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Projects represented in the collection include Arcadia University Commons (Glenside, PA) ; Arcadia University Landman Library (Glenside, PA) ; Brooklyn College Master Plan (Brooklyn, NY) ; Case Western Reserve University Adelbert Hall (Cleveland, OH) ; College of Wooster Ebert Art Center (Wooster, OH) ; Columbia University Computer Science Building (New York, NY) ; Columbia University Hamilton Hall (New York, NY) ; Columbia University Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Master Plan (Palisades, NY) ; Dan M. Russell, Jr., U.S. Courthouse (Gulfport, MS) ; Dartmouth College Roth Center for Jewish Life (Hanover, NH) ; Epstein Studio ; Franklin & Marshall College Roschel Performing Arts Center (Lancaster, PA) ; Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library Visitor & Education Center (Hyde Park, NY) ; Wender, Murase, and White Law Office (New York, NY) ; Long Island Rail Road Entrance at Penn Station (New York, NY) ; New York City PS 54 (New York, NY) ; New York University Languages & Literature Building (New York, NY) ; Princeton University Computer Science Building (Princeton, NJ) ; residential projects ; Smith College Master Plan (Northampton, MA) ; SUNY at Albany Arts & Science Building (Albany, NY) ; U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (Brooklyn, NY) ; University of Kentucky Main Building (Lexington, KY) ; University of Virginia Life Sciences Building (Charlottesville, VA) ; Woodstock Artists Association (Woodstock, NY) ; Woodstock Master Plan and Sidewalk District Plan (Woodstock, NY) ; Yale University Sterling Divinity Quadrangle (New Haven, NY) ; Young Women's Christian Association (Kingston, NY).

This collection primarily contains 177 groups of English, Continental and American drafting sets and individual instruments dating from circa 1700 to 2004. These instruments were used to create technical drawings, typically by architects, draftsmen, engineers, surveyors, and students. Complementing the instruments are a small group of miscellaneous items, including medals, a model, a necktie, and a charm bracelet, and a large group of published materials, including trade catalogs and other technical, biographical, historical, and scholarly writings about drafting and scientific instruments and related subjects.

More than 120 architects from the United States and abroad contributed original drawings to this collection. Most are hand-drawn; some are printed through traditional etching or lithography techniques; a few others are computer-generated prints. Images are primarily related to the architects' projects, although some drawings are travel sketches of other structures. Drawings in this archive were exhibited at the Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and the Arthur Ross Gallery at Columbia University, Apr. 3-May 4, 1991. At least one drawing from each contributor was published in the accompanying exhibition catalog, CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS (San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1991).