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1. BSS.697-698 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph postcard by Frank Stewart, The Picture Man, of velvet beans in the garden. From the Bass Slosson Sundberg Photo Collection of the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Photograph Archives.

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. FMH_2204-2205 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph taken July 25, 1924 by Prescott A. Parker of his garden. Parker (P. A. Parker) and wife Grace E. Parker lived on the ten-acre lot in Montrose, Alabama adjoining Tolstoy Park, the property owned by Henry James Stuart (the "Hermit" of Montrose, Ye Olde Weaver). Henry Stuart describes the picture in detail on the back: "Parker's garden from an upstairs window of his home. At right is sugar cane, next comes rows of s. potatoes. Then...

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. FMH_2242-2243 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph front and back of Henry James Stuart dated December 20, 1925, taken by Prescott A. Parker (Stuart's neighbor) at Tolstoy Park in Montrose, Alabama. Henry Stuart is standing by a bed of turnips and lettuce, and explains on the back of the photo how he keeps them from freezing. Stuart's cabin is seen behind him; his work pavilion is on the left. The famous Round House will be constructed during the next months, and completed in la...

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. FMH_2304-2305 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated June 25, 1926 by Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart 1858-1946) of part of the concrete garden at Tolstoy Park in Montrose, Alabama. Stuart has planted dasheens and strawberries. Irrigation pipes are visible, as is one leg of the windmill, and the water tank is seen far in the distance. This photograph is included in a scrapbook compiled by Stuart's family of pictures he sent to his sons in Oregon during the years he lived in t...

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. FMH_2341-2342 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph taken by Henry Stuart (Henry James Stuart 1858-1946) on August 21, 1929 of the old "concrete garden" at his property, Tolstoy Park, in Montrose, Alabama. Stuart, known as the "Hermit" of Montrose and "Ye Olde Weaver" has planted strawberries and soybeans. Stuart had built more raised beds or "concrete gardens" which he sometimes refers to as the "new" concrete gardens in some other photos in this collection. This photograph is incl...

   Record Type: Photo

   
6. FSTC-0070 - Photograph, Digital

   Photograph dated 1907 of James Bellangee, a young girl (possibly his granddaughter Helen Call) and a dog in his lettuce garden in Fairhope, Alabama. The picture was printed in the 1908/01/24 Fairhope Courier; the accompanying article states that the house in the picture is the back view of the home of Arthur H. Mershon. See another copy of this at PMG-1212. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives.

   Record Type: Photo