Brookgreen Gardens Photographs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0318
The collection contains 70 black and white prints of sculptures located in Brookgreen Gardens, and an envelope containing five pamphlets. The collection is arranged numerically according to a "List of Photographs" found in the file. Each numbered photograph is also labeled with the title of the sculpture and the name of the sculptor. The pamphlets are printed material from 1936 and 1937, with two describing Brookgreen Gardens in general terms, and three describing sculptures by artists Chester Beach, Allan Clark and Carl Paul Jennewein.
Brookgreen Gardens was incorporated on July 13, 1931 by Archer Milton Huntington and Anna Hyatt Huntington of New York City. Archer Huntington was an industrialist, scholar and founder of several cultural institutions. His wife Anna Hyatt Huntington was an award-winning sculptor. The property, originally purchased by the Huntingtons as a winter retreat, incorporated four historic plantation properties in the Georgetown County, South Carolina near Murrells Inlet. The purpose of incorporating Brookgreen Gardens was to create an outdoor exhibit of American figurative sculpture, a revolutionary concept in museum display for the time period, and a preserve of native flora and fauna of the Southeast. Since its original creation, its mission has been expanded to include preservation of historic sites on the property and to preserve the culture of the English, Scots-Irish, French Huguenots and African slave/Gullah culture. The property today encompasses 9,000 acres in Georgetown County, including Huntington Beach State Park and a portion of Sandy Island.
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English
The photographs are organized by number corresponding to a typewritten list contained in the record.
Transferred from the Cooper Library reference desk in 1987.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository