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“Hearts of Our People” Curator and Artist Conversation

Creator:
Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Type:
Conversations and talks
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2020-10-01T17:00:10.000Z
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Education  Search this
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Art, American  Search this
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Bisa Butler

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
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Lectures
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2020-11-20T23:30:00.000Z
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Art, American  Search this
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Meet John Cederquist

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Type:
Interviews
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2012-12-03T20:40:13.000Z
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Education  Search this
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Art, American  Search this
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Artist Conversation with Consuelo Jimenez Underwood

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
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Conversations and talks
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2022-11-07T14:21:53.000Z
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Education  Search this
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Art, American  Search this
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture: Fred Wilson

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Type:
Lectures
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2021-09-20T21:09:34.000Z
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Education  Search this
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Art, American  Search this
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Artist Conversation with Carrie Mae Weems

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Smithsonian American Art Museum  Search this
Type:
Conversations and talks
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2023-09-21T11:46:57.000Z
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Education  Search this
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Art, American  Search this
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
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The Interiors of Charles Rohlfs - Joseph Cunningham

Creator:
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
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2011-04-24T03:27:04.000Z
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Education  Search this
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Design  Search this
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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The Adorable Endangered Species that Paints

Creator:
Smithsonian Channel  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
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2013-12-10T20:05:40.000Z
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Entertainment  Search this
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Smithsonian Channel
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Aestheticism Meets Arts and Crafts: Decorative Art on Display

Creator:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
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2012-03-13T19:06:33.000Z
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Education  Search this
Topic:
Art, Asian  Search this
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FreerSackler
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
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FreerSackler
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National Woven Coverlet Project: Susan Morgan Leveille Interview

Creator:
National Museum of American History  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
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2019-07-03T16:09:15.000Z
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Education  Search this
Topic:
American History  Search this
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National Museum of American History
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The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American

Creator:
Smithsonian Magazine  Search this
Type:
YouTube Videos
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2010-03-17T18:24:04.000Z
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Education  Search this
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Smithsonian Magazine
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Archives of American Art Short Film Series: Oral History Interview with Ruth Asawa, 2002

Creator:
Archives of American Art  Search this
Type:
Interviews
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2020-05-29T19:17:14.000Z
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Education  Search this
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Art, American  Search this
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Archives of American Art
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Ask an Expert (Q&A) -- Painting the Future: The Art and Craft of Bob McCall

Creator:
National Air and Space Museum  Search this
Type:
Lectures
YouTube Videos
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2010-08-04T19:12:21.000Z
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Education  Search this
Topic:
Aeronautics;Flight;Space Sciences  Search this
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National Air and Space Museum
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Ask an Expert -- Painting the Future: The Art and Craft of Bob McCall

Creator:
National Air and Space Museum  Search this
Type:
Lectures
YouTube Videos
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2010-08-04T18:53:41.000Z
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Education  Search this
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Aeronautics;Flight;Space Sciences  Search this
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National Air and Space Museum
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Beatrice S. Levy papers, 1890-1974

Creator:
Levy, Beatrice S., 1892-1974,  Search this
Subject:
Chicago Society of Artists  Search this
Chicago Society of Etchers  Search this
Citation:
Beatrice S. Levy papers, 1890-1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Topic:
Women artists  Search this
Women educators  Search this
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this
Art, Modern -- 20th century -- California  Search this
Theme:
Women  Search this
Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource  Search this
Lives of artists  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)9632
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)211840
AAA_collcode_levybeat
Theme:
Women
Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource
Lives of artists
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
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edanmdm:AAADCD_coll_211840

Trial Set of Lenses

Maker:
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company  Search this
Physical Description:
wood, mahogany? (overall material)
glass (overall material)
metal, brass (overall material)
metal (overall material)
brown, reddish (overall color)
ivory (overall color)
red (overall color)
arts and crafts (overall style)
Measurements:
overall: 83.5 cm x 87 cm x 41 cm; 32 7/8 in x 34 1/4 in x 16 5/32 in
Object Name:
Trial Lens Set
Other Terms:
Trial Lens Set; Refraction, Ocular; Interior Design and Furnishing
Place made:
United States: New York, Rochester
Associated place:
United States: Maryland, Baltimore
Associated dates:
1978 10 27 / 1978 10 27
Credit Line:
Eugene R. Barenburg in the name of the family of the late J. W. Barenburg, M.D.
ID Number:
1978.2269.01
Catalog number:
1978.2269.01
Accession number:
1978.2269
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Data Source:
National Museum of American History
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http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-0ed7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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edanmdm:nmah_1069101

