Flower Garden and flagpole - Arlington National Cemtery - 2012 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Flower Garden and flagpole - Arlington National Cemtery - 2012 / Tim Evanson
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Looking northeast through the hedges and across the flower garden of Arlington House (the Robert E. Lee Memorial) at Arlington National Cemetery at one of the cemetery's two flagpoles.Arlington House was built by George Washington Parke Custis, adopted son of George Washington, in 1803. George Hadfield, the architect of the house, also partially designed the United States Capitol. The north and south wings were completed between 1802 and 1804. but the large center section and portico were not finished until 1817.Designed by George Washington Parke Custis, the garden originally featured a path down the center north-south axis. In the center was a wooden arbor covered in yellow jasmine and red and pink honeysuckle vines. The hexagonal arbor was roughly 10 feet high, with a concave latticework roof that came to a point. Its sides were also covered in latticework, and although the structure was of rough wood the latticework wood was smooth and painted. Wooden benches lined the interior.Two magnolia trees, one pink and one white, grew near the arbor in the center of the flower garden. The south portion of teh garden was mostly shrubs and boxwood hedges. The northern end was contained shrubs, perennials, and annuals, and featured roses and dahlias. Flowers grown in the garden were sold, either as bouquets or nosegays, in order to raise money for the American Colonization Society (an organization which sent freed African slaves back to Africa to live permanently).The garden was largely laid waste during the Civil War. It was rebuilt several times in the late 1800s, and in 1884 a "Temple of Fame" (a Neoclassical dome supported by marble columns) was erected in the flower garden where the arbor used to be. The Temple of Fame was removed in 1967, and the flower gardens restored to their 1861 condition.George Washington Parke Custis died in 1857, leaving the Arlington estate and house to his eldest daughter, Mary Custis Lee -- wife of General Robert E. Lee.It is unclear exactly when the first flagpole was erected at Arlington. At first, the American flag was attached directly to the pediment above the portico of the mansion. The first mention of a flagpole is in a soldier's diary, in an entry dated July 8, 1861. But photographs taken of Arlington House in 1864 show no flagpole in front of the mansion. But official Army maps and inventories of the estate from the same period show that a flagpole had been erected about 20 feet east of the steps of the portico. The next official mention of a flagpole is in a War Department report from August 1874. The U.S. National Park Service places the erection of the flagpole in 1864, although there is still much debate about when it was erected and where.In 1924, the cemetery's second flagpole was erected just south of Memorial Amphitheater. Named the Woodhull Memorial Flagpole, it is dedicated to the memory of Commander Maxwell van Zandt Woodhull, who served in the United States Navy from 1813 to 1863. Just why Woodhull rated this honor is not entirely clear...Flags are raised to the top of each flagpole every morning. They are then immediately lowered to half-mast for the remainder of the day. That's because burials are occurring at Arlington all the time, and the flags must be at half-mast out of respect for the dead. The flags are raised to the top again just before twilight, and then lowered and taken down for the evening. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-04-05 13:46:29 |
| 撮影者 | Tim Evanson , Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
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| カメラ | Canon EOS 5D Mark II , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.017 sec (1/60) |
| 開放F値 | f/22.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 100 mm |