Ford, Henry
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, bills, orders, vouchers, subject files on landscaping and garden ornamentation, lectures, articles, printed material, a broadside. Photographs, planting plans, and oversize drawings and blueprints of gardens and landscape designs by Ellen Shipman.
Also material regarding the Lord and Schryver: Shaping our Cultural Landscape exhibit in 2011 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.
Also Angell, Nicholas B. (June 1, 2011) “Letter No. 3, The Young Ellen Biddle Shipman, our Grandmother, and her Family, 1863-1893.” Copy of a letter to his grandchildren, grandnieces and grandnephews from Nicholas Biddle Angell, EBS’s grandson (son of her daughter, Mrs. Montgomery Angell), about the Biddle family and her early life. Has 14 pages of text, plus 10 un-numbered pages of scanned photographs, including those of the young EBS. #1259m in Box 34.
Dates
- 1914-1946
Creator
- From the Collection: Shipman, Ellen, 1869-1950. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
25.6 cubic feet. (25.6 cubic feet.)
209 mapcase folders. (209 mapcase folders.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
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