Oral history interview with Dennis Oppenheim, 2009 June 23-24

Interviewee:
Oppenheim, Dennis, 1938-2011  Search this
Interviewer:
Richards, Judith Olch  Search this
Subject:
Serra, Richard  Search this
Levai, Pierre  Search this
Aycock, Alice  Search this
Acconci, Vito  Search this
Lipski, Donald  Search this
Warhol, Andy  Search this
Sonnier, Keith  Search this
Nauman, Bruce  Search this
Irwin, Robert  Search this
Biennale di Venezia  Search this
Olympic Games (29th : 2008 : Beijing, China)  Search this
Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Dennis Oppenheim, 2009 June 23-24. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Topic:
Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this
Abstract expressionism  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)15693
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)283437
AAA_collcode_oppenh09
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Archives of American Art
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edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_283437
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Oral history interview with Robert Bechtle, 2010 February 8-9

Interviewee:
Bechtle, Robert Alan, 1932-2020  Search this
Interviewer:
Richards, Judith Olch  Search this
Type:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Robert Bechtle, 2010 February 8-9. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Topic:
Painters -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews  Search this
Photo-realism  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)15764
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)287544
AAA_collcode_bechtl10
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Archives of American Art
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edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_287544
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Newport -- Warren House-Tunnard Garden

Former owner:
Tanner Family  Search this
Gardner, Samuel F.  Search this
Lawton, Robert  Search this
Lawton, Penelope  Search this
Austin, Samuel Reverend  Search this
Henderson, Francis  Search this
Brinley, Fanny S.  Search this
Lawrence, Sallie C.  Search this
Paul, Allen G.  Search this
Paul, Florence S.  Search this
Warren, George  Search this
Warren, Katherine Urquhart  Search this
Preservation Society of Newport County  Search this
Gardener:
Pleitez, Eusebio  Search this
Landscape designer:
Tunnard, Christopher  Search this
Provenance:
Newport Garden Club  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
Warren House-Tunnard Garden (Newport, Rhode Island)
United States of America -- Rhode Island -- Newport -- Newport
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes worksheets, site plans, photocopies of articles.
General:
This Modernist garden was created right after World War II, designed by Christopher Tunnard. It still survives today, perhaps the only existing commissioned landscape design by the man who influenced many of the United States most celebrated postwar architects and landscape architects. At only 65' x 42', the garden has an extreme austerity in design with a hint of luxury in its fountains, thick hedges and sculpture. The plants are cut and trimmed into an ordained shape, and the pattern is designed to be seen from the ground, where its curves interlock and turn back on themselves. Only two kinds of trees are used - lime (Tilia) and arbor vitae (Thuja); and three kinds of permanent plants - ivy (Hedera), box (Buxus) and yew (Taxus). The lime trees will eventually be pleached into an architectural block to throw the ground pattern into even greater contrast. The ivy is in slightly raised mounds, edged in places with small summer flowers. The bedding plants are purple and white petunias with carnations and lemon-yellow thunbergias." The sculpture, 'Chimerical Font,' by Jean Arp, is golden bronze centered on a plinth in a black lacquered rectangular pool. The other pools (two circular, one biomorphic) are shallow and painted white. Of note are the unusual shapes of the pruned boxwoods in the shapes of question marks and semi-colons; the colorful flowers; and the 6th linden along the left and end wall, now covered in Boston ivy, and originally painted white to complete a design that very much relied on strong figure-ground relationship.
Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979) was born in Canada, moved to England in 1929 and received a diploma from the Royal Horticultural Society the following year. The period of the eclectic Arts and Crafts movement (which he characterized as "romantic trivialization" of garden design) prompted him to introduce his Modernist views of landscape design. This approach avoided decoration, sentimentality and classical allusion "in favor of functional minimalist designs that provided a friendly and hospitable milieu for rest and recreation." After 10 years practicing garden and landscape work, he immigrated to America at the invitation of Walter Gropius to teach at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (1938-1943). Following the War, Tunnard taught city planning at Yale, advancing to professor and chairman of this department; he did little garden design from that point forward, making this 1949 garden probably one of his last commissions. For the final thirty years of his life, Tunnard put his energies into urban planning and the preservation of historic buildings; his publications in this area include "Man-made America: Chaos or Control?" (1963) which won the 1964 National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion. It is perhaps ironic that Christopher Tunnard ended up of very much the same sentiment as his American patron, Mrs. George W. (Katherine) Warren, founder of the Preservation Society of Newport County (1945). In "Pioneers of American Landscape Design," (2000), Lance Neckar notes that "by the time of his death, he had come full circle to be identified with conservation-and-preservation-oriented attributes toward city revitalization which were antithetical to the Modern movement" that Tunnard had originally espoused.
Tunnard's patrons, George and Katherine Warren, who purchased the property on Mill Street in 1933, chose a part of Newport that was then considered "the other side of the tracks" by their social set, most of whom resided out on Ocean Drive. In New York, where the couple lived "off season," Katherine Warren collected modern art and was on the Advisory Committee of the Museum of Modern Art. Interesting to note that the garden was commissioned in 1949 and distinguished by its functional, minimalist modern design in sharp contrast with its early Federal-style house. The Warrens also added two glass-enclosed rooms on the first and second floors of their home on the garden side, presumably to enjoy this new garden to its full extent. Mrs. Warren died in 1976, bequeathing her home to the Preservation Society of Newport County, which moved its offices to this location in 1977. While the Preservation Society of Newport County owned the property, the garden was heavily shaded by a large beech tree and had become overgrown. It was maintained as they found it without major renovation. The current owner moved into the Mill Street house in 1994 and restored the Tunnard garden in 2001 and has proven to be a conscientious caretaker of this rare, nationally significant garden.
Persons associated with the garden include Tanner Family (former owners, 1776-1807); Samuel F. Gardner (former owner, 1807-1809); Robert Lawton (former owner, 1809-1810); Penelope Lawton (former owner, 1810-1822); Reverend Samuel Austin (former owner, 1822-1826); Francis Henderson (former owner, 1826-1857); Fanny S. Brinley (former owner, 1857-1863); Sallie C. Lawrence (former owner, 1863-1886); Allen G. Paul (former owner, 1886-1916); Florence S. Paul (former owner, 1916-1932); George and Katherine Warren (former owners, 1932-1977); Preservation Society of Newport County (former owner, 1977-1994); Christopher Tunnard (landscape designer, 1949); Eusebio Pleitez (gardener, 2001- ).
Related Materials:
Warren House-Tunnard Garden related holdings consist of 1 folder (10 digital images)
Additional photographs are also located in the collections of the Preservation Society of Newport County.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Rhode Island -- Newport  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File RI201
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The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Rhode Island
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb61a6cdb7b-8abf-4457-9f57-0199646f406f
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref10575

