Collection Timeline

1927 to 1931

1927
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood, along with three Iowa State College students, made a trip of U.S. western national parks in the summer of 1927. This video contains clips from the New Mexico, Colorado, and Ames portions of that trip. Includes footage of the Grand Canyon of Colorado;a Zuni village near Gallup, New Mexico;Mesa Verde National Park;Ouray, Colorado;Rocky Mountain National Park;and marching bands at the annual Shrine picnic on central campus. Annotation: Video made from original 16 mm film.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood, along with three Iowa State College students, made a trip of U.S. western national parks in the summer of 1927. This video contains clips from the Washington, Oregon, and California portions of that trip. Includes footage of some of the area around Paradise Inn in Mount Rainier National Park, the loading of logs in the port of Longview onto a Japanese steamship for export, the Columbia River valley, and Multnomah Falls. Includes footage of Portland (Oregon), Crater Lake National Park, San Francisco, Stanford University, Point Lobos in Monterey, and Vernal Falls in Yosemite (California). Annotation: Video made from original 16 mm film.

1929
Iowa State College landscape architecture professors Philip H. Elwood and Walter Popham took four students (Bethane Carpenter, John Hall, Max Bird, and Norman Morris) on a tour of Japan, China, the Philippine Islands, and Hawaii in 1929. This video covers highlights of the Korea, China, and Hong Kong portions of that trip. Includes footage of a train ride between Kamakura and Kyoto showing rice farms, the sacred island of Miyajima (Itsukushima), and Seoul, Korea. Also shows a willow pattern tea house, temples, and the harbor of the Whangpoo (Huangpu) River in Shanghai. Includes scenes of Hong Kong, the upper deck of the Canadian Pacific ship SS Empress of Russia, and views of Hong Kong from the docks at Kowloon. Annotation: Video made from original 16 mm film.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professors Philip H. Elwood and Walter Popham took 4 students (Bethane Carpenter, John Hall, Max Bird, and Norman Morris) on a tour of Japan, China, the Philippine Islands, and Hawaii in 1929. This video covers highlights of the Hong Kong and Formosa (Taiwan) portions of that trip. Includes footage of Hong Kong's Peak Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel, a beach with thatched bath houses, and views of the city from Kowloon. It is then on to Canton (Guangzhou), China, where the tour group sees the approach to Island Park, a flowery pagoda, the Great Cemetery, the Sun Yat-sen Monument under construction, and ancient Chinese temples. Also in Canton they see a monument to the Republic of China with a replica of the Statue of Liberty, a memorial to 77 martyrs of the Chinese Republic, farmers cultivating rice fields and planting rice by hand, a village, and the foreign settlement across the canal from the city. Leaving Canton for Hong Kong, they see Chinese junks on the Pearl River and the Hong Kong harbor. En route to Formosa, the captain of the ship shows off his Chow puppies. It is then on to the southern coast of China near Amoy (Xiamen). Annotation: Video made from original 16 mm film.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professors Philip H. Elwood and Walter Popham took four students (Bethane Carpenter, John Hall, Max Bird, and Norman Morris) on a tour of Japan, China, the Philippine Islands, and Hawaii in 1929. This video covers highlights of Formosa (Taiwan), China, and Japan. In Amoy (Xiamen), China, the group first visits a private home, then sees Camel Rock from the garden of a merchant and the private garden of another wealthy Chinese merchant. From there it is on to Formosa and a shrine at Keelung (Chi-lung or Jilong) and a visit to the city square. It is then on to Taihoku (Taipei) to see a Chinese temple and Japanese shrine, a great camphor tree near the inn, and the proprietress and daughter of the Asumya Inn, Tainan. Also on the island they pass by banana orchards, rice fields, bamboo groves, Chinese homes, and distant mountains. They then travel back to Japan where they see wayside wanderers by the road, Mt. Hiei and Lake Biwa, wayside shrines, and giant cryptomerias. They also see the Garden of the Golden Pavilion (Kinkakuji) and Kyoto gardens;meet Professor Sekiguchi and Mr. Ida, their guides and hosts in Kyoto;see the gateway to Horai Garden;and view a street in Tokyo with newly planted trees. Sailing from Yokohama on board the Arabia Maru, they cross the "gentle" Pacific for the port of Victoria, British Columbia. From there they begin the journey back to Iowa by passing through the Cascade Mountains between Seattle and Portland. Annotation: Video made from original 16 mm film.

