Fall Flower Show at the Phipps Conservatory

1955

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Fall Flower Show at the Phipps Conservatory
  • Title
  • Fall Flower Show at the Phipps Conservatory
  • Creator
  • Elton L. Schnellbacher
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B020.F01.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B020.F01.I01
  • Description
  • Henry Phipps, the son of a cobbler and a neighbor of Andrew Carnegie, donated $110,000 to the City of Pittsburgh for a conservatory in the late nineteenth century. Phipps Conservatory, located in Schenley Park, opened in 1893 and was the largest conservatory in the United States at that time. The City of Pittsburgh managed the conservatory until 1993, when it was turned over to private management. It was renamed Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in 1997. The main attraction at the Fall Flower Show at Phipps Conservatory was the vast assortment of chrysanthemums in a variety of sizes and shapes, including the giant exhibition mums and smaller-sized blossoms no bigger than a quarter. Through the years, chrysanthemums, that national flower of Japan, have been closely identified with the fall months for that is when they naturally burst into bloom, thriving with retreating sunlight and long, cool nights.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens (Pittsburgh, Pa.).Fall Flower Show.
    Conservatories--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Flowers--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Botanical gardens--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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