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Series II: Accounting Records
Series III: Professional Papers
Series IV: Personal Papers
Series V: Reference
Series VI: Architectural Drawings
Series VI: Object

Theodore Conrad papers, 1937-1991

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Series I: Projects

Subseries 1: By Architect

A


Box 09 Folder 13 Penchansky Brothers [Adam Black & Sons], 1964

5 photographs

B


Box 09 Folder 14 Sapphire Hill Village Condominium (St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands) [Belfatto and Pavarini], undated

Contains information sheet, 1 color aerial print, 15 color prints of development


Box 09 Folder 15 Gracie Towers (New York, NY) [Sylvan Bien and Robert Bien], undated

2 reproductions of rooftop renderings


Box 09 Folder 16 De Bijenkorf (Rotterdam, Netherlands) [Marcel Breuer], ca. 1957

3 photographic prints

C


Box 09 Folder 17 Colonial Revival House (Pratt Project) [Theodore Conrad], undated

7 photographs (Conrad's first model)


Box 09 Folder 18 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, North Building (New York, NY) [Harvey Wiley Corbett], ca. 1920s

15 photographs (primarily of the model), 1 exhibition plaque


Oversize 02 Folder 01 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, North Building (New York, NY) [Harvey Wiley Corbett], ca. 1920s

2 photographs


Box 09 Folder 19 Villa Savoye (Poissy, France) [Le Corbusier], 1970

Client Museum of Modern Art ; 9 photographs (including model in construction) and 1 newspaper clipping

D


Box 09 Folder 20 U.C.P. Rehabilitation Campus [Davis & Sands Architects], undated

6 presentation drawings


Box 09 Folder 21 Southern California Edison, power-transmission poles [Henry Dreyfuss Associates], 1970

3 photographs

F


Box 09 Folder 22 A Small House Competition, N.Y. Chapter A.I.A. [J. Andre Fouilhoux, Archt.], undated

1 photograph

G


Box 09 Folder 23 Newark Midtown Project (Newark, NJ) [Newark Urban Renewal Agency ; Architect Louis Gardner], undated

3 photographs


Box 09 Folder 24 Southside Project No. 1: Mount Vernon Urban Renewal Agency (Mount Vernon, New York) [Louis Gardner], undated

1 photograph

H


Box 09 Folder 25 Cummins Engine Company Medical Center [Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates], 1970

Includes correspondences, billing, lists, product spec sheets, drawings


Box 09 Folder 26 National Bank of South Dakota (Sioux Falls, SD) [Harold Spitznagel and Associates], undated

1 copy of rendering


Box 09 Folder 27 Rockefeller Apartments (New York, NY) [Harrison & Fouilhoux], ca. 1930s

17 photographs; includes photographs of model for Rockefeller Center.


Box 09 Folder 28 The National Air and Space Museum (Washington, D.C.) [Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, Inc. / Mills, Petticord and Mills], undated

7 photographs; Smithsonian press brochure regarding the building design


Box 09 Folder 29 Hamilton Plaza [Stanley L. Horowitz], 1972

4 photographs


Box 09 Folder 30 Berkshire Commons, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA) [Hugh Stubbins and Associates, Inc.], 1966

5 photographs

J


Box 09 Folder 31 to 32 Monticello (Charlottesville, VA) [Thomas Jefferson], 1976

Includes clippings, brochures, window patterns for model, and photocopied articles for model created for "The Eye of Thomas Jefferson" Exhibition at the National Gallery of Art. 1976


Box 09 Folder 33 Museum of Modern Art, New Wing and Garden (New York, NY) [Philip Johnson], 1962

3 photographs

K


Box 09 Folder 34 Housing Development [Kahn & Jacobs ; William G. Distin], undated

1 photographs


Box 09 Folder 35 Van Dyke Houses (New York, NY) [Kelly & Gruzen], undated

3 photographs


Box 09 Folder 36 Bird House, Bronx Zoo [Morris Ketchum, Jr. and Associates], 1973

Clippings


Box 09 Folder 37 Nassau County Health Administration Building [Morris Ketchum Jr. & Associates / The Office of Max O. Urbahn], undated

Includes photo prints of presentation drawings, copy of site plan with pencil markings

L


Box 09 Folder 38 The Pittsburgh House of Glass (New York World's Fair 1939) [Landefeld & Hatch], 1939

