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Title: Tee to green view of the 12th Hole at the Milwaukee Country Club, Wisconsin, looking across the Milwaukee River, 1956
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1956-08
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Tee to green view of the Par 3 12th hole at the Milwaukee Country Club in Wisconsin in 1956, showing a bunker complex defending the front of the green across the Milwaukee River.

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: 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: Three men, including Jim Watson, examine saltgrass along a roadway in Colorado, 1955
Creator: Wilson, Charles
Date: 1955-10-03
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Three men examine saltgrass along a roadside between Denver and Fort Collins, Colorado, in 1955. Jim Watson stooping. Saltgrass has been high mowed. Open car door and farm fields beyond.

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: 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: View from above of a Lark soil tensiometer on a turf surface, Penn State, 1950
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1950
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View from above of a Lark soil tensiometer on a turf surface, with a penknife showing scale. Penn State, 1950.

Title: View from beyond #14 green back up fairway showing fertilization in process on bermudagrass, Houston, 1952
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1952-05-08
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Three men at work fertilizing the #14 Fairway of the then Houston Country Club in Texas, 1952. View from behind the green looking back up the fairway, with truck full of material parked on the fairway and spreader pointed away. Fairway uniformly straw-colored ("temp. burn" on Berm[uda]").

Title: View from lower end zone stands into the Cotton Bowl, with no Field markings, and "improper cutting", 1952
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1952-06-30
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Lower stands view looking from an end zone, of an empty Cotton Bowl stadium, with grey building in background. Football field is unmarked, and shows irregular mowing lines. Low on-field riser stand to left. Industrial sense of place.

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: View from the middle corner endzone seats of an empty Florida Field, 1955, showing Tifton 57 bermudagrass surface
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1955-08-10
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View from the middle corner endzone seats of an empty Florida Field at the University of Florida in 1955. No field markings on the Tifton 57 bermudagrass surface, fertilized with anhydrous ammonia.

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: View of Thunderbird golf course fairway with waterlogged manure visible across a wide swath of turf, 1954
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1954-10-06
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View of Thunderbird golf course fairways, with large swath of turf covered with waterlogged manure recently topdressed. Palms beyond, with mountains in the background and a row of ornamental shrubs and standing water in foreground.

Title: View of dormant bermudagrass campus turf at Oklahoma A&M, Stillwater, outside the Student Center in 1954, with a lone person walking on a sidewalk through the golden tan sward
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1954-10
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View from upper level of the Student Center at Oklahoma A&M College of a portion of the landscaped campus, including striking golden tan bermudagrass in dormancy. Solitary individual walking on sidewalk across a depressed quad-like open space, with scattered small trees and a surrounding berm.

Title: View of the practice green, with 2 golfers, in front of the clubhouse of the Los Angeles Country Club, 1954
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1954-07
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: View of the practice green in front of the clubhouse of the Los Angeles Country Club in California, 1954. Two golfers on the green, with flagpole beyond, as well as the face and terrace of the clubhouse.

Title: Visual test plot of dye vs. no dye on Zoysia matrella turf, Pine Valley, 1953
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1953-02-18
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive

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.

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