Beatrix Jones Farrand collection, 1866-1959.

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Beatrix Jones Farrand collection, 1866-1959.

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Contains material relating to Farrand's personal life, professional career, and the Reef Point Library. Personal papers consist of correspondence, diaries, material from her travels, family records, and photographs. Also includes office correspondence, project files, drawings, photographs, and watercolors as well as lecture notes and glass lantern slides Farrand used in her talks on landscape architecture. Reef Point Library records consist of photographs, prints, and postcards that Farrand collected on her trips throughout Europe and the United States as well as documentation of the library's administration. Books from the Reef Point Library are located in the Environmental Design Library.

16 cartons, 23 boxes, 1 half box, 8 flat boxes, 6 card file boxes, 20 flat file drawers.

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Reef Point Gardens Library.

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Online Archive of California

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Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959

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Beatrix Jones Farrand opened her landscape design office in New York in 1895. In 1899 she achieved the distinction of being the only female founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architecture. Farrand's career spanned the next five decades and included notable projects such as Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C., Dartington Hall in Devonshire, England, and Princeton University. In addition, Farrand wrote numerous articles for publication and gave talks on landscape architecture. Thro...

Princeton University

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The collection documents the physical expansion of the University from its earliest period through the acquisition of large tracts of land in the 20th century, including the properties around Carnegie Lake and numerous farms. Early records document transactions with such Princeton University notables as Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, John Witherspoon, Walter Minto, John and Richard Stockton, and John Maclean. For the most part, the papers consist of standard legal documents with detailed descriptions ...

Dumbarton Oaks.

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Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss donated their home Dumbarton Oaks and its library and collections to Harvard University in 1940 to serve as a research center in Byzantine studies. In 1969, upon the death of Mildred Bliss, her Garden Library collection of rare and modern materials was willed to Harvard, to become a part of the over-all institution of Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University. From the description of Garden Library collection, ca. 1500-1900 (inclusive...