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William L. Bottomley architectural drawings, 1913-1946 384 drawings

1913 to 1946. The majority of projects were located in New York City; other locations include the
Arts Library, Columbia University, 1172 Amsterdam Ave., MC 0301, New York, NY 10027.
New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951

This collection contains original drawings for thirty-nine architectural commissions, dated from 1913 to 1946. The majority of projects were located in New York City; other locations include the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. Projects with the greatest number of extant drawings include River House in New York City (1930-1931); the Ernest P. Davies residence in Roslyn, New York (1916); the William Goadby Loew residence in Old Westbury, New York (1931-1932); and the Robert Goelet residence in Georgetown, South Carolina (1935). Drawings are primarily done in graphite on tracing paper, with some in ink on drafting linen.

  1. Avery Drawings & Archives Collections

Bill Weinberg sound recordings, 1992-2021, bulk 1992-2011 57 audiocassettes

WBAI Radio (New York, N.Y.)
New York (State) -- Politics and goverment -- 1951-
Radicalism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Weinberg, Bill
Bill Weinberg is a journalist, political writer, activist, and radio personality. His work and activism has focused on human rights, indigenous movements, drug policy, the environment, the Middle East, and opposition to war and authoritarianism. The Bill Weinberg sound recordings feature 57 episodes of the show Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade (MORC), which was broadcast on WBAI radio from 1988 to 2011. The collection's recordings date from Bill Weinberg's period as part of the show's collective from 1992 to 2011. Throughout its run, MORC covered a wide range of political, cultural, and spiritual topics. Some major themes addressed in the collection's episodes include ecology, indigenous movements, anarchism, the War on Drugs, United States imperialism, Latin America, North Africa, religion, New York City political and social movements, sustainable transportation, and gardening. The collection also contains an oral history interview with Weinberg that was taken by the curator when the collection was donated to the Oral History Archives at Columbia.
  1. Oral History Archives at Columbia

American Poets' Corner Archive, 1984-1996 1.68 Linear Feet

Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.)
American poetry -- New York (State) -- New York
New York City and modeled after a similar alcove for writers at Westminster Abbey in London. Located
Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.)
Poets Corner is an ongoing cultural tradition important to the Morningside neighborhood as well as the commemoration of a range of American writers, not limited to NYC, but brought together under the aegis of a national cultural canon.
  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Abraham W. Geller architectural records and papers, 1915-1999, bulk 1940-1990s 4850 photographs

American Institute of Architects in 1972, and in 1985 he was awarded the Medal of Honor from the New York
Aaron Davis Hall at City College (Manhattan); many commissions for the Health Insurance Plan of New York
Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Geller, Abraham W

This large collection documents in great detail the architectural projects of Abraham Geller and his colleagues throughout the United States and abroad, spanning the 1940s through the 1990s. Types of projects represented include retirement homes, recreational facilities, medical centers, private residences and prototype dwellings for large residential developments, urban renewal projects, and offices.

  1. Avery Drawings & Archives Collections

Office Building for Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation : proposal / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1956 1 item

, the Union Carbide is one of SOM's most historically significant buildings in New York.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill photographs, Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and
Gordon Bunshaft architectural drawings and papers, Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

A 1956 proposal drafted by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for the Union Carbide Building, a historically significant, mid-twentieth century office tower located at 270 Park Avenue, just north of Grand Central Station. The proposal consists of reproductions of plan and elevation drawings and photographs of the Union Carbide model, together with outline specifications, cost estimates, and construction and drawing schedules.

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Robert Lax papers, 1938-1990 17 linear feet

Antonucci of the Journeyman Press in New York for publication. Also, printed photographs and unprinted
Journeyman Press (New York, N.Y.)
Literature publishing -- New York (State) -- New York
Lax, Robert

Correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and printed material of Lax. Included are letters of Mark and Dorothy Van Doren and Thomas Merton. The bulk of the collection is comprised of Lax's poetry and journal manuscripts, many written in Patmos and Kalymnos, Greece, and originally sent to Emil Antonucci of the Journeyman Press in New York for publication. Also, printed photographs and unprinted negatives of pictures taken by Lax, primarily in Greece.

  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Henry Hope Reed papers, 1911-1998 28 document boxes

This collection is made up of six series: Professional Papers, New York Walking Tours, The Parks of
running walking tours for the Municipal Art Society of New York, and would go on to direct these for the
Museum of the City of New York from 1960. These walks highlighted the city's "finest examples of American
Reed, Henry Hope
Henry Hope Reed (1915-2013) was an American author, architecture critic and advocate of classical architecture. Along with writing and giving New York City walking tours, Reed served curator of Central Park and co-founder of Classical America. This collection contains his writings, correspondence, photographs and extensive research files on classical architecture and the people, parks, buildings, streets and history of New York City.
  1. Avery Drawings & Archives Collections

Alexander McMillan Welch architectural drawings and papers, 1886-1937 1,838 architectural drawings

Schools of architecture -- New York (State) -- New York
Wurts Brothers (Photographers : New York, N.Y.)
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Welch, Alexander McMillan, 1869-1943
Alexander McMillan Welch (1869-1943) was a New York City based architect who practiced independently and as a member of Welch, Smith & Provot. His firm was best known for designing New York City townhouses in the Beaux-Arts style. The collection includes 1,641 architectural drawings, 196 student drawings, 14 student notebooks, 99 loose photographs and 3 photo albums of project photography, project specifications and files, and some professional ephemera.
  1. Avery Drawings & Archives Collections

Marion Sanger Frank and A. A. Brill Papers, 1844-1960, bulk 1913-1945 .48 linear feet

at the age of 29. After working as an assistant physician in Long Island, New York for four years
When Brill returned to New York in 1908, he began the first private practice of psychoanalysis in
1931, of the New York Psychoanalytic Institution, which was devoted to training physicians in the
Frank, Marion Sanger
This collection contains correspondence and related materials from A. A. Brill and Marion Sanger Frank.
  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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