Louis Checkman negatives photographs and papers, 1955-1992

Creator:: Checkman, Louis, 1914-2004 and Checkman, Louis, 1914-2004
Extent:: 6,604 negatives, 2,482 photographic prints, and 600 slides approximately
Language:: English .
Scope and content:: The collection primarily consists of negatives, transparencies, prints of architectural models arranged chronological by project number.
Biographical / historical:: Architectural model photographer. Clients included, among others, Philip Johnson, Edward Durell Stone, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill.

Acquisition information:: Source of acquisition--Wayne Checkman. Method of acquisition--Donated;; Date of acquisition--2015. Accession number--2015.010.
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Other finding aids:: Collection inventory is available as a PDF file.

Access and use

Restrictions:: This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Location of this collection:: Avery Drawings & Archives

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