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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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Yosei Amemya photographs, 1926-1930

1 print box
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A collection of 44 original photographs by Yosei Amemya, New York. The subjects include private gardens, office buildings and houses (interior and exterior views) and a few bridges. The majority are printed in a grainy, soft focuse technique and signed in pencil by the photographer. Also included are 3 halftone prints of bridges after photos by Amemya.

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York & Sawyer architectural drawings, 1921-1931

340 Sheets
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Architectural drawings for 14 projects designed by the firm, dating from circa 1911 to 1960.

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Woodlawn Cemetery records, 1863-1999

300 linear feet
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The Woodlawn Cemetery archive documents the history of the grounds, mausolea, monuments, and operations of Woodlawn Cemetery, founded in 1863 in The Bronx, New York, and one of the largest in the United States. The collection includes architectural designs records, maps, photographs, correspondence, construction and maintenance records, and other historical documents, spanning 140 years of the cemetery's operations.
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Wilson Eyre architectural drawings and papers, 1877-1945

159 drawings
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Wilson Eyre, Jr. (1858-1944) was an American architect, teacher and writer who practiced in Philadelphia. He is known for his country houses and for being an innovator in the Shingle Style.
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William S. Brown manuscript on Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1979-1983

0.20 Linear Feet
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An unpublished manuscript by William S. Brown titled "SOM: The Formative Years." The manuscript, a 400-page typescript with holograph annotations throughout, was written between 1979-1983. The manuscript is incomplete, missing various pages sections.

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William Robert Ware papers and photographs, 1834-1920

3 manuscript boxes
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This collection includes a very small number of personal papers from Ware; photographs of students, faculty, and school buildings, 1880s-1920s; memorials and testimonials to Ware; and miscellaneous clippings (including clippings of articles about Marcia Mead, first woman graduate of the School of Architecture), invitations (including two invitations to the first commencement of the University of the City of New York, 1834), greeting cards and announcements.

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William Muschenheim architectural drawings and papers, 1929-1957, bulk 1931-1950

20 manuscript boxes
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The William Muschenheim collection spans from 1929 to 1957, with bulk dates from 1931-1950. The collection documents approximately 130 separate jobs and is made up of architectural drawings, correspondence, accounts, estimates, specifications, invoices, contracts, samples, invoices, and other material related to Muschenheim's professional projects. The projects mainly represent Muschenheim's work in New York City, but also include work in Albany (NY), Amenia (NY), Bridgehampton (NY), Chappaqua (NY), Hampton Bays (NY), Malverne (NY), Massapequa (NY), Nassau Point (Long Island), Washington (CT), Washington DC, Westhampton Beach (NY), and Woodstock (NY), among other locations.

William M. Gribben architectural drawings, 1880-1900

45 drawings
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Watercolor drawings of interior walls and ceiling designs, late nineteenth-century, probably American.

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