W.C. Spruance Lantern Slide Collection
About this collection
This collection contains nearly 200 images of estate and private gardens in and around Wilmington, Delaware. Photographed between 1920 and 1925 by William C. Spruance, an amateur photographer and advisory member of the Wilmington Garden Club, many of the images are either hand colored lantern slides or color Lumiere Autochrome lantern slides. The collection has not been digitized in its entirety. For a detailed description of the entire collection, click here to view the catalog record.
- Image: Alice Lea Spruance's town garden. Click to view.
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- Conservatory at Longwood, estate of Mr. and Mrs. Pierre S. du Pont
- The conservatory (interior), azaleas from centre walk
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- Upper Gardens at Longwood, estate of Mr. and Mrs. Pierre S. du Pont
- Candium lilies and canterbury bells, upper garden
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- Walled rose garden at Winterthur, estate of Henry Francis du Pont
- A part of the walled rose garden, showing the walkway and wrought-iron gate
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- Hybrid perpetual rose garden at Longwood, estate of Mr. and Mrs. Pierre S. du Pont
- Hybrid perpetual rose garden, with view of trellis or arbor
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- Steps to Upper Gardens at Longwood, estate of Mr. and Mrs. Pierre S. du Pont
- Climbing Roses, Dr. Van Fleet, Dorothy Perkins and gardenia
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- South gate at Gibraltar, estate of H. Rodney Sharp
- Wrought-iron gate and curving walkway
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- Old box hedge at Gibraltar, estate of H. Rodney Sharp
- Old Box Hedge (boxwood)
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- Border planting of nepata at St. Amour, home of Mary Belin du Pont
- Border planting of nepata along walkway with view of statue under arbor
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- Garden of Charles M. Barton
- Violas, phlox divaricata, retroflexa tulips alongside stone building; garden swing in background
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- Perennial garden of Mrs. H. P. Scott at Lexington
- Poppies, iris and columbine
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- Gardens at Longwood, estate of Mr. and Mrs. Pierre S. du Pont
- American pillar rose on arbor,peonies and larkspur in border bed