1 photograph, 1 brochure, and Pencil Point tear sheet

M


Box 09 Folder 39 Union College [McKim, Mead, and White], undated

7 photographs


Box 09 Folder 40 Barbizon Hotel (New York, NY) [Murgatroyed & Ogden], undated

Sectional model : 5 photographic prints

R


Box 09 Folder 41 Behr Manning Corporation [Kenneth H. Ripnen], undated

1 photograph, 3 negative photo stats (plot plan, section, elevation)


Box 09 Folder 42 Boulevard East & Broadway Urban Renewal Project (West New York, NJ) [Richard Rivardo], 1967

2 photographic prints


Box 09 Folder 43 Casa Arnstein (San Paulo, Brazil) [Bernard Rudofsky], [1964?]

4 photographic prints; "Photographed for The Museum of Modern Art by Soichi Sunami"

S


Box 09 Folder 44 Pittsburg Center for the Arts (Pittsburg, PA) [Shrader Studios, Inc.], 1964

2 photographs


Box 10 Folder 1 Air Force Academy Chapel (for Architectural Forum) [Skidmore, Ownings and Merrill], 1957

11 photographs; tear sheets from Architectural, SOM newsletter


Box 10 Folder 2 Bank Lambert (Brussels, Belgium) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], ca. 1965

9 photographs


Box 10 Folder 3 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (New Haven, CT) [Skidmore, Ownings and Merrill], undated

2 photographs


Box 10 Folder 4 Canadian Industries Limited Building (Telus Tower) (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 5 The Chase Manhattan Bank (New York, NY) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1961

10 photographs, booklets, reprints, schematic plans, site plan, exhibition plaque


Box 10 Folder 6 Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (Bloomfield, CT) [?] [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], undated

8 photographs


Box 10 Folder 7 Dallas Main Place [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], undated

2 photographs of downtown Dallas aerial model [not confirmed as related to Dallas Main Place building]; elevation templates and one floor plan template for model


Box 10 Folder 8 Deering Milliken, Inc. (Spartanburg, SC) [Skidmore, Owings & Merrill], 1963-1965

Includes sketches, scale drawings and aerial photographs


Box 10 Folder 9 Equitable Building (Chicago, IL) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], undated

4 photographs (including the model on display in Saks Fifth Avenue store window); Equinews, Nov. 1958 featuring the model; Typescript of article by John Farley for Modern Pattern-Making2 X Equitable Agency Time


Box 10 Folder 10 Factory[?] [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1959

3 photographs


Box 10 Folder 11 Ford Motor Company Administrative Center (Dearborn, MI) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 12 Fort Dearborn Redevelopment Project (Chicago, IL) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill] [?], undated

5 photographs


Box 10 Folder 13 Heinz Lab Building (Pittsburgh, PA) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1955

1 photograph and reprint from Architectural Forum (May 1949)


Box 10 Folder 14 John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (Kansas City, KS) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1959

2 photographs


Box 10 Folder 15 John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (New Orleans, LA) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1959

3 photographs


Box 10 Folder 16 Lake Meadows Housing (Chicago, IL) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1956

9 photographs


Box 10 Folder 17 Manufacturers Trust Company (New York, NY) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 18 Metro Glass Company, J.C., Camden Plan [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1958

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 19 Noxzema Chemical Company (Cockeysville, Maryland) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1960

5 photographs


Box 10 Folder 20 Pennsylvania Avenue Master Plan (Washington, D.C.) [National Capitol Planning Committee / Skidmore, Ownings and Merrill], 1963

12 photographs; copies of New York Magazine article "A Grand Boulevard for Washington"


Box 10 Folder 21 Pepsi-Cola Company, World Headquarters (New York, NY) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1957

2 photographs


Oversize 02 Folder 02 Puerto Rico Government Ministries Complex [Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill], 1955

5 photographs


Box 10 Folder 23 Union Carbide & Carbon Building (New York, NY) [Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1956

9 photographs


Box 10 Folder 24 United Air Lines [Skidmore Owings & Merrill], 1957

4 photographs


Box 10 Folder 25 Warren Petroleum Oil Company (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill], 1955

4 photographs


Box 10 Folder 26 2 Columbus Circle (New York, NY) [Edward Durell Stone], ca. 1964

