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Starting with the 10,000 volumes given by Mr. and Mrs. Bliss, the Dumbarton Oaks collection has grown to a library of 50,000. The museum, itself, has been augmented by acquisitions of Byzantine coins, seals, and other relics, mostly purchased with funds from the Bliss endowment. The library and collection are the nucleus for the studies of Byzantine scholars, junior fellows on renewable appointments, resident profesors, who are members of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and visiting professors, mostly from the European centers of Byzantine studies. The administration of the Research Library is handled by the Trustees...
...lighter side of Dumbarton Oaks is the gardens surrounding it. The part of the property owned by Harvard covers nearly two city blocks in width and extends over a mile in length. The grounds run from Georgetown, the oldest section of Washington, to the newer but equally plush Embassy Row on Massachusetts Avenue. The grounds around the main building, which houses the library, museum, and study rooms, are covered with the most beautiful formal gardens in Washington. Not an American Versailles, Dumbarton Oaks, with its fountains, box hedges, and old shade trees, does manage to retain an aristocratic aura...
...touring garden clubs, Dumbarton Oaks is a "must." To more politicallyminded Washingtonians it is the site of the 1945 post-war financial conference, which laid the groundwork for subsequent United States international monetary policies. To students of Byzantine lore, however, Harvard's center is the nucleus of American activity in their field...
...actual work at Dumbarton Oaks is completely informal. The Fellows are all engaged in projects, generaly requiring a year to complete, while the resident and visiting professors act as advisors and work on their own research. The facilities for research are superlative. not only because they are extensive, but also because nearly all the material is under one roof. The compactness of Dumbarton Oaks is one of its major advantages. The library, itself, is a tribute to the devotion and energies of the former Director, Professor Albert M. Friend, and Professor Milton V. Anastos. These gentlemen, supplied with funds from...
Aside from harboring and encouraging students, Dumbarton Oaks plays a substantial part in adding to the already available knowledge on the Byzantine period. It conducts a syposium every April and then publishes the report of the discussions of the most eminent scholars in the field, from America and abroad...