Papers, 1914-1957.

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Papers, 1914-1957.

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Consists of correspondence, corporate records, planting lists, specifications, drawings, and photographs that reflect Marian Coffin's career in landscape architecture and her work for clients up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Her clients included: New York Botanical Garden, the University of Delaware, Connecticut College, Marshall Field, Frederick Frelinghuysen, Edward F. Hutton, William Marshall Bullitt, Childs Frick, Frederick Vanderbilt, John Morgan Wing, Lammot du Pont, Henry Francis du Pont, and H. Rodney Sharp. Correspondents represented in this collection include: Clara Coffey, Princeton Nurseries, A. Frylink & Sons, Cedar Hill Nursery, Arden Nurseries, Wohlert's Nurseries, F.H. Horsford, Frank S. Platt Co., Wadley & Smythe, Bobbink & Atkins, Brownell Rose Research Gardens, and Cross & Son, Architects. Some of the drawings are done in colored pencil. The collection also contains materials on Marian Coffin's own gardens at "Wendover" in Witch Hill, R.I. and in New Haven, Ct.

5 boxes; 37 folios; and 309 photographs.

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Sharp, H. Rodney (Hugh Rodney), 1880-1968.

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H. Rodney Sharp was born on July 30, 1880. On June 6, 1908, he married Isabella Mathieu du Pont, the daughter of Lammot du Pont, Sr., thus becoming the brother-in-law of Pierre S., Henry B., Irénée, and Lammot du Pont, the leading figures in E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Sharp participated in many of the du Pont's business and charitable activities. He died on August 9, 1968. From the description of Letters, 1921-1922. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 860...

Princeton Nurseries

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Field, Marshall, 1893-1956

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Bullitt, Wm. Marshall (William Marshall), 1873-

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Frank S. Platt Co.

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Cedar Hill Nursery.

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A. Frylink & Sons, Inc.

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Du Pont, Lammot, 1880-1952

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Wing, John Morgan.

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Brownell Rose Research Gardens.

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Du Pont, Henry Francis, 1880-1969

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Curator of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum; Winterthur, Delaware. From the description of Henry F. Du Pont interview, 1962 Apr. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502900 Henry Francis du Pont was born at Winterthur, Del., on May 27, 1880, the son of Henry Algernon du Pont and the great-grandson of E. I. du Pont, the founder of the Du Pont Company. He was a director of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company from 1915 until his death in 1969, and a member of its ...

Arden Nurseries.

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Wohlert's Nurseries.

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Wadley & Smythe.

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Bobbink & Atkins.

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Scheiner, James.

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Frelinghuysen, Frederick, 1903-1966.

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Coffin, Marian Cruger, 1876-1957

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Marian Coffin was a landscape architect. She entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a special student in 1901 and graduated in 1904 with a concentration in fine arts and landscape design. She studied under Boston architect Guy Lowell, designer of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Also in 1904, Coffin opened her own professional landscape practice in New York City. She travelled to Europe and met Gertrude Jekyll, an English landscape architect. After World War I, she opened a larger o...

Frick, Childs, 1883-1965

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Vertebrate paleontologist. Frick maintained the extensive fossil mammal collection at the American Museum of Natural History and a laboratory on Long Island. He provided funding for expeditions and for storage facilities at the Museum. From the description of Photographs, 1922-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155509767 Vertebrate paleontologist. Frick maintained the extensive fossil mammal collection at the American Museu...

F.H. Horsford.

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New York Botanical Garden

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Delaware College

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Coffey, Clara,

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Cross & Son, Architects.

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Hutton, Edward F. (Edward Frances), 1875-1962

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Vanderbilt, Frederick William, 1856-1938

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Connecticut College

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