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Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney, January 19, 1945

 
Accession number B:BF 1945.01.19
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1945
Work types
correspondence

Description

Discusses a letter that Beatrix Farrand is sending to John Thacher about using twenty possible Stewart Brothers photographs of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens for postcards. For producing postcards, other firms, such as Jaffe or Oxford University Press should be considered as Stewart Brothers prices are high. The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden received 1000 both black and white and color postcards for $25.00.

Enclosed was three or four samples from different makers which are no longer with letter.

Typewritten letter on Beatrix Farrand's, The Valley Club of Montecito letterhead.

Handwritten signature by Beatrix Farrand in black ink.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

picture postcards
postcards
photographs
John Thacher
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Oxford University Press
Finley, David E. (David Edward)
samples
cost
printing (process)
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Arthur Jaffe, Inc.
Bliss, Mildred, 1879-1969
letters (correspondence)
Stewart Bros. Photographers
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C)