1 copy of rendering


Box 10 Folder 27 Busch Stadium (St. Louis, MO) [Edward Durell Stone], 1963-1964

7 photographs


Box 10 Folder 28 The Football Hall of Fame, Rutgers University [Edward Durell Stone, Architect], undated

Main floor plan architectural reproduction


Box 10 Folder 29 Liebman House (Museum of Modern Art/Colliers) [Edward Durell Stone], undated

6 photographs


Box 10 Folder 30 Manufacturing and Warehouse Building for Yardley of London, Inc. (Totowa, NJ) [Edward Durell Stone], 1959

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 31 Model Houses [Edward Durell Stone?], undated

36 photographic prints ; 4 magazine cut-outs


Box 10 Folder 32 Museo de Arte de Ponce (Ponce, Puerto Rico) [Edward Durell Stone], 1962

2 photographs


Box 10 Folder 33 National Cultural Center (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) (Washington, D.C.)[Edward Durell Stone], 1962

5 photographs


Box 10 Folder 34 New York Civic Center [Edward Durell Stone ; Eggers & Higgins], 1964

2 photographs


Box 10 Folder 35 Palm Beach Apartments (Palm Beach, FL) [Edward Durell Stone], 1962

12 photographs


Box 10 Folder 36 State University of New York at Albany (Albany, NY) [Edward Durell Stone], 1964

7 photographs


Box 10 Folder 37 U.S. Pavilion, Brussels World's Fair [Edward D. Stone], 1956

2 photographs


Box 10 Folder 38 University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC) [Edward Durell Stone], 1958

2 photographs

T


Box 09 Folder 45 Hapuna Bay Hotel (Hawaii) [William B. Tabler], 1967

4 photographs


Box 09 Folder 46 Oris Hotel [William B. Tabler], undated

1 photograph


Box 09 Folder 47 The Statler Hilton (Dallas, TX) [William B. Tabler], 1955

7 photographs


Box 09 Folder 48 The Statler Hilton (White Plains, NY) [William B. Tabler], 1956

1 photograph


Box 09 Folder 49 Staircase [Theo Hoffstater Co.], undated

6 photographs

W


Box 09 Folder 50 Maine State Cultural Building (Augusta, Maine) [Walker O. Cain Associates], 1968

4 photographs


Box 09 Folder 51 Washington University Main Campus: showing possible future development [Washington University School of Architecture], undated

1 photograph


Box 09 Folder 52 White Plains [Webb and Knap / Raymond & May, Assoc.], 1963

2 photographs

Y


Box 09 Folder 53 Michigan Consolidated Gas Company (Detroit, MI) [Minoru Yamasaki -- Smith, Hinchman, Grylls, Associated Architects and Engineers], [1959?] Jun 26

1 photograph, press release for the unveiling of the architectural model, letter and tear sheets (4 copies) from Architectural Forum highlighting model, clipping featuring the model

Subseries 2: By Project Title


Box 10 Folder 39 Arizona Shopping Center, 1959

6 photographs


Box 10 Folder 40 Battery Park City, 1974

Clipping, Flyer, Battery Park City Chronicle (Spring 1974), photograph of Brooklyn Port Authority Piers (see also Downton Photo Set-up)


Box 10 Folder 41 The Brooklyn Union Gas Company / The Brooklyn Savings Bank, undated

3 photographs


Box 10 Folder 42 Chicago Civic Center (Chicago, IL), undated

1 photograph, correspondence, billing


Box 10 Folder 43 Clara Maass Hospital (Belleville, NJ), undated

Negative transparency of proposed plot plan


Box 10 Folder 44 Community Hospital (and Tower?), ca. 1920s

8 photographs


Box 10 Folder 45 Competition For A Monument to Lenin, ca. 1930s

13 photographs


Box 10 Folder 46 Consolidated Edison Fountain, New York World's Fair, ca. 1939

1 photograph (image of model being constructed in studio)


Box 10 Folder 47 Cornell University Buildings (Ithaca, NY), undated

66 photographs (includes images of model being constructed in studio)


Box 10 Folder 48 to 50 Downtown Photo Set-up (Peter Roth), undated

144 photographs (Battery Park City project?)


