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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,...

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Beatrix Farrand's historical account and description of Dumbarton Oaks and gardens.

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Typescript letter and draft report with pencil corrections of the Report submitted to the Chairman of the Dumbarton Oaks Administrative Board, on the Grounds of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. This is a portion that provided the basis for the Planting record book and later the published book, Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks edited by Diane Kostial McGuire, 1980. It addresses garden area design and need for replacement plan for the trees and shrubs.

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Typescript letter and Preliminary Report submitted to the Chairman of the Dumbarton Oaks Administrative Board, on the Grounds of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection with pencil and overlay corrections. This document is referred to as the Planting record book which formed the basis of the published book, "Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks" edited by Diane Kostial McGuire, 1980.

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Typescript draft addition to the report with pencil to the "Report submitted to the Chairman of the Dumbarton Oaks Administrative Board, on the Grounds of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection". This is a portion of the Planting record book by Farrand which formed the basis of the published book, Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks, edited by Diane Kostial McGuire, 1980.

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Copy of typescript letter and Preliminary Report submitted to the Chairman of the Dumbarton Oaks Administrative Board, on the Grounds of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection with pencil and overlay corrections. This document is also referred to as the Planting record book which formed the basis of "Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks" by Diane Kostial McGuire, 1980.

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,...

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,...