Mehtab Bagh Garden
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2013.06 01.03
name: label: Creator
content: Moynihan, Elizabeth B.
label: Collection Creator
content: Moynihan, Elizabeth B.
place: label: Place
content: Mehtab Bagh
label: Place
content: India
label: Place
content: Agra (India)
topic: label: Topic
content: Gardens, Mogul
label: Topic
content: Mughal Empire
creator: label: Creator
content: Moynihan, Elizabeth B.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Elizabeth Moynihan Collection
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content: Elizabeth Moynihan Collection / Series 1: Gardens
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Elizabeth Moynihan is an architectural historian and author, specializing in the study of Mughal gardens in India. 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: .42 Linear Feet (photographs, film negatives, slides, notebooks, land surveys, notes, prints, maps, publications, articles, clippings, drawings.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2013.06, Subseries 1.3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Original Title: "Mehtab Bagh. Includes Material on Project, to excavate and document. Report was The Moonlight Garden." "Articles – Gardens.  Ideas on B's Gardens (Panipat), Pinjor under Misc."
It is situated north of the Taj Mahal complex and the Agra Fort on the opposite side of the Yamuna River, in the flood plains. The garden complex, square in shape, measures about 300 by 300 metres (and is perfectly aligned with the Taj Mahal on the opposite bank. [Wikipedia]
This box includes information about her project to document the site and remains of the Moonlight Garden (Mehtab Bagh) after it had been discovered in the 1990s.
label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection includes research documentation, photographs, slides, drawings, and diaries related to Ms. Moynihan's Moghul garden surveys, and the Mehtab Bagh Garden in India.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Elizabeth Moynihan Collection, Series 1: Gardens; Sub-series 1.3: Mehtab Bagh Garden