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Title: Scotty McLaren using a line marker to apply lime to turf cutting research plots at the Toro Research Center in Minnesota, 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-07-07
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Scotty McLaren using a line marker to apply lime to turf cutting research plots at the Toro Research Center in Minnesota, 1953.

Title: Two Toro Corporation engineers take a close-up photograph on a turf surface at the Toro Research Center, Toro Headquarters, Minnesota, 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-07-17
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Two Toro engineers, in office clothes, taking a close-up photograph using a mini-tripod of an object on a turf surface at the Toro Research Center in Minnesota, 1953. Camera case in foreground and camera bag in background. Observer smoking a pipe, squatting.

Title: Cal Gruber and Jack Kreuger view a fairy ring in a golf green at Sharon Woods Golf Course, Cincinnati, 1953
Creator: Matteson, Darrah
Date: 1953-07-22
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Cal Gruber and Jack Kreuger examine a fairy ring in a golf green on the Sharon Woods Golf Course, Cincinnati, in 1953.

Title: Bermudagrass and Zoysiagrass experimental plots established 7 weeks earlier Toro Research Center, Minnesota, 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-08-06
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View of mostly dirt plot with some bermudagrass growth -- zoysia also established 7 weeks earlier. At the Toro Research Center in Minnesota, 1953.

Title: Attendees view turf research plots during the Texas Turf Association Field Day in Wichita Falls, 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-08-10
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View, from outside the plots, of visiting group viewing turf research plots during a Texas Turf Association Field Day, 1953, at the City of Wichita Falls Experimental Grass Plots. Small dry ditch in foreground, with much exposed soil.

Title: Sam Swazy on the turf nursery at Sankaty Head Golf Club, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, 1953, with lighthouse in background
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-09-16
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View of the turf nursery at the Sankaty Head Golf Club on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, with Sam Swazy on the turf and lighthouse in the background. The nursery included a variety of species, including velvet bents, fescues, and other varieties.

Title: The 1st Hole green, with surrounds, at the Sankaty Head Golf Club, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, 1953, with flag stick in hole
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-09-16
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Off-green view of Hole #1 green, with flagstick in hole, at the Sankaty Head Golf Club on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, showing green surrounds and vista beyond. There appears to be an irrigation hose coiled and coupler just off the rear of the green.

Title: Golf course superintendent Joe Valentine points out the spot just off the 17th Tee at the Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania where Merion Kentucky bluegrass was first selected for breeding purposes
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-09-18
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Golf course superintendent Joe Valentine points out the spot just off the 17th Tee at the Merion Golf Club in Pennsylvania where Merion Kentucky bluegrass was first selected for breeding purposes in 1936, seventeen years earlier.

Title: Eb Steiniger, in 1953, points to spot where Cohansey creeping bentgrass was selected for breeding at the Pine Valley Golf Club, New Jersey
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-09-18
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Golf course superintendent Eb Steiniger points to the spot where Cohansey creeping bentgrass was selected for breeding at the Pine Valley Golf Club, New Jersey in 1935, eighteen years earlier.

Title: Eb Steiniger viewing bunker on 15th Green, Pine Valley Golf Club, New Jersey, 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-09-18
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Golf course superintendent Eb Steiniger views a bunker off the 15th green at Pine Valley, including a severely contoured green and precipitous bunker face.

Title: Golf course superintendent Bill Beresford points out the spot on the green of the 12th hole at the Los Angeles Country Club where "LA Bent" was selected out of Seaside turf in 1941
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-10-11
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Golf course superintendent Bill Beresford points out the spot on the green of the 12th hole at the Los Angeles Country Club where "LA Bent" was selected out of Seaside turf twelve years earlier, in 1941.

Title: Field day group viewing research plots at the Los Angeles Country Club, in 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-10-13
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: A field day group of visiting professionals view research plots including several bentgrass cultivars, at the Los Angeles Country Club, 1953. Fence and buildings beyond.

Title: View from tee to green of #11 hole on the North Course of the Los Angeles Country Club, 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-10-13
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Telephoto view from tee to green, with bunkering, of the number 11 hole of the North course at the Los Angeles Country Club, with a sprinkler going beyond.

Title: A group of men in a circle viewing turf on the inside track at Santa Anita Park racetrack, California, 1953, with the dirt track and the grandstand in the background, during a field day event
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-10-13
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View from the middle endzone seats of an empty Rose Bowl stadium, with field markings for American football. Field well worn.

Title: Three men looking over the newly established Hollywood Hills cemetery in Los Angeles, 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-10-14
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive

Title: View from the middle endzone seats of the Rose Bowl field, California, with no people in sight, 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-10-14
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View from the middle endzone seats of an empty Rose Bowl stadium, with field markings for American football. Field well worn, 1953.

Title: Mid-range view of a Toro mower with a chrome moly front catcher bracket, 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-10-14
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Mid-range view of a Toro mower showing a chrome moly front catcher bracket (left side) at Forest Lawn cemetery, 1953.

Title: Two workers rake bermudagrass stolons out of a golf green collar in preparation for seeding ryegrass, Arizona Country Club, Phoenix, 1953
Date: 1953-10-16
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Two workers rake bermudagrass stolons out of a golf green collar in preparation for seeding ryegrass, Arizona Country Club, Phoenix, 1953. A cluster of 4 others examine the green surface to the side.

Title: Warren Bidwell on a U-3 bermudagrass establishment plot at the Seaview Country Club, New Jersey, in 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-11-11
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Warren Bidwell on a a plot of U-3 bermudagrass established 4 months previously, at the Seaview Country Club, New Jersey, in 1953. Frost & ice damage indicated, but spread noted.

Title: Jack Kolb applying an experimental snowmold control on the research plots, Toro Research Center, Toro Headquarters, Minnesota, 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-11-13
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Jack Kolb using a hand sprayer to treat a research plots at the Toro Research Center at Toro Headquarters.

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