Inventory of the Records of the National Peace Garden 1985-2002

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Inventory of the Records of the National Peace Garden 1985-2002

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Inventory of the Records of the National Peace Garden, 1985-2002

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Environmental Design Archives

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Environmental Design Archives

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Environmental Design Archives

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William W. Wurster founded the Environmental Design Archives (then the Architectural Archives) in 1953 as a teaching collection, following the recommendation of eminent architectural historian Henry Russell Hitchcock. The personal papers and project records of Bernard Maybeck comprised the inaugural donation. In 1973 the Department of Landscape Architecture combined its collections with the Architectural Archives prompting the College of Environmental Design to adopt the name "Documents Collecti...

National Peace Garden

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Historical Note Records of the National Peace Garden, (1985-2002) In 1985, after viewing Washington D.C.'s many monuments to war, Elizabeth Ratcliff wondered why there were no monuments to peace. Ratcliff, a former English teacher from Berkeley, reasoned that since the nation's Capital was meant to showcase the ideals of the country, those who visited, especially children, should come away with the knowledge that Peace is counted ...