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1900
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
This collection contains 247 photographs from William F. Lamb's reference files. The photographs were originally arranged into 4 albums entitled "A: Interiors, Ceilings, and Vaults" "B: Miscellaneous" "C: Details" and "D: Details and Wood." The images primarily detail Italian architecture in Rome, Florence, Siena, Venice and Vatican City.
William F. Lamb reference photographs. Located in the Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library.
Avery Drawings & Archives maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator or their heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron. Contact avery-drawings@columbia.edu for more information.
Accession number--1000.086.
William F. Lamb was an architect in the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and served as the principle designer of the Empire State Building. He studied architecture at Columbia University's School of Architecture and at the EĢcole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.