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RG1.B1.F30 - Reprint
This folder contains a news clipping from 1987 re the establishment of the Herb Garden at the site of the Revolutionary War hospital at Yellow Springs. It also contains a 2012 brochure printed by the Philadelphia Unit Herb Society of Ameria detailing the current Herb Garden with a plan, a list of plants with associated cures and a list of activities for the Herb Garden.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B3.F14 - Exhibit Report
This exhibit report describes the various panels in the exhibit: the Yellow Springs Hospital; Archaeology at the Yellow Springs Hospital; Colonial Cures; Herbs and Gardens. Also included is a rhyme about John Coakley Lettaon, a Quaker physician.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B3.F34 - Magazine article
This folder contains a variety of materials on Colonial medicine, trees, herbs, gardens, and those involved in these areas.
Record Type: Archive
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RG1.B4.F26 - Document
This directory lists medicinal herbs and their use for medicinal treatment. Included is a plan of the herb garden at Historiic Yellow Springs. There are activities for children to learn more about he plants and a brief history of the medicine practiced during the Revolutionary War time.
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B2.F22 - Magazine article
This article describes the spas north of the Thames River in London. Discussed are the gardens, gazebos, restaurants, dance hallls and card rooms. Leafy walks, tea parties and balls complete the spa scene. From London spas to the spas of Yellow Springs, one can find the same landscape and activities.
Record Type: Archive
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RG2.B2.F23 - Magazine articles
This series of newspaper and magazine articles discuss the spas of Europe. Descriptions of Baden-Baden, Spa, Vichy, Carlsbad and Bath are given and illustrate how the Early American settlers fashioned their spas after this Euopean model. The inns and restaurants, the gardens, games of chance, the tea parties can all be seen at the Yellow Springs Spa. A daily schedule of the day at a spa is listed. One could escape the city life and meet old f...
Record Type: Archive
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RG4.B10.F23 - Oral History Interview
Joseph T. Fraser was the director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Country School at Chester Springs in the 1930's. In an interview he describes te gardens created by English gardner Stedman for the artists to paint. The goal of the school is included in an excerpt from the 1925 Summer Bulletin. The winter landscape school is also described with an excerpt from the American Federation of Arts publication. Roswell Weidner, a studen...
Record Type: Archive
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RG4.B10.F31 - Documents
These materials are about the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Country School at Yellow Springs and include monthly salaries statements; building maintenance information; monthly receipts and disbursements statements; oral histories and testimonials from neighbors, former students,etc.; magazine articles about the PAFA summer school; correspondence regarding exhibitions; letter from Alfred Steel relieving D. Roy Miller, of his duties; articl...
Record Type: Archive
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RG4.B10.F6 - Pamphlet
Two pamphlets describe events in the area. Garden Days 1932 is a tour of Philadelphia area gardens sponsored by the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women. Public Entertainments held at Longwood Gardens Open Air Theatre for 1941 lists the programs presented.
Record Type: Archive
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RG4.B21.C156 - Print, Photographic
Black and white photograph of a garden with gairs sitting around. This photo was taken while the PA Academy of the Fine Arts Country School was in Yellow Springs.
Record Type: Photo
