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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: Mowing variations between rough, collar, and green on hole No. 9 at Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, 1954
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1954-04
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View of a portion of the 9th green at the Lehigh Valley Country Club, Pennsylvania, in 1954, showing mowing height contrasts between the green, a wide collar, and the adjacent rough. Green mowed at 1/4", collar at 3/8", and rough at 1 1/4".

Title: No. 15 tee at Overbrook in Pennsylvania in 1954, showing the contrast between brown bermudagrass in foreground and green bentgrass further away
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1954-04
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View of No. 15 tee at the Overbrook Country Club, Pennsylvania, in 1954, with bermudagrass cover in the foreground, very brown, and bentgrass cover in the background, looking green.

Title: No. 17 green at Rolling Greens Golf Club in Pennsylvania in 1954, with the surface covered with wild cherry flower petals - "Snow in April"
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1954-04
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View of 2 men on the No. 17 green at the Rolling Greens Golf Club, Pennsylvania, in 1954, with flagstick in hole. Green surface covered with wild cherry flower petals "Snow in April".

Title: O. J. Noer takes a photograph of Scotty McLaren with a gang mower on a turf surface at the Toro Research Center, Toro Headquarters, Minnesota, 1955
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1955-05-05
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: O. J. Noer takes a picture of Scotty McLaren with a gang mower and tractor on a turf surface at the Toro Research Center in Minnesota, 1955. Houses beyond in background.

Title: Onfield view looking towards endzone of a football field being topdressed with peat using an Ezee Flow drop spreader, 1952
Date: 1952-05-17
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Onfield view looking towards an end zone, of an Ezee Flow spreader, from behind, distributing peat ("60 yards") on a football field within an empty, single course concrete stadium, with a fieldhouse-like building in the background. One operator appears to be driving the tractor and another standing on the hitch. Industrial sense of place.

Title: Pearlwort weed in a greens-grade turf surface during the 1952 University of Rhode Island Turf Field Day
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1952-08
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Eye-level image of a pearlwort (Sagina spp.) weed within a greens-grade turf surface on a lined research plot at the University of Rhode Island turf research plots during the URI Field Day in 1952, with pen indicating scale, and partial golf shoes showing.

Title: Removal of bermudagrass encroaching into a bentgrass green at the Army-Navy Country Club in Virginia, 1954, by digging it out totally
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1954-11-15
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Four men on a green at the Army-Navy Country Club, 1954. Two workers are digging a hole to remove bermudagrass from the bentgrass putting surface. Wheelbarrow full of removed material awaits removal on a board walkway laid over the green. Row of bushes behind, trees beyond. Golf course superintendent Jimmy Thomas and Admiral Phillips review the work.

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: 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: Severely countoured golf green at the La Gorce Country Club, Miami Beach, 1953, with 3 men indicating elevation variations
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-04-20
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: On a green, with flagstick in the hole, at the La Gorce Country Club in Miami Beach, Florida, in 1953, three standing men show the severe green contouring. Vegetation and buildings in background.

Title: Six men, including Dr. James Watson, in discussion stand on a striated turf at Midland Country Club, Texas, 1951
Date: 1951-03-21
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Six men,including Dr. James Watson, in discussion stand on a striated turf at Midland Country Club, Texas, 1951.

Title: Six stooping men discuss turf conditions on a bermudagrass fairway at the Desert Inn Golf Club, Las Vegas, 1954
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1954-10-01
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View of a fairway at the Desert Inn Golf Club, Las Vegas, in 1954, with turf experts consulting around soil probes. Mountains and limited trees or buildings in the background.

Title: Snowmold research plots at the Toro Research Center in Minnesota, 1955
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1955-03-11
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View of lined snowmold plots at the Toro Research Center, in Minnesota, 1955. Small amounts of snow in background, cars in lot in the back corner.

Title: Soil layer cross-section image of how drum aerifier spoons enter and exit a soil profile
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 19xx
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Cross section soil profile image showing drum aerifier spoons entering and exiting the soil. Probably fake subsoil horizons.

Title: Suburban front yards in Houston looking mid-yard along the street, with fertilized and unfertilized St. Augustinegrass lawns, and concrete driveways transecting, 1952
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1952-11-21
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View looking along the street, from mid-front yard, of a suburban Houston community, with a fertilized St. Augustine grass lawn in contrast to other lawns. One vehicle in a transecting concrete driveway and one going away down the street, with a bicycle 2 houses down. 1952.

Title: Superintendent Bob Williams examines a mixed stand of bentgrass and annual bluegrass, under high moisture and temperatures, with the Poa annua going out, Beverly Country Club, Chicago, in 1955
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1955-09-12
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Golf Course Superintendent Bob Williams stooping on a mixed stand of bentgrass and annual bluegrass at the Beverly Country Club, Chicago, in 1955. The Poa annua has died back while the Agrostis has not. Soil has been supersaturated with high temperatures.

Title: Superintendent Bob Williams on the turf nursery at the Beverly Country Club, Chicago, in 1955
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1955-09-12
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Golf Course Superintendent Bob Williams stooping on the large turf nursery at the Beverly Country Club, Chicago, in 1955. The nursery included Merion Kentucky bluegrass, C-15 (Toronto) creeping bentgrass, and zoysia. Spiffy blue vehicle in the background.

Title: Superintendent Frank Dinelli at the zoysia section of the turf nursery at the Northmoor Country Club, Illinois, 1955
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1955-09
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Frank Dinelli and another man behind the zoysia section of the nursery at the Northmoor Country Club in Illinois in 1955. Annual grasses to right side and mixed vegetation beyond.

Title: Tee to Green view of the 17th 12th Hole at the Indian Creek Country Club, Florida, 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-04-17
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Tee to green view of the 17th [12th] hole at the Indian Creek Country Club, in Miami Beach Florida in 1953, showing beach, palms, and bunkering.

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