Box D: 3
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Valley Club of Montecito, P.O. Box 1140, Santa Barbara, California to Lieutenant John S. Thacher, U.S.N., Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 3101 "R" Street, Washington, D.C., March 22, 1944 Digital
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 / John Thacher
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Sub-Group:
Correspondence
File — Box: D: 3, Folder: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, D:BF 1944.03.22
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,...