Box B: 1
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Correspondence, June 1922 to December 1937
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
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Collection:
Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Series:
Correspondence
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Sub-Series:
Beatrix Farrand / Mildred Bliss
Sub-Group — Box: B: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001
Scope and Contents:
The Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives is a collection of over 6278 individual items of textual materials, drawings, and photographs that document the creation and development of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Washington, D.C. between 1920-1979. Robert Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss purchased the 53 acre property in 1920 known as "The Oaks" and later as Dumbarton Oaks, and within a year they hired Beatrix Farrand, a landscape gardener, to design a garden for the property that combined French,...
Letter with enclosed black and white photograph from Beatrix Farrand, 21 East Eleventh Street, New York to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1785 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D.C., April 14, 1923 Digital
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
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Collection:
Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
/
Series:
Correspondence
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Sub-Series:
Beatrix Farrand / Mildred Bliss
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Sub-Group:
Correspondence
File — Box: B: 1, Folder: 6Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1923.04.14
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter handsigned with initials, B.F. on Beatrix Farrand embossed letterhead. The enclosed photographs are cedar trees being offered by Mr. Charles Sprague Sargent from the Arnold Arboretum. The letter lists the cost for three of them for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, North Vista garden area.