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Box B: 9

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Letter from Isabelle M. Stover, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Miss Sweeney, August 29, 1949 Digital

File — Box: B: 9, Folder: 31Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:IMS 1949.08.29
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,...