for distribution throughout the vessel. Photo undated, Everett E. Viez Collection, SSHSA Archives. #ArchivesInBloom (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx2fUDjAkam/?igshid=o3lkclm2e10u
