Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
FMH_2204-2205 |
Object Name |
Photograph, Digital |
Description |
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 the peanuts which show as a sollid (Stuart's spelling) mass of vegetation at left margin. Tellephone (Stuart's spelling) lines runs S. to Fairhope. We follow it N. to Montrose . Down a steep hill back of the trees is Fly Creek. Taken 4 P.M. by Parker, July 25, 1924." This picture is part of a scrapbook compiled by Stuart's family and donated to the Fairhope Museum of History. Over the years Stuart sent pictures to his sons in Oregon about his life in the Fairhope-Montrose area on his Tolstoy Park land. Search "Stuart Scrapbook" in these online archives for other pictures from the scrapbook. From the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation Archives, Courtesy of the Fairhope Museum of History. |
Search Terms |
Vegetables Telephone Poles Tolstoy Park Montrose, Alabama Gardens Fairhope Museum of History Collection Hermit House Hermit of Montrose Montrose, Alabama Round House Stuart Scrapbook Tolstoy Park Ye Olde Weaver |
People |
Parker, Prescott A. (1860-1946) Stuart, Henry James Stuart, Henry |
Date |
1924/07/25 |
Collection |
Fairhope Single Tax Corporation |