Creator
Berckmans family

Contributor to Resource
Purdy, Alonzo

Date of Original
1840/1852

Subject
Landscape design
United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865
United States--Description and travel

People
Berckmans, Prosper Jules Alphonse
Berckmans, Louis Mathieu Edward, 1801-1883

Location
United States, 39.76, -98.5

Medium
landscaping plans
passports
diaries

Type
Text

Description
The collection consists of items belonging to the Berckmans family of Augusta, Georgia: a passport of Louis Mathieu Edward Berckmans (1840); volume containing water color landscape drawings and plant descriptions of a model farm and estate (1846); journal of Prosper Berckmans, titled Voyage en Amerique, 1850 , describing the life and customs in the various sections of America visited by Berckmans. Louis Mathieu Edward Berckmans (1801-1883), and his son, Prosper Julius Alphonso Berckmans, born in Belgium, moved to Augusta, Georgia, and established Fruitland Nursery (now Augusta National Golf Club).

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/guan_0122

Language
fre

Holding Institution
Hargrett Library

Rights