Frederic H. Leubuscher garden portfolios
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Leubuscher, Frederic
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circa 1930-1996
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1.34 Cubic feet (2 portfolios and 106 36mm slides (duplicates))
- Collection ID:
- AAG.LEU
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Archives of American Gardens
The Frederic H. Leubuscher garden portfolios include images that document Leubuscher's professional landscape and garden design work. The collection includes photographs of awards received by Leubuscher for a number of garden show exhibits that he designed as well as photostatic copies of a booklet about artificial pools he wrote that was published by the Fels Engineering Corp. of Essex Fells, New Jersey.
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1995-2001
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5.5 Cubic feet (photographic images; files)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.OCK
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Archives of American Gardens
The Starr Ockenga Collection includes materials generated or compiled by Ockenga for the writing of her books, 'Earth on Her Hands: The American Woman in Her Garden' (1998, Clarkson Potter) and 'Eden on Their Minds: American Gardeners with Bold Visions" (2001, Clarkson Potter).' Both books feature several individual chapters, each describing a garden owner and their garden.
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Sedgwick, Mabel Cabot
Lee, James S.
Gardner, John L.
Manning, J. W.
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circa 1900-1907
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1.25 Cubic feet (120 glass plate negatives.)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.SDG
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Archives of American Gardens
The Mabel Cabot Sedgwick Collection consists of approximately 120 glass negatives of images used in Sedgwick's book, The Garden Month by Month, published by the F.A. Stokes Company in New York, 1907. The book, which describes the appearance, color, cultivation and blooming dates for various plants, contains half-tone engravings taken from these photographs of growing plants.
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Fletcher, Robert M., d. 1995
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circa 1979-1995
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0.25 Cubic feet (268 35mm slides., color, 35mm)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.FLE
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Archives of American Gardens
The Robert M. Fletcher Collection contains 268 35mm color slides documenting Southern California gardens designed by landscape architect Robert M. Fletcher.
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Weller, Eleanor
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circa 1978-2006
bulk 1981-1991
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49.25 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- AAG.ECW
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The Eleanor Weller Collection dates from circa 1978-2006 and consists of documentation and research files relating to the Garden Club of America's Slide Library of Notable American Parks and Gardens (later donated to the Smithsonian Institution as the Garden Club of America Collection) and the book, The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940, co-written by Weller, as well as thousands of photographic images of historic and contemporary gardens compiled or taken by Weller. Materials include correspondence, research notes, clippings, brochures, lecture scripts, photocopied images from archival repositories, and original and duplicate 35mm slides.
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Florentine Craftsmen
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circa 1915-1976
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2 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.FLO
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The Florentine Craftsman Collection contains trade literature and photographic images compiled by the Florentine Craftsmen firm of Long Island City, New York, dating from approximately 1915 to 1976. Most of the manufacturers' literature--including catalogs, fliers, and brochures--deals with outdoor furniture and ornaments, statuary, and iron work fixtures. Some of the materials relate specifically to product lines by Florentine Craftsmen, though many illustrate the work of other manufacturers of outdoor furnishings and ornaments.
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Hampfler, Gottlieb
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circa 1939-1990
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0.1 Cubic feet (63 35mm slide duplicates.)
- Collection ID:
- AAG.HMP
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Archives of American Gardens
The Gottlieb Hampfler Collection contains 63 duplicate 35mm slides of images of gardens in the Brandywine Valley in Delaware and Pennsylvania and Rye, New York taken by Hampfler, the staff photographer at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, from 1955-1975.
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Favretti, Rudy J.
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circa 1950-2010
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31.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- AAG.FAV
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The collection contains the project design records of Rudy J. Favretti. , a landscape architect and professor noted for his extensive work in historical restoration of gardens, parks, and landscapes. He donated his collection of garden design files, plans, and images to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Gardens in March 2011.
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Bedman, John
Bedman, James
Bedman, William
Bedman, Joseph
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1859 - 1984
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8.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- AAG.BED
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Archives of American Gardens
The Bedman Brothers Company Records collection focuses primarily on the business and financial transactions of Bedman Brothers seed company of Rahway, New Jersey, and includes accounting ledgers, purchase orders, price lists, miscellaneous business and family correspondence, and various brochures, pamphlets and leaflets related to horticultural topics. Other holdings in the collection include World War II ration stamps and two scrapbooks, one of which contains many late nineteenth and early twentieth century chromo-lithographed trade cards (primarily from the sewing, clothing, and floral industries). The other scrapbook holds news clippings from the Civil War period. Seperated materials include seed gathering equipment used by field workers.
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circa 1920-
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10.5 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- AAG.BIO
- Repository:
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Archives of American Gardens
The Archives of American Gardens biographical information vertical file contains biographical material on numerous landscape architects, garden designers and horticulturists compiled from various published sources.
