Rock Specimens
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2013.06 01.01.10
name: label: Creator
content: Moynihan, Elizabeth B.
label: Collection Creator
content: Moynihan, Elizabeth B.
place: label: Place
content: Dholpur (India : District)
label: Place
content: India
topic: label: Topic
content: Gardens
label: Topic
content: Gardens, Mogul
creator: label: Creator
content: Moynihan, Elizabeth B.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Elizabeth Moynihan Collection
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ms. Moynihan is an architectural historian and travel throughout India for several years. She was married to Senator Daniel Moynihan for 48 years. She served on the Indo-U.S. Sub-Commission on Education and Culture for many years. While living in India, Ms. Moynihan authored a survey of surviving Moghul gardens, which was published in 1979 as "Paradise as a Garden in Persia and Moghul India." She also did research on Babur, the founder of the Moghul dynasty. In the process, she located and documented four previously unknown 16th century gardens built by Babur.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: .87 Sheets (drawings and sketches.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2013.06, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sheets
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Organized and arranged in one box.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series is to document the various small rock specimens that Ms. Moynihan collected in her travels. Please see below container list for more details.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Drawings and sketches of the Lotus Garden site at Dholpur. This is a selection of images drawn from various folders in the Lotus Garden series, and includes site sketchs, draft plans, and photocopies of finished drawings with handwritten notes.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Elizabeth Moynihan Collection, Drawings and sketches relating to research at the Lotus Garden at Dholpur