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Album contains photostats of original drawings sent to Washington, D.C. for the War Department and Navy Buildings. The architects for the project include Corbett, Harrison & MacMurrary; Holabird & Root; and James C. Mackenzie.

276 photographs of Lapidus' work.

The collection documents Mosher Steel Company of Houston's participation in the construction of New York's Twin Towers. Including are 10 drawings of core columns, erector's derricks and box girders; over 40 letters and memos between Mosher and the New York Port Authority ; 2 photographs of completed steel columns ; maps and other ephemera.

Collection consists chiefly of drawings and photographs. It contains over 755 drawings of private residences and other projects, such as an addition to Gracie Mansion (New York, N.Y.) and alterations to Columbia University's School of Journalism. Also included are 266 project photographs.

Includes the following four items: [1] Favrao, William. [History of Architecture course outline]. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic. 90pp. ; [2] History of Medieval Architecture: Outline of Lectures. New York: Department of Architecture, College of Fine Arts, New York University, 1932-1933. 57 pp. ; [3] Bannister, Turpin C. Modern Architecture: a syllabus of buildings illustrating the development of architecture since the late eighteenth century / prepared for the course Architecture 216 in the Dept. of Architecture, University of Illinois, 1954. 30 pp. ; [4] Bannister, Turpin C. Syllabus for Architecture 214: History of Medieval Architecture in Europe and Near East, 1952. 78pp.

The collection includes 1134 images (photographs and postcards, with some duplicates) of approximately 60 buildings, including some earlier photographs, plans, and renderings that Morris copied to add context to her own contemporary photographs. Of properties with identified architects, the great majority were designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, with a few examples of the work of Richard Upjohn, James Renwick, and several other lesser-known architects. Major sites depicted include Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, N.Y.; Fonthill Castle, Bronx, N.Y.; Lovat, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.; Hurst-Pierrepont, Garrison, N.Y.; Belvoir, Yonkers, N.Y.; Beechwood, Yonkers, N.Y.; Mount Ida, Troy, N.Y., Llewellyn Park, Orange, N.J.; and Malbone, Newport, R.I. Some 18th-century buildings, and one 17th-century building (the Christopher Billop House, near Tottenville, Staten Island, built circa 1699), are also depicted.

Five drawings show proposed alterations to the house, and three drawings show cottages on the grounds, circa 1801-1804. Two plans of the grounds, 1820, one with proposed alterations, are also included.

Mayer's news bulletins, with some related correspondence, 1946-1954, some undated, contain descriptions of his work on city planning, rural development, architectural, and engineering projects in India, particularly the rural development projects at Etawah and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh. Also, Mayer's impressions of India, his colleagues, Jawaharal Nehru and other Indian government officials, Indian-American relations, and personal matters.

Files of the company, 1911-1920, much of which consists of unsucessful architectural bid documents, each noting the architect, building, and location, as well as estimated costs, sketches, and related correspondents. These bid documents represent commissions not awarded to NYATCC, and do, in some cases, indicate the outcome of the bid. Architects represented include McKim, Mead & White; Cass Gilbert; George Post; D.H. Burnham & Company; Warren & Wetmore, Schwartz & Gross, and many others. Also includes correspondence and office memoranda, including some describing the formative years, 1911-1914, of the National Terra Cotta Society, trade catalogs, and job photographs. Also, two albums containing photographs of sample pieces of terra cotta, and month by month construction records for three buildings, including the American Theater (42nd Street, New York, 1892) by Charles Coolidge Haight; the Renaissance Apartments (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1889) and the Imperial Apartments (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1890) both by Montrose Morris.