Box B: 9
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Telegram from Beatrix Farrand, Bar Harbor, Maine to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28 Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., July 8, 1949 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 / Mildred Bliss
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Sub-Group:
Correspondence
File — Box: B: 9, Folder: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1949.07.08
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,...