Bellingrath Gardens Photograph Sources at The McCall Library
The exit path at Bellingrath Gardens, c. 1950. Bellingrath Gardens Lantern Slide Collection.
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BELLINGRATH, WALTER (90-02-212)
This collection contains 267 nitrate negatives (3 1/2 x 5 1/2) taken around 1920 of
the Bellingrath family and home. A few prints have been made, but there is no index
or documentation for these negatives.
BELLINGRATH GARDENS (01-02-373)
Subjects in this small collection include various groups and the following garden
locations: the spring house, the totem pole, the entrance, Bellcamp Lodge, the carriage
house, the rope swing, the pier, and construction of the home. The images also show
transportation of azaleas and azalea scenes at the Bellingrath home on Ann Street.
Taken in the 1920s and 1930s, there are 47 nitrate negatives (4 x 5) in this collection.
BELLINGRATH GARDENS (11-04-535)
Consists of 558 glass lantern slides, 155 two-by-two black and white negatives, and
three 35mm negatives. Images include shots of the grounds and buildings at Bellingrath,
as well as of the Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo and Fort Gaines. The lantern slides date
from the mid-1930s to the late 1940s; the Fishing Rodeo negatives were made in 1957
and the shots of Fort Gaines in 1956.