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Box E

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Article titled "Freezing Flight of Hummingbirds, by Harold E. Edgerton, R.J. Niedrach, and Walker Van Riper from National Geographic Magazine, August 1951 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 16, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E16:Hummingbirds
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Article on Hummingbirds from National Geographic Magazine, Volume E, no. 2, August 1951 about photographing hummingbirds in flight. With article is a handwritten note in Mildred Bliss's handwriting with the name Dr. Harold Edgerton, M.I.T. and comments about the article. Edgerton is an author of the article.

Letter from Boris Ermolov, Byzantine Institute, 4, Rue de Lille, Paris, VIIe to Madame Robert Woods Bliss, September 17, 1957 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 10, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E10:Ermoloff 1957.09.17
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Handwritten letter in French from Boris Ermolov to Mildred Bliss.

Newspaper clipping "Fragrance Garden" in Family Circle, June 1952 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 14, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E14:Family Circle 1952.06.xx
Scope and Contents: Newspaper clipping from Family Circle with two short articles published in June 1952. One written by Mrs. Zelma Smith, Santa Cruz, California who received $10 and 3rd prize for her article titled "Last Supper". The second written by Fred I. Meeks, Culver City, California who received a $5 prize for his article title, "Fragrance Garden". Mildred Bliss was likely interested in the article on the fragrance garden for the blind as she considered a fragrant garden at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington,...

Letter from A.M. Friend, Jr., Harvard University, The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1703 Thirty-second Street, Washington 7, D.C. to the Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Washington 7, D.C., March 15, 1952 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 1, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E1:Friend 1952.03.15
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from A.M. [Albert Mathias] Friend, Jr. to Robert Woods and Mildred Bliss informs them that at the meeting of the Board of Scholars held in Washington on April 27th, 1951, it was voted to hold a Symposim at Dumbarton Oaks on "Byzantium and the Slavs". This Symposium will be conducted under the direction of Reverend Francis Dvornik, Professor of Byzantine History at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University and it will be held on Thursday, April 24th to...