Mary Lee Ware
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Mary Lee Ware, daughter of Elizabeth Cabot Ware and Charles Eliot Ware, was born to a wealthy Bostonian family and, with her mother, was the principal sponsor of the Harvard Museum of Natural History'
Mary Lee Ware by farm gate
Professor George Lincoln Goodale
The plaque in the Harvard Museum of Natural History's Glass Flowers exhibit, formally dedicating it to Dr. Charles Eliot Ware.
Glass Flowers gift-bouquet
Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
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Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolf Blaschka were glass artists from Bohemia, Czechia. They were known for their production of biological and botanical models, including glass sea creatures and Harvar
Mary Lee Ware
…Blaschka Glass Models of Plants). She was an avid student of botany, particularly of the work of George Lincoln Goodale; a close friend and sponsor of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, creators of the Glass Flowers; and a leading philanthropist and farmer of Rindge, New Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts. Born into a respected…
Rudolf (standing), Caroline, and Leopold Blaschka in the garden of their Dresden home
The Blaschka-Haus house in Dresden-Hosterwitz
Blaschka model of jellyfish (Natural History Museum Pisa)
Blaschka model of sea anemones (Natural History Museum Pisa)