Long Island landscapes and the women who designed them / Cynthia Zaitzevsky.

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Zaitzevsky, Cynthia.

Title & Author:

Long Island landscapes and the women who designed them / Cynthia Zaitzevsky.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

304 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-298) and index.
Foreword / Robert B. MacKay -- A new profession for women -- Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1872-1959 -- Martha Brookes Brown Hutcheson, 1871-1959 -- Marian Cruger Coffin, 1976-1957 -- Ellen Biddle Shipman, 1869-1950 -- Ruth Bramley Dean, 1889-1932 -- Annette Hoyt Flanders, 1887-1946 -- The second generation, I -- The second generation, II -- A look backward and forward.
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Summary:

THIS BEAUTIFUL BOOK covers in depth the work of six designers--Beatrix Farrand, Martha Hutcheson, Marian Coffin, Ellen Shipman, Ruth Dean, and Annette Hoyt Flanders--and looks at a dozen other less-well-known women. It focuses on the Long Island projects that constituted a large part of their work and brings these pioneering women to life as people and as professionals.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780393731248 (hardcover)
0393731243 (hardcover)

Subject:

Landscape architects New York (State) Long Island Biography.
Women landscape architects New York (State) Long Island Biography.
Landscape architecture New York (State) Long Island History 20th century.
Architectes paysagistes New York (État) Long Island Biographies.
Femmes architectes paysagistes New York (État) Long Island Biographies.
Architecture du paysage New York (État) Long Island Histoire 20e siècle.
Landscape architects
Landscape architecture
Women landscape architects
New York (State) Long Island

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262692
Call No.: BIB 193811
Status: Available

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