RECORDS: 151 - 175 of 271
Letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, September 1, 1942 Digital
Copy of typescript letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand tells her he spoke to Robert and Mildred Bliss who told them their decision about the tablets. He is confident Beatrix Farrand, Ruth Havey, and John Thacher can come up a design that pleases the Blisses. The second academic year at Dumbarton Oaks begins on September 25.
Letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, September 10, 1942 Digital
Letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, September 16, 1942 Digital
Letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, May 21, 1942 Digital
Copy of typescript letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand tells her there are preparations being made for the Blisses return and Dumbarton Oaks is in a state of jitters. He thinks it would be helpful for Farrand to meet with the Blisses and the National Park personal, Irving Root and Mr. Kline.
Letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, Valley Club of Montecito, Santa Barbara, California, April 7, 1942 Digital
Letter from Joyce Gascoigne, 2820 Thirty-fourth Place, Washington, D.C. to Robert Woods Bliss, 1947-1949 Digital
Letter from Julia Wightman to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, May 23, 1959 Digital
Letter from Katherine Harvey, Brooklawn, Unionville, Chester County, Pennsylvania to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, between 1933-1960 Digital
Letter from Langdon Warner, 63 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts to Bob, January 24, 1943 Digital
Correspondence from individuals or businesses with the last name or name beginning with "W". One correspondence is about the Virginia Woolf manuscripts.
Letter from Lawrence Grant White, McKim, Mead, and White, 101 Park Avenue, New York to Robert Woods Bliss, 2750 Que Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., March 2, 1950 Digital
Letter from Lawrence Grant White to Robert Woods Bliss tells him the formula and process for painting the letters.
Letter from Leolin H. Neville-Thompson, 1311 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R. Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and Bliss's response, May 30-June 2,1939 Digital
Letter from Marguerite B. Allen to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, November 13, 1941 Digital
Letter from Marguerite H. Focillon, 26 Rue des Fosses-St. Jacques, Paris V to Madame and Robert Woods Bliss and a newspaper clipping of an exhibit honoring Henri Focillon and Victor Focillon, November 30, 1955 Digital
Handwritten letter from Marguerite H. Focillon to Robert and Mildred Bliss tells them about the exhibition organized by the city of Dijon, France at the Palais des Etats de Bourgogne for her husband Henri Focillon, art historian and his father, Victor Focillon, an engraver. She includes a newspaper clipping of the event.
Letter from Marian Templeton, 6410 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase, Md. to Mrs. And Mrs. Robert Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., April 25, 1937 Digital
Handwritten letter from Marian Templeton to Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Bliss expresses her appreciation of their generosity in opening their estate to the public yesterday. She spent two enjoyable hours in their garden and have never felt quite the same enjoyment in anything else.
Letter from Marion Wade Doyle, Washington Self-Help Exchange, Inc. 2529 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 3101 R. St. N.W., Washington, D.C., October 15, 1941 Digital
Letter from Marvin Ross, Idylwild to Robert and Mildred Bliss, July 14, 1957 Digital
Letter from Marvin Ross, Moscow to Robert and Mildred Bliss, August 11, 1957 Digital
Letter from Marvin Ross, Paris to Robert and Mildred Bliss, between 1956-1960 Digital
Letter from Marvin Ross, Tbilisi to Robert and Mildred Bliss, July 31, approximately 1957 Digital
Letter from Marvin Ross to Mildred Bliss, 1703 32nd St., Washington 7, D.C., April 20, 1957 Digital
Letter from Marvin Ross to Robert and Mildred Bliss, August 6, approximately 1958 Digital
Letter from Marvin Ross to Robert and Mildred Bliss, 1703 32nd St., Washington 7, D.C., September 25 between 1951-1960 Digital
Handwritten letter from Marvin C. Ross to Robert and Mildred Bliss telling them he is so excited to hear what they found in Switzerland and whether you were able to do anything with Juritsky. He reports that three days in London were important for the catalogue as well as the enamel and future plans.
Letter from Marvin Ross to Robert and Mildred Bliss, 1703 32nd St., Washington 7, D.C., July 2, 1957 Digital
Letter from Marvin Ross to Robert and Mildred Bliss, 1703, 32nd Street, Washington 7, November 1, 1956 Digital
Handwritten letter from Marvin C. Ross to Mildred and Robert Bliss wishing them a "happy Dumbarton Oaks Founder's Day". He tells them they were very clever to buy the paste cameo of St. Theophano. He says that aside from being beautiful, it [cameo] helps to resolve an important question about the origin of such objects. He reports that he has found only one other bronze lamp similar to the one they gave to the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, and it is in the British Museum.
