#fairmount park

[orendarling]

Fairmount Park

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

April, 2025

[whatjanewore]

Happy Summer Solstice ✨🌸🍃☀️

[jvstinderosa]

When I dream

[starriverdreamer]

[massivelandcloud]

Sunset at Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery, 21 June 2024

[onceuponatown]

Riverside, California, circa 1916. A postcard of Fairmount Park, showing the lake and boathouse.

In 1913 the firm of Olmsted and Olmsted, run by the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, was commissioned to create a park in Riverside, CA, which opened in 1924.

[dame-de-pique]

A summer afternoon 

Admiring the flowers

In the realms of beauty

Sunken Gardens from the mountain

Fairmount Park Philadelphia, 1902

[yearningforunity]

Samuel L. Evans, 1902-2008, relaxing with children probably in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. 1940s.

Sam Evans, who saw 5 lynchings before he was 9 in the Deep South, migrated north to New York and then to Philadelphia to become a very influential Democratic politician and fighter for equal rights.