The 9th Duke of Marlborough commissioned Achille Duchêne to design the Water Terraces at Blenheim Palace – the ancestral Churchill home – in the 1920s and declared the result "far superior" to Versailles
Our 7.5ft palace model is on display through Feb #ArchivesLandscape
🏰1974.03 by WL Philyaw
Large group of Japanese Americans gather for a group photo outside of barracks, with mountains in the background. Manzanar, 1943. Courtesy of the National Park Service, Katsumi Taniguchi Collection. #ArchivesLandscape #ArchivesHashtagParty
Akiko Iwasaki posing in front of barracks and Heart Mountain, 1944. Courtesy of Yoshio Okumoto. #ArchivesLandscape #ArchivesHashtagParty
Barracks in winter, covered in snow and icicles. Amache, 1942-1945. Courtesy of the George Ochikubo Collection. #ArchivesLandscape #ArchivesHashtagParty
A group photo of the Gila River Co-op workers on a picnic. They are surrounded by rocks and cacti. Gila River, 1944. Courtesy of CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections. #ArchivesLandscape #ArchivesHashtagParty
A young girl wearing a coat and boots stands near barracks, Minidoka. Courtesy of the Frank Kubo Collection. #ArchivesLandscape #ArchivesHashtagParty
The #archiveshashtagparty theme for today is #archiveslandscape, so we’re taking a look at the desolate desert and swamplands that the 10 War Relocation Authority camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during WWII were located. First up, Castle Rock behind the Tule Lake barracks.
Last year, ANCM and Paul Rafferty did some detective work and discovered that this #ArchivesLandscape painting by Winston Churchill, long thought to depict Venice, is actually a view of Miami (see the palm trees and skyscrapers?)
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📷2024 photo #ArchivesHashtagParty
Long view of person walking along a vast landscape in Antarctica. Color slide.
LIFE magazine visits Wright Valley, Antarctica: Investigating the world's coldest desert, 1984-85, is our #ArchivesLandscape today!
More from this shoot online at our Lynn Johnson Collection at bit.ly/lynnjohnson-...
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Field of hyoscyamus in bloom, image from Heber W. Youngken Sr.'s personal correspondence and photographs in the MCPHS Archives
It’s the first #ArchivesHashtagParty of the year! This month’s theme is #ArchivesLandscape and we automatically thought of Heber W. Youngken Sr.! Heber W. Youngken Sr. was a faculty member at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy from 1923 until his death in 1963.
Sepia photograph of a rolling plain. Houses are tucked into a small grove of trees, with a larger building in the background
Black and white photo of Lake Kearney from the NW. The landscape is mostly flat, with a few trees and one person in the foreground. Houses are visible in the distance
Two views of Kearney, #Nebraska, proving that Nebraska isn't 100% flat. These were taken in the late 19th/early20th century; the lake one by Solomon Butcher & Son, the other by John Stryker.
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Recognized as one of the most significant designed landscapes in the country, Mount Auburn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 & designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003. Photo: Alan Ward
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Time for a #ArchivesHashtagParty! Can you believe this is Forest Hills, Queens? This 1905 landscape photo was taken from the Backus family's farm, located on Hoffman Boulevard (now Queens Boulevard).
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