Personal Files, Circa 1920's-1979, Undated.

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Personal files includes three pages of blueprints of a house Mulford and Racine Foster built in the late 1950's in Orange County, Florida on a 12 acres of land close to Lake Apopka. The house also known as "Bromel - La" had two greenhouses used to hybrid bromeliads during the twenty years that they owned the land; correspondence between June F. Fry & Bernard N. and Mulford & Racine Foster regarding to fulfill the orders before the freeze. Another letter describes June's doctors and hospital visits in regard to her infections in sinuses and throat. On another occasion, June talks about selling her house and moving from Maryland to California; newsclippings from Elmer News where Mulford's father, Samuel P. Foster, contributed articles on a weekly basis; brief plant notes for Tillandsia Dasylirifolia, Tillandsia Grandis, and Tillandsia Butzii; a book called "Catalogue, 3rd International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration, 12 November 1972 to 30 March 1973" contains Mulford Foster's short biography and a painting "Bromelia balansae"; a little booklet called "Color Mediums" published by Talens & Sons, Ltd., provides information on artists' oil colours and identifies most durable binding materials; and two "Royal Portraits & Testimony" blue folders which lacks materials inside.

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