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      <corpname>Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library</corpname>
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    <unittitle>Lessing Whitford Williams architectural drawings and papers</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname>Williams, Lessing Whitford, 1894-1989</persname>
    </origination>
    <unitid>16068729</unitid>
    <langmaterial>
      <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language>
.    </langmaterial>
    <physdesc altrender="part">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">3 manuscript boxes</extent>
    </physdesc>
    <physdesc altrender="part">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 print box</extent>
    </physdesc>
    <physdesc altrender="part">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">30  rolls</extent>
    </physdesc>
    <physdesc altrender="part">
      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">4 oversize folders</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">flat-file</extent>
    </physdesc>
    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1915/1965" type="inclusive">ca. 1915-1965</unitdate>
  </did>
  <accessrestrict id="aspace_d929490a64c422088f4ebad1c8216c30">
    <head>Conditions Governing Access</head>
<p>This collection is unprocessed. For more information, please email the department at avery-drawings@columbia.edu</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Scope and Contents</head>
<p>Small collection of papers and approximately 300 drawings.</p>  </scopecontent>
  <bioghist id="aspace_c561b301e074a93c827ccfd04a4154f2">
    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>American architect.</p>  </bioghist>
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    <head>Other Finding Aids</head>
<p>Collection inventory is available as <extref xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/libraries/inside/avery_assets/LessingWilliams_paper_inventory.pdf">a PDF file.</extref></p>  </otherfindaid>
  <controlaccess>
    <subject source="lcsh">Architecture -- Design and Plans -- United States.</subject>
  </controlaccess>
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