Scope and Contents This collection contains photographs, postcards, stereographs, and slides that document Black American residential gardens, cultural landscapes, and farms, in both urban and rural areas. Also a part of the collection are photographs and postcards of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the Southeast. These images provide details such as garden and campus design, plant choices, farming methods, and land use as well as social and economic conditions in Black communities....

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This collection contains color photographic prints depicting several figures, vases, and flowers found in the yard of Nellie Mae Rowe's Playhouse at 2041 Paces Ferry Road in Vinings, Georgia. Two of the photographs feature Rowe's dolls seated along the exterior of her home. Also included is a photograph of an arrangement of various Christmas ornaments, a flower pot, and a chewing gum sculpture made by Rowe.