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Avery Library Vertical File, 1910s-1970s 16 linear feet 16 linear feet

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The materials that comprise the Vertical File have been collected and added to from a variety of sources by former Avery Librarians. The vertical file contains clippings, pamphlets, reprints, and other miscellaneous materials relating to persons, places, organizations, and topical subjects relating to architecture, housing, and city planning. The purpose of the vertical file was to arrange and store small items, memorabilia, and ephemeral material on a variety of topics to facilitate access by researchers. For the most part, the vertical file contains printed items only. Manuscript material and other unique items were, generally, not placed in the vertical file. In some cases, manuscript material has been removed from the Vertical File and placed in its corresponding collection.

  1. Avery Drawings & Archives

Buildings and Grounds, 1891-2016 257 Linear Feet 37 full size document boxes, 6 half size boxes, 18 oversize boxes, 2 shallow lid boxes; 5 document drawers, 2 oversize folders 10 Gigabytes

Barnard College. Buildings and Grounds
This collection consists of correspondence, accounts, reports, floor plans, blueprints, photographs, court papers, and memoranda relating to the construction and furnishing of campus buildings and landscaped areas.
  1. Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Edith Elmer Wood papers, 1900-1943 72 manuscript boxes

Wood, Edith Elmer, 1871-1945
Edith Elmer Wood (1871-1945) was a US housing reformer. As lobbyist, writer, and government consultant, she helped define New Deal housing policy. After graduating from Smith College in 1890, she wrote fiction and undertook settlement house work before launching her influential, life-long career in housing reforms. The bulk of the collection is letters but other kinds of material is included, such as drawings, blueprints, manuscripts, maps, photographs, pamphlets, news clippings and hotel receipts.
  1. Avery Drawings & Archives

Frederick Fried Coney Island collection, 1847-2001 32.62 linear feet 15 document boxes 7 flat boxes 36 oversized folders 7 tubes

Fried, Frederick
The collection consists of materials used by Frederick Fried in his research and writing about folk art and material culture, especially related to Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. A significant portion of the collection consists of the personal archive of William F. Mangels, which was purchased by Fried in 1955. Mangels was a designer and manufacturer of amusement rides and founder of the American Museum of Public Recreation at Coney Island. Subjects include amusement parks, amusement rides, architecture, bathing pavilions, beaches, beauty contests, carousels, carousel animals, Brooklyn, coin-operated machines, Coney Island, exhibitions, games of chance and skill, hotels, mechanical rides, mechanization, parades, pleasure railways, recreation, roller coasters, sideshows, transportation, and other subjects related to American material culture and popular amusement.
  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Harvey Wiley Corbett architectural drawings and papers, 1914-1949 1786 items

Corbett, Harvey Wiley, 1873-1954
Harvey Wiley Corbett (1873-1954) was an American architect primarily active in New York City but also completed projects across the United States and in London. While known for his work on early skyscraper architecture, his work also includes banks, churches, educational campuses, government buildings, housing projects, and large memorial projects like the George Washington Masonic National Memorial (Alexandria, VA). His most well-known projects include Rockefeller Center (Corbett served as a senior architect on the project), the Criminal Courts Building (Centre Street, NY), and Bush Tower (East 42nd Street, NY). Alongside his prolific career, Corbett was also engaged in the theoretical elements of the evolving American city. This can been seen through his commissioning of Hugh Ferriss for the creation of the set of drawings now known as the "Metropolis of Tomorrow," which questioned the results of the contemporary zoning laws of New York City. This collection reflects the breadth of Corbett's work and interests and while it primarily consists of photographs of his many projects, the collection also encompasses a small portion of professional papers and reference material. Beyond the bulk of photographs, there are drawings, correspondence, notes, clippings, postcards, daily calendar entries, a portfolio, photo albums, publications, and financial and legal records.
  1. Avery Drawings & Archives

Illarion Sergeevich Lanskoi Papers, 9999 0.1 linear feet 1 folder

Lanskoi, Illarion Sergeevich

One typed manuscript on the architect R. N. Verkhovskoi; a pamphlet on Verkhovskoi; clippings from Russkaia Zhizn' newspaper with articles on the Comintern and on Soviet espionage.

  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library

John O. Vegezzi architectural drawings, 1920-1950 2 rolls of drawings

Vegezzi, John O., -1979

Architectural drawings for projects designed by Vegezzi, and drawings made by Vegezzi while he worked as a draftsman in the offices of Kenneth Franzheim and Allan B. Mills, Associate Arch.; Holabird and Root and Burgee; Benjamin Wistar Morris III; Rosenthal, Dessesls and Jones; Trylon Studios; and particularly McKim, Mead & White (81 drawings, 1923-1942).

  1. Avery Drawings & Archives

Joseph Urban papers, 1893-1998 135 linear feet ca. 11,530 items in 42 boxes; 86 flat boxes; 147 board-portfolios; 12 map case drawers; 45 boxes of glass plates and acetate negatives; 328 set models

Urban, Joseph, 1872-1933

Collection contains watercolor renderings, sketches, technical drawings (ground plans, elevations and details), photographs, glass plate and acetate negatives, scrapbooks, set models and some related papers covering Urban's career in Vienna and New York as an architect, set designer, decorator and illustrator. There is a thorough representation of his New York career including his set designs for Florenz Ziegfeld (1915-1932) and the Metropolitan Opera (1917-1933). The collection also contains information on Urban's work for William Randolph Hearst as art director for Cosmopolitan Studios, his exhibitions including his 1921 Wiener Werkstätte store, and his many architectural projects. Biographical information and research gathered by Richard Cole and Randolph Carter including contributions from his daughter,Gretl Urban, and biographical notes and some letters from his widow, Mary Urban, are also present.

  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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