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"Letter from a Listener"

An excerpt from Eleanor Roosevelt's radio program.

"Interview with Ruth Brall"

Radio broadcast interview with Ruth Brall, a WPA sculptor.

The horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste, August 1846, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 56-57

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A double-page spread from the August 1846 issue of Downing's Horticulturist, titled 'A New Vinery at Blithewood,' and featuring Robert Donaldson's Blithewood.

Hyde Park Post Office Mural: Exchange of Produce for Goods, 1870

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Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 13. From "Murals in the Hyde Park Post Office": "1870-- The weekly Saturday trip to exchange farm produce for town goods passes Israel Carter's Sharp Tool Factory. John Greene Briggs and Isabel GIbbs DeGroff ride on…

"A Visit to Montgomery Place"

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Nationally celebrated landscape designer, A. J. Downing, (1815-1852), 1847 article, "A Visit to Montgomery Place," which appeared in The Horticulturalist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, indicates Downing's high esteem for the grounds at…