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Avery Drawings & Archives

Avery Drawings & Archives

300 Avery Hall
1172 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027, USA
avery@library.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.
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Francis Henry Lenygon and Jeannette Becker Lenygon architectural records and papers, 1910-1967 27 Linear Feet

Art objects -- Collectors and collecting
Furniture -- Collectors and collecting
Lenygon, Francis Henry, 1877-1943

This collection includes architectural drawings, holograph and typescript papers, business and financial records, black and white photographs, lantern slides, diaries, scrapbooks, and printed papers relating to the professional work and interests of Francis Henry Lenygon and Jeannette Becker Lenygon.

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Jeanne Kleinfield Welcher collection of the Avery Family, 1853-2002, bulk 1867-1989 5 manuscript boxes

Art -- Collectors and collecting
Welcher, Jeanne Kleinfield
Collected by Jeanne Kleinfield Welcher (1923-2010), great granddaughter of Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (1822-1905), this collection contains materials pertaining to the philanthropic efforts of the Avery Family during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. The collection contains institutional documents, professional and personal correspondence, newspaper clippings, visual and research material, and personal affects pertaining to three generations of the Avery Family.
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