Theodora Kimball Hubbard

[2] Hubbard worked briefly as an editorial writer for The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, where she compiled a subject index to its first sixty volumes.

In addition to cataloguing, Hubbard was involved in research for James Sturgis Pray, Chairman of the Landscape Architecture Department at Harvard University.

Kimball also pioneered organizational and housing systems for visual and graphic media such as lantern slides, photographs, plans, maps, and postcards.

[6] She was assisted in this endeavor by her husband Henry Vincent Hubbard (1875–1945), a Harvard professor, and the founding editor of Landscape Architecture Magazine.

The authors thought that this placement most precisely acknowledged the artistic component of landscape architecture, whereas placing it in subclass (S), as it is today, would suggest that it is simply another form of agriculture.

She is credited with writing over 100 editorials, articles, and reviews in addition to preparing detailed bibliographies and reports on the fields of landscape and city planning.

In addition to published books, Hubbard contributed to such journals as Landscape Architecture (beginning in 1912), House Beautiful, and The Garden Magazine.

She also chaired the Committee on Libraries and Collections, given her influence on educational programs through her widely published and regularly updated bibliographies of landscape architecture and city planning publications.

The bibliographies she published (often called check-lists and ready reference lists) were used by other universities as a basis for library acquisitions, thus forming part of the foundation upon which other educational programs were built.

[9] In a Landscape Architecture obituary, the Boston Chapter of the ASLA lauded her for service to the profession but declined to cite specifics, noting that there was “In these few pages no place for a detailed account .

Originally published in the Spanish language periodical, Revista Municipal y de Intereses Economicos in 1921. Her portrait in this article is captioned: "Bibliotecaria de la Universidad de Harvard. Notable escritora de asuntos municipales," [ 1 ] which translates as Librarian at Harvard University, and noted writer on the subject of city planning.