Oversize 02 Folder 03 Downtown Photo Set-up (Peter Roth)


Box 10 Folder 51 East Newburgh Urban Renewal Project, 1967

8 photographs


Box 10 Folder 52 General Cigar Company, Chicago World's Fair (and Vintage White Owl Exhibit), ca. 1933

3 photographs


Box 10 Folder 53 General Exhibit Building, Chicago World's Fair, undated

3 photographs


Box 10 Folder 54 Hickory Recreation Center, undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 55 Point Park Development (Pittsburg, PA), undated

Tear sheet featuring Louis Checkman photograph of proposed Point Park development and Golden Triangle


Box 10 Folder 56 South Street Seaport Museum ("Historic Block for Lower Manhattan") (New York, NY), 1967

New York City Department of City Planning Newsletter (February-March 1967); exhibition plaque "Manhattan Landing"


Box 10 Folder 57 Tomorrow's World Model, N.Y. Chapter A.I.A. Show, undated

5 photographs (includes photo of model being constructed), clipping


Oversize 02 Folder 04 Tomorrow's World Model, N.Y. Chapter A.I.A. Show


Box 10 Folder 58 Tomorrow's City Hall, Molecular Structure Building, undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 59 War Department Buildings (Washington, D.C.), undated

"Descriptive Memoranda to Accompany Cabinet Sketches"


Box 10 Folder 60 Wright Aeronautical Corporation (Paterson, NJ), undated

1 photograph : aerial view

Subseries 3: Magazine Projects


Box 11 Folder 01 Collier's Magazine, Model House [Fordyce & Homby], undated

6 photographs


Box 11 Folder 02 Collier's Magazine, House of Ideas [Edward D. Stone, Arch.], undated

Tear sheet and a brochure for Weldtex plywood


Box 11 Folder 03 Good Housekeeping, Doll House [Joseph B. Mason, Ed.], Sep. 1951

Reproductions of pages, presumably Good Housekeeping, letter from Joseph Mason, editor of Good Housekeeping, and typescript from Building Forum


Box 11 Folder 04 Ladies Home Journal, Colonial Houses [Richard Pratt, Arch.], 1947-8

Contains tear sheets from Ladies Home Journal (not of models by Conrad, perhaps used for reference?)


Box 11 Folder 05 McCall's Magazine, A Camp House [Paul Thry, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets from McCall's of model of a house built by Conrad (presumably the landscape only), photographed by Stoller, designed by Paul Thiry


Box 11 Folder 06 McCall's Magazine, A House for the Country [Hudson Jackson, Arch.], Feb. 1946

Tear sheets from McCall's of models of houses and McCall's Home of the Month brochure, "A Farm House"


Box 11 Folder 07 McCall's Magazine, A House with a Room to Play In [I.M. Pei and Frederick G. Roth], undated

Tear sheet


Box 11 Folder 08 McCall's Magazine, All the Family Enjoys this House [William Hamby, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 09 McCall's Magazine, Easy to Live in [CC Briggs, Arch.], Mar. 1946

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 10 McCall's Magazine, House [Royal Barry Wills, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 11 McCall's Magazine, It Can Grow with the Family [Katz & Waisman, Arch.], Oct. 1946

Tear sheets and a pamphlet titled "McCall's Home of the Month, April 1948"


Box 11 Folder 12 McCall's Magazine, It's Warm & Snug in Zero Weather [Edgar Hunter Arch.], undated

Tear sheet and a pamphlet titled "McCall's Home of the Month, April 1948"


Box 11 Folder 13 McCall's Magazine, Little Red House [William J. Ward Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 14 McCall's Magazine, One Room Cottage Grows Into a House [Frederick Seidenburg, Arch.], Apr. 1948

Tear sheets and a pamphlet titled "McCall's Home of the Month, April 1948"


Box 11 Folder 15 McCall's Magazine, Planned for Children [Frank Funk Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 16 McCall's Magazine, Planned to fit a 50 Foot Lot [Chiarelli & Kirk Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 17 McCall's Magazine, What Color is you Dream House [David J. Arahams, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 18 McCall's Magazine, Your First House [Huson Jackson, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 19 Woman's Home Companion, A Home with a Hearth [Perry Duncan, Arch.], May. 1948

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 20 Woman's Home Companion, Big as you Like it [Edward D. Stone, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 21 Woman's Home Companion, Exhibition House [Gregory Ain for The Museum of Modern Art], 1950

2 photographs and tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 22 Woman's Home Companion, Expandable House [Gordon Drake], ca. 1947

