This is one of three experimental school garden projects initiated by the Brookline Education Society. Annie Crocker made the land adjacent to her house available to the Lincoln School. In May 1903, students aged 12 – 15 from the seventh and eighth grade were each given a 7 ft. by 9 ft. plot for growing vegetables. Several of the photos from this series appeared in the newspapers of the time.

The photos on the left are unidentified. The photo on the upper right is looking to the west at the house of Annie B. Crocker at 136 Cypress St. on the southeast corner with Boylston St. The track of the photo on the lower right is shifted slightly to the north with the tops of structures on the north side Boylston St. visible.

[Courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth (CC BY-NC-ND). From the Brookline Photograph Collection published by the Public Library of Brookline]