Historic landscapes vary in size from small gardens to several thousand-acre national parks.
In character they range from designed to vernacular, rural to urban, and agricultural to industrial spaces. Vegetable patches, estate gardens, cemeteries, farms, quarries, nuclear test sites, suburbs, and abandoned settlements all may be considered historic landscapes. 1921 Black and White Photograph of Italian Gardens. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri. Once completed and approved, the records enter the permanent collection at the Library of Congress.