Drawings, site plans, correspondence, plant lists, and financial records spanning Eckbo’s career and documenting residential gardens, campuses, recreation landscapes, large-scale planning projects, and a range of public spaces. Project documentation of residential gardens often includes minimal financial records.

Contains interviews and oral histories of Eckbo; several drafts of an autobiography; general correspondence; correspondence regarding the donation of Eckbo’s professional papers; student work including plant identification sheets, the manuscript of “A History of Landscape Design”, and drawings for his master’s thesis, “Contempoville”; travel sketches; poems and other various writings; and photographs and snapshots of Eckbo, family, and friends.

Contains interviews and oral histories of Eckbo; several drafts of an autobiography; general correspondence; correspondence regarding the donation of Eckbo’s professional papers; student work including plant identification sheets, the manuscript of “A History of Landscape Design”, and drawings for his master’s thesis, “Contempoville”; travel sketches; poems and other various writings; and photographs and snapshots of Eckbo, family, and friends.

Drawings, site plans, correspondence, plant lists, and financial records spanning Eckbo’s career and documenting residential gardens, campuses, recreation landscapes, large-scale planning projects, and a range of public spaces. Project documentation of residential gardens often includes minimal financial records.