Jamestown garden
About this photograph
Drawing by Sidney E. King, published in New Discoveries at Jamestown: Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America, by John L. Cotter and J. Paul Hudson. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of the Interior, 1957.
- Date created
- 1957
- Location
- Virginia
- License
- This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
- Source
- Original image housed by Project Gutenberg eBooks
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This drawing was first published in the National Park Service publication New Discoveries at Jamestown: Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America. The drawing, which shows a man and woman tending a garden, is an artist’s interpretation of life in colonial Jamestown. The man is using a hoe, and the woman is using another tool. The original caption reads, “Cultivating a small garden in Virginia.”