Oconomowoc -- Tatterdemalion

Former owner:
Cran, C. R.  Search this
Sherry, Avery  Search this
Beverung, William  Search this
Landscape architect:
Griggs, Judson  Search this
Consultant:
Sproule, Michael  Search this
Gardener:
Johnson, Kyle  Search this
Johnson, Trevor  Search this
Collection Creator:
Garden Club of America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Place:
Tatterdemalion (Oconomowoc, Wisconsin)
United States of America -- Wisconsin -- Waukesha County -- Oconomowoc
Scope and Contents:
The folder includes a worksheet and narrative description, a copy of the garden plan, and a plant list. The garden is noted for its Edwardian strolling garden, boxwood plantings, and roses, all complementing the arts and crafts style lakeside cottage.
General:
The gardens of Tatterdemalion, situated on a two-acre site, are designed to complement this 1907 arts and crafts style lakeside cottage. The wrap-around porch is surrounded by a stone terrace edged with tea roses and a lavender hedge. Steps to the west lead across the drive to an Edwardian strolling garden, bordered by an antique 1850 wrought iron fence, acquired in Madison, Indiana. Gently curving paths radiate from a circular path which encloses a weeping crabapple tree surrounded by lamb's ears. A low box hedge curves around in a flowing line to define the lawn. A semi-circle of purple lilacs and white Blanc Double de Coubert roses frame a bronze statue of Mercury.
Hemlocks and viburnums screen the adjoining property and form the backround for antique rose bushes, the mainstay of the garden. Flowering continues throughout the summer with the addition of pastel old-fashioned flowers. A dooryard fern garden on the north side of the house faces a small orchard. To the east is a Victorian reflecting pool centered in a semi-circular enclosure of shrubs. A wisteria and rose-covered arbor frames the view into the garden.
Persons associated with the property include: C. R. Cran (former owner, 1907-1939); Avery Sherry (former owner, 1939-1957); William Beverung (former owner, 1957-1986); Judson Griggs (landscape architect, 1987-1998); Michael Sproule (consultant, 1995-1997); Kyle Johnson (hardscape gardener, 1998); and Trevor Johnson (hardscape gardener, 1998).
Related Materials:
Tatterdemalion related holdings consist of 1 folder (29 35 mm. slides)
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Topic:
Gardens -- Wisconsin -- Oconomowoc  Search this
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Identifier:
AAG.GCA, File WI025
See more items in:
The Garden Club of America collection
The Garden Club of America collection / Series 1: United States Garden Images / Wisconsin
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Gardens
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kb6032e5722-d790-4b94-940f-e5e9adb91e5f
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aag-gca-ref11680

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