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Avery Drawings & Archives

Avery Drawings & Archives

300 Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027, USA
avery-drawings@columbia.edu
Avery Library’s Drawings & Archives department collects drawings, photographs, and architectural records documenting architecture and design practices. Our collections focus largely on American and New York City architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Start Over Repository Avery Drawings & Archives Creator Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 Subjects Holograph papers

Emery Roth & Sons architectural records and papers, 1906-1996, bulk 1951-1994 34175 drawings (34,175 drawings) 201 document boxes (245 linear feet papers) 4 print boxes

Emery Roth & Sons

This collection primarily contains architectural drawings, correspondence, business records, and a small number of photographs related to the projects of Emery Roth & Sons and its subsidiary entities. A large portion of the entities are represented only in the Office Records series and are identified as such. Some projects on which Emery Roth & Sons acted as architect of record are not represented in this collection, most notably the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

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Serge Chermayeff architectural records and papers, 1909-1980 17 linear feet of papers 1508 photographs (1508 photographs) 915 drawings

Chermayeff, Serge, 1900-1996

This collection contains materials related to Chermayeff's personal, professional, and academic lives, the bulk originating during his residency in the United States, beginning in the late 1930s. Project records document the full range of his work, including many records from his British period. The collection also contains extensive correspondence with personal friends, clients, and professional and academic colleagues.

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