Gardens

Manicured lawn and shrubs surround a sculpture of a female torso at the United States Operations Mission Director's Residence in Vietnam.

Manicured lawn and shrubs surround a sculpture of a female torso at the United States Operations Mission Director's Residence in Vietnam.

Arthur Z. Gardiner (second from left) and unidentified dignitaries tour Gia Dinh Province at An Phu Dong, Vietnam. Raised cultivated beds are in the foreground and palm trees are in the background.

A color photo mounted on heavy cardboard showing the Rose Garden of the White House.

A garden space with numerous trees, somewhere in Saigon, Vietnam.

Three unidentified Women's Army Corps (WACs) Captains are walking through a public garden, possibly somewhere near Atlanta, Georgia.

Mary Ethel Noland in backyard garden of her home at 216 North Delaware Street, Independence, Missouri.

Partial view of a large, columned building and garden in front. Although not identified, it is believed to be located in Sochi, Russia near the Black Sea. It is probably a government sponsored sanitarium, one of several in that city at that time. Charles Thayer visited two while there. The individuals in view are not identified. According to Charles Thayer's curriculum vitae: "In 1955 I made an extended tour of European and Asiatic Russia and wrote a series for the Saturday Evening Post on post-Stalinist Soviet Union." It is believed that this picture was taken during that trip.

Technician (T/5) Mertice A. White of Lacona, New York, serving as a clerk-typist with the 5th Army in the Sparanise Area, Italy, cultivates a Victory Garden outside her tent.

A member of the United States Army (bottom, left) looks at an unidentified monument located in a public garden in an unidentified North African city, possibly Oran, Algeria.