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Creator: Urban, Joseph, 1872-1933
Abstract Or Scope: Collection contains watercolor renderings, sketches, technical drawings (ground plans, elevations and details), photographs, glass plate and acetate negatives, scrapbooks, set models and some related papers covering Urban's career in Vienna and New York as an architect, set designer, decorator and illustrator. There is a thorough representation of his New York career including his set designs for Florenz Ziegfeld (1915-1932) and the Metropolitan Opera (1917-1933). The collection also contains information on Urban's work for William Randolph Hearst as art director for Cosmopolitan Studios, his exhibitions including his 1921 Wiener Werkstätte store, and his many architectural projects. Biographical information and research gathered by Richard Cole and Randolph Carter including contributions from his daughter,Gretl Urban, and biographical notes and some letters from his widow, Mary Urban, are also present.

Creator: Nelson, Paul, 1895-1979
Abstract Or Scope: Paul Nelson was an American architect educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and practicing in France and the United States. This collection contains materials related to Nelson's personal, professional, and academic lives, the bulk originating during his residency in the France, beginning in the 1920s.

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