These materials were in the possession of Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling, Henry Nehrling's second wife. Dr. Henry Nehrling was a horticulturist famous for his gardens in Gotha and Naples, Florida. The collection consists of letters, documents, photographs, postcards and monographs which provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida.
Henry Nehrling was a horticulturist famous for his gardens in Gotha and Naples, Florida. These papers are primarily manuscripts of his articles in the American Eagle and other writings about plants. They include a few news clippings, plant lists, correspondence and other documentation of a business and personal nature.
Julian Nally grew bromeliads and other plants on the property that had once belonged to Henry Nehrling at Gotha, Florida. This collection documents both his work at the property and his personal life.
Theodore Mead was a horticulturist who owned an orange grove in Eustis, Florida and developed a property in Oviedo, Florida to research and hybridize plants. The collection contains Mead's notebook and family correspondence, together with a brochure and news clipping about the founding of Mead Gardens in Winter Park, Florida.
Views of Winter Haven, Florida photographs, circa 1920s contains fourteen 8x10 photographs of Winter Haven, Florida in the 1920s taken by photographer Robert E. Dahlgren. Images depict landscapes, homes, and roads during the "Florida boom." The photographs in this collection are useful to research on the landscape and real estate of Winter Haven, Florida as it existed in the 1920s. Robert E. Dahlgren born in Sweden in 1882 and died in 1961 in Winter Haven, Florida. He arrived in Florida in 1911 and married Queena Adams in 1917. Dahlgren photographed agricultural and rural landscapes, bodies of water, and real estate in central Florida. In 1912, he opened a shop on Fifth Street and in 1930, relocated to a custom studio on Third Street SW. He worked with Dick and Julie Pope to photograph and market Cypress Gardens.