1930
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood took students on a tour in the summer of 1930. This video covers highlights of the Egypt and Palestine portions of that trip. In Alexandria, Egypt, the group makes a visit to an outdoor restaurant pavilion and sees a crowd at a railroad station as they prepare to depart for Cairo. The next stop is Heliopolis, a suburb and sporting resort of Cairo. By camels they visit the pyramids of Gizeh (Giza) and stop to rest in the desert near the Sphinx. Returning to Cairo they view the city from the heights of the Citadel, watch the English "Tommies" (soldiers) who are standing guard, and examine Moorish architectural details. Traveling back out into the Sahara where it is 120 degrees, they view the site of the Metropolitan Museum's recent excavations, the Great Step Pyramid, and the site of the tomb of Perneb. Back to Heliopolis, the group sees the Heliopolis Palace Hotel, modern apartments, the grandstand and Sultan's Royal Box, and the Indian Palace. Annotation: Video made from original 16 mm film.

1931
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood took students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States in 1931. The video shows stops at the Great Pier in St. Petersburg, Florida, along with hibiscus and grapefruit orchards in the area. From there the group travels to Coral Gables, where they visit a Venetian pool with a refreshment porch and see one of the formal entrances. It is then on to the Deering Estate in Coconut Grove and Palm Beach via Ocean Drive, where they visit Memorial Park, West Palm Beach patio gardens, and the Everglades Club designed by Addison Mizner. Annotation: Video made from original 16 mm film.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood took students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States in 1931. Places visited on the trip include Longwood, the DuPont gardens near Wilmington, Delaware;the E. T. Stotesbury gardens, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia (landscape architect Jacques Grebey);the Wissahickon Parkway, Philadelphia;"Old Ironsides," or the USS Constitution, built in 1794, rebuilt in 1927, and docked at New London, Connecticut;Harvard University dormitories along the Charles River;the garden of Geraud Foster, Bellefontaine, Lenox, Massachusetts, and the forecourt showing its replica of the goat sculptures in Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy;the home of P. H. Elwood Jr., Fort Plain, New York;Cooperstown, viewed from along Otsego Lake, New York, the site of the Leatherstocking tales;the garden of the late E. Gorton Davis, Ithaca, New York;Creeping Bent Hall;the Cleveland Art Museum and garden;the Lake Forest Foundation for Architects and Landscape Architects;and the Ryerson Garden, Lake Forest, Illinois. Annotation: Video made from original 16 mm film.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood took students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States in 1931. The video shows stops in Tennessee, where they view a Confederate statue, homes in a small town, and boys playing football in a yard. From there they travel on to view a new power plant with a lake, dam, and new community for its workers. Annotation: Video made from original 16 mm film.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood took students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States in 1931. The video shows the crossing of the bay at St. Petersburg and on to Fort Myers, where royal palms line the streets. Also shows the hotel grounds, Edison Park, and the winter home of Thomas Edison. From there the group travels to Coral Gables, where they visit small gardens, Hotel Biltmore, and the hotel swimming pool. It is then on to the Deering Estate in Coconut Grove, where they see the Italian details and the grounds of the winter home of Arthur Curtis James. From there it is on north past a golf club and hotel and past Miami. They see homes and gardens near Palm Beach and visit West Palm Beach. Annotation: Video made from original 16 mm film.
Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip H. Elwood took students on a tour of the southern and eastern United States in 1931. The first stop is Kansas City, where they visit the War Memorial, the country club area and stone houses in the old section, small parks at street intersections designed by landscape architecture firm Hare & Hare, private homes, gardens, a swimming pool with bath house (also designed by Hare & Hare), a small swimming pool in a park, and neighborhood shops. From there they travel to Hot Springs National Park, the Ozarks in Arkansas, and then Natchez, Mississippi, where they see the old rear-wheel riverboat Tennessee Belle unloading flour sacks. In Natchez they also view old homes and gardens, as well as crepe myrtle in bloom on lower slopes along the river and streets. Annotation: Video made from original 16 mm film.