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Box D: 3

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Telegram from Beatrix Farrand, Bar Harbor, Maine to Lieutenant J.S. Thacher, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., June 20, 1944 Digital

File — Box: D: 3, Folder: 23Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, D:BF 1944.06.20
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,...