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“Harvey’s Grave”
Passages taken from “Slavery and Freedom at Bartram’s Garden” by Joel T. Fry, presented at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies conference: Investigating Mid-Atlantic Plantations: Slavery, Economies, and Space,…
Read MoreFranklinia Series: Franklinia alatamaha’s near relation – The Loblolly Bay
Passages taken from “Franklinia alatamaha, A History of That “Very Curious” Shrub” by Joel T. Fry, in Bartram Broadside, Special Franklinia Edition, published by the John Bartram Association for the…
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A RURAL WALK.
(A poem by Alexander Wilson, Gray’s Ferry, August 10, 1804.) The scenery drawn from nature. THE summer sun was riding high, The woods in deepest verdure drest, From care and…
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Franklinia Series: Finding Franklinia alatamaha (Part Two)
Passages taken from “Franklinia alatamaha, A History of That “Very Curious” Shrub” by Joel T. Fry, in Bartram Broadside, Special Franklinia Edition, published by the John Bartram Association for the…
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Franklinia Series: Finding Franklinia alatamaha (Part One)
Our Franklinia alatamaha is starting to bloom! Over the next several weeks, curator Joel Fry will explain the history behind Franklinia and the Bartrams in a three-part series! Passages taken…
Read MoreLife on Oak Street
The following is an excerpt from “Those We Met Along the Way,” a series of vignettes recounting the African American community’s development in Kingsessing, Slavery, and the Bartram Family For…
Read MoreJames Logan and His Maize Experiments
Passages taken from “Jogging Along With and Without James Logan: Early Plant Science in Philadelphia” by Joel T. Fry, presented at the conference “James Logan and the Networks of Atlantic…
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George Bartram (1767-1840)
(Image: “Goal, in Walnut Street Philadelphia [graphic] / Drawn & engraved by W. Birch & Son.” Philadelphia: Published by R. Campbell & Co. No 30 Chesnut [sic] Street, 1799. Courtesy…
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