Letter from Marvin Ross to Robert and Mildred Bliss, 1703 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C., February 8, 1956 Digital
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- Repository
- Dumbarton Oaks 268
- Harvard Art Museums Archives 3
- Subject
- Dumbarton Oaks Park (Washington, D.C.) 21
- Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.) 4
- Gardens -- United States -- Pictorial works 3
- Gardens -- Washington (D.C.) 3
- Historic gardens -- Washington (D.C.) 3
- Landscape architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans 1
- Landscape architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 266
- French 5
- Names
- Bliss, Mildred Barnes, 1879-1969 242
- Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959 124
- Thacher, John, 1904-1982 72
- Bryce, James, 1887-1964 49
- Farrand, Max, 1869-1945 38
- Sweeney, Anne, 1887-1954 27
- Havey, Ruth M., 1899-1980 20
- Ross, Marvin C. (Marvin Chauncey), 1904-1977 19
- Root, Irving C., 1891-1973 17
- Russell, Ellis 14
- Sessions, Barbara F., 1899-1980 14
- Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965 13
- Coles, G. Frederick (George Frederick), 1875- 11
- Gray, William, 1881-1937 10
- Kingsford, Dorothy, approximately 1897- 10
- Drury, Newton Bishop, 1889-1978 9
- Dvornik, Francis, 1893-1975 9
- Kline, Donald L. (landscape architect) 9
- Lucking, Philip J., 1871-1949 8
- National Gallery of Art (U.S.) 8
- Tyler, Royall, 1884-1953 8
- Carpenter, Alberta S., 1879-1872 6
- Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955. 6
- Focillon, Henri, 1881-1943 6
- Clark, Ethel Burnet, 1878-1964 5
- Delafield, Lewis L. 5
- Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953 5
- Schelling, Ernest, 1876-1939. 5
- Tyler, Elisina, 1878-1959 5
- Bryce, Isabella W., 1889-1965 4
- Der Nersessian, Sirarpie, 1896-1989 4
- Finley, David E. (David Edward) 4
- Friend, Albert Mathias, Jr., 1894-1956 4
- Fulkerson, Mary F. 4
- Grolier Club 4
- Reid, Helen Rogers, 1882-1970 4
- Stover, Isabelle M., 1905-1987 4
- Baker, C.H. Collins (Charles Henry Collins), 1880-1959 3
- Baker, Phyllis, -1956 3
- Focillon, Marguerite H. 3
- Kearney, Matthew, 1909-1973 3
- Kelley, May McClure, 1864-1963 3
- Santa Barbara Botanic Garden 3
- Schelling, Lucie Howe Draper, 1873-1938 3
- Tyler, William Royall 3
- Vasil'ev, A.A. (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich), 1867-1953 3
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 3
- Baker, Francis A. (Francis Alexander), 1907-1966 2
- Blake, Robert Pierpont, 1886-1950 2
- Boulanger, Nadia, 1887-1979. 2
- California. State Relief Administration 2
- Downey, Glanville, 1908-1991 2
- Ermolov, Boris Nikolaevich, 1891-approximately 1967 2
- Focillon, Victor-Louis, 1849-1918 2
- Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969 2
- G. Morris Steinbraker & Sons, Inc. 2
- Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938 2
- Kean, Cornelia Knox, 1875-1954 2
- Kean, Jefferson Randolph, 1860-1950 2
- Kennerly, Claude S., 1869-1963 2
- Lapsley, Gaillard Thomas 2
- Lyddane, Alton, 1896-1976 2
- Marceau, Henri, 1896-1969 2
- Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956 2
- Morey, Charles Rufus, 1877-1955 2
- Ross, Lotus Robb, 1893-1969 2
- Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch, 1870-1952 2
- Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) 2
- Salter, Arthur, 1881-1975 2
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 2
- Thompson, Harry T., 1909-1960 2
- Tyler, Bettine Mary, 1910-1987 2
- Walter, Clementine Maria, 1881-1967 2
- Weiss, Soma, 1899-1942 2
- Acheson, Mildred, Countess of Gosford, 1888-1965 1
- Allen, Hazel R. (Hazel Rebecca), 1891-1973 1
- American Institute of Architects 1
- American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. District of Columbia Section. Women's Auxiliary 1
- Andress, Laura Mae, 1884-1969 1
- Archibold, Anne, 1873-1968 1
- Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt 1
- Balsan, Jacques 1
- Barnes, Demas, 1827-1888 1
- Bassett, Richard H. (Richard Horace), 1900-1995 1
- Beale, Marie Oge, 1880-1956 1
- Beckett, Edwin, 1885-1967 1
- Bergstrom, G.E. (George Edwin), 1876-1955 1
- Bland, Elizabeth M., 1912-1997 1
- Bliss, Anna Louise, 1850-1888 1
- Bowles, Eva H., 1880-1958 1
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1
- Bullard, Robert Lee, 1861-1947 1
- Bullitt, William C. (William Christian), 1891-1967 1
- Bundy, McGeorge 1
- Carter, John R. (John Ridgely), 1862-1944 1
- Coche de La Ferté, Etienne 1
- Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978 1
- Cook, Jane James, 1885-1944 1
- Coolidge, Victoria Stuart Tytus, 1909-1996 1 ∧ less