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Jens Jensen Bibliography

This bibliography was compiled by staff of the Benson Ford Research Center’s Archives and Library Department based on materials in our collections. If you have questions about these resources, please use our Submit a Question feature. If you are interested in duplication, please see our Duplication Resources FAQ.

Archival

• Acc. 797 Jens Jensen Drawings Series
  • Box 1 and 1 OS folder of Henry Ford residence, Fair Lane, related drawings
     
• Acc. 1 Fair Lane Papers
  • Box 41 Flowers: correspondence, catalogs, bills, and receipts for flowers and general plantings on the grounds (includes correspondence, bills, and receipts concerning Jens Jensen and Ellen Shipman) 1915- 1950
  • Box 58 Social correspondence; Jensen, Jens, 1938-1947, and undated
  • Box 81 Cards; Jen-Joh (includes cards from Jens Jensen
     
• Acc. 6 Edsel B. Ford Office Papers
  • Box 7 Jensen, Jens (correspondence re: landscape work at Henry and EBF's homes)
  • Box 10 F (includes Friends of our Native Landscape, Jens Jensen president)
  • Box 11 J (includes Jens Jensen re: delivery of new car)
  • Box 17 FO-FZ (includes Friends of Our Native Lands – Jens Jensen invite to EBF and Mrs. Ford)
  • Box 25 J (Jens Jensen – July correspondence re: topographical survey of Gaukler Pointe property sent to Jensen; August to October correspondence re: Haven Hill)
  • Box 28 ST-SZ (includes memos indicate that both Jens Jensen and Marshall Johnson visited Haven Hill in November-December)
  • Box 29 B-BI (includes Bassett-Anspach – letter states that Jens Jensen has been chosen for Gaukler Pointe landscaping)
  • Box 32
    • J (includes M. L. Johnson – telegram requesting that a car meet Johnson and Jens Jensen at train depot) 
    • M-MH (includes Reverend Bernard G. Mattson letter offering EBF landscape trees – referred to Jens Jensen)
  • Box 34 Superintendent's Office (frequent visits to Haven Hill by Marshall Johnson and Jens Jensen)
  • Box 41 SA-SC (includes Sales Department – EBF's order for Le Barn Allweather Cabriolet and a memo re: car for Jens Jensen)
  • Box 42 SQ-SZ (includes Superintendent's Office memo re: Jens Jensen)
  • Box 54 SA-SH (includes Service memos – pick up Jens Jensen and Marshall Johnson)
  • Box 74 SEA-SEY (includes Service, Jens Jensen visits Haven Hill & Gaukler Pointe homes)
  • Box 83 JE-JU (includes Jens Jensen re: plans for landscaping Village Green)
  • Box 86 SCH-SCO (includes Service Department memos re: requesting transportation for Jens Jensen and Marshall Johnson)
  • Box 91 JA-JU (includes Marshall Johnson; Jens Jensen re: photographs of war figures from Century of Progress)
  • Box 143 JA-JE (includes Jens Jensen, re: purchase of new Ford car)
  • Box 183 Telegrams, 1928 (includes Jens Jensen)
  • Box 299 J (includes Jens Jensen)
  • Box 311 Edison Institute construction records; Jens Jensen
     
• Acc. 284 Henry Ford Office Papers
  • Box 17 Jens Jensen
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• Acc. 285 Henry Ford Office Papers
  • Box 13 Jensen, Jens
  • Box 68 Jens Jensen (landscaping)
  • Box 1920 JEN - JEQ includes Jens Jensen (Landscape)
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• EI.369 (OS) Jens Jensen Landscape Architectural Drawings
   
• Acc. 00.1334.67 (OS) Sketch, Parking Space, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, December 1931
   
• Acc. 64.167.44.1 (OS) Drawing, Preliminary Sketch for the Tractor Plant of Henry Ford & Son Inc., Hamilton, Ohio, June 1920
   
• Acc. 59.13.1 and 59.13.2 (OS Presentation Drawing, "Proposed Arrangement of Cottages - Additions to the Dearborn Inn," January 1936
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• Acc. 1390 Edsel Ford in Memoriam Subseries
  • Box 1 A – J, 1943 (includes letter from Jens Jensen)
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• Acc. 1660 Photographic Vertical File
  • Box 93-96 Fair Lane; Gardens and Gardening, Grounds
  • Box 80 Gaukler Point; Grounds
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• Acc. 833 General Photographs Series
  • Box 16 Henry Ford Hospital (2 folders, 28a and 28b)
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• EI.1929 Edison Institute Photographs
  • box 1
    • Aerial Views and Panoramas, ca 1920s
    • Aerial Views and Panoramas, ca 1930s

Ford News

• Ford Rotunda Rises At Dearborn, 15:8:149+:1-2
• Here and There (Retired mail carrier purchases V-8), 13:4:65:1

Audio-Visual (materials may be restricted due to format, please contact reference staff in advance for access)

• A Force of Nature the Life and Work of Jens Jensen. Williams, Jim; Fries, Louanne; Weaver, Dave; Chicago (Ill.). Department of Cultural Affairs
  • 712.092 J54 F697 2001 (VHS)

Oral Histories

• 64.167.65.55 A.J. Lepine
• 64.167.65.115 E.G. Liebold (pt.1)
• 64.167.65.115 E.G. Liebold (pt.2)

Vertical File

• Jensen, Jens

Books

• Siftings. Jensen, Jens
  • 712 J54 1939 (Rare)
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• A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era. Karson, R.S.
  • 712.0973092 J54, G831, 1992
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• Skylands: A Jens Jensen Landscape in Maine, an Interpretive History: Independent Project. Brown, Jane Roy
  • 712.3 B878 2001
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• Jens Jensen: Landscape Architect for the Fords...and You. Werling, Donn Paul; Meader, Rick
  • 712.092 J54 W489 2018