Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst Project interview transcripts, 1971-1976.

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Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst Project interview transcripts, 1971-1976.

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Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Karolyn Gould for a project concerning Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst; includes interviews with Roger Baldwin, Bruce Bliven, Frances Bolton, Ellen von Voltenberg Brown, George Cushman, Josephine Whitney Duveneck, Leonard Elmhirst, Milton Rose, Frances Tower Thatcher, and notes concerning Whitney Park. Also, proposals, correspondence, and draft chapters for a biography of Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst.

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Cornell University Library

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Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981

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Whitney Park.

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Thatcher, Frances Tower.

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Brown, Ellen von Voltenberg.

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Duveneck, Josephine W. (Josephine Whitney), 1891-

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Cushman, George Hewitt, 1814-1876

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Gould, Karolyn,

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Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst Project.

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Elmhirst, L. K. 1893-1974.

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Gould, Karolyn Richman.

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Rose, Milton.

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Bolton, Frances Mary, 1904-1966

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