Contains drawings, sketches and tear sheets from Women's Home Companion


Box 11 Folder 23 Woman's Home Companion, How a Cottage Grows up-Esi-Bild Country Cottage No 91, undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 24 Woman's Home Companion, Salt-Box Up to Date [Frank Harper Bissell], Oct. 1949

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 25 Woman's Home Companion, Spyrer House, undated

3 photographs


Box 11 Folder 26 Woman's Home Companion, Winter Sun & Summer Breeze [O'Neil Ford & Jerry Rodgers, Arch.], undated

Tear sheets


Box 11 Folder 27 Women's Home Companion House [Ford & Rogers], undated

2 photographs

Subseries 4: Unidentified Buildings


Box 10 Folder 60 Apartment Buildings and Housing Complexes, undated

7 photographs


Box 10 Folder 61 Building Complexes, undated

9 photographs (3 projects)


Box 10 Folder 62 Church, undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 63 City Sections, undated

6 photographs (3 projects)


Box 10 Folder 64 Cross Section Models, undated

4 photographs (4 projects)


Oversize 02 Folder 05 Industrial Plant, undated

1 photograph


Box 10 Folder 65 Miscellaneous Structures, undated

3 photographs (3 projects)


Box 10 Folder 66 Office or Institutional Buildings, undated

25 photographs (11 projects)


Box 10 Folder 67 Recreation Centers, undated

2 photographs (2 projects)


Box 10 Folder 68 to 69 Residences [1 of 2], undated

62 photographs, 3 prints of floor plans (multiple projects)


Oversize 02 Residences [2 of 2], undated

9 photographs


Box 10 Folder 70 Small Town Models, undated

13 photographs (3 projects)

Subseries 5: Reference


Box 09 Folder 54 Images of Models, undated

Color printouts of photographs for a selection of Conrad models [complied after Conrad's death?]

Series II: Accounting Records


Box 01 Folder 01 to 02 Project lists, 1950s-1970s

[2 folders]


Box 01 Folder 03 Project billing and correspondence, 1940s

Bills, 1942, 1948


Box 01 Folder 03 to 13 Project billing and correspondence, 1950s

[1:3] Bills, 1950-1959

[1:4] 1951-1952

[1:5] Job File (#651 to 730), 1954

[1:6] Job File (#736 to 831), 1955

[1:7-8] Job File (#961 to 1159), 1957

[1-9-10] Job File (#1160 to 1371), 1958

[1:11-13] "Jobs Alphabetical Order & Billed Price", 1959


Box 01 to 05 Project billing and correspondence, 1960s

[1:14-15] "Client's Bills Paid", 1960

[1:16] "Bills in Alphab. Order of Architects, Jobs", 1960

[1:17] "Jobs Alphabetical Order & Billing Prices", 1960

[1:18-19] Job File (A to Z), 1960

[1:20] "Customers Unpaid Bills / Numerical order", 1960-1961

[1:21] "Customers Bills Paid / Numerical order", 1961

[1:22] "Bills in Alphabetical Order", 1961

[1:22-24] Job File A to Z, 1961

[2:1-2] "Job File A to Z", 1962

[2:3] Unpaid and Paid Bills, 1962

[2:4-9] "Correspondence & Bills" A to Z, 1963

[2:10-12] "Paid Bills", "Unpaid Bills", "Bills-Alphabetical Order", 1963

[2:13-15] Job File (A to Z), 1963

[3:1] Paid Bills, 1964

[3:2] Bills Alphabetical Order, 1964

[3:3-5] [alphabetical], 1964

[3:6-11] Correspondence (A to Z), 1964

[3:12-13] Paid and Unpaid Bills, 1965

[3:14-16] Job File (A to Z), 1965

[4:1-7] Correspondence (A to Z), 1965

[4:8] Paid and Unpaid Bills, 1966

[4:9-11] Job File (A to Z), 1966

[4:12-13] "Correspondence and Bills A to M", 1966

[4:14] Bills, 1967

[4:15-17] Job File (A to Z), 1967

[5:1] Bills, 1968

[5:2-3] Job File (A to Z), 1968

[5:4] Bills, 1969

[5:5] Job File (A to Z), 1969


Box 05 to 06 Project billing and correspondence, 1970s

[5:6-7] Bills, 1970

[5:8] Job File (A to Z), 1970

[5:9] Bills, 1971

[5:10] Job File (A-Z), 1971

[5:11] Bills, 1972

[5:12] Job File (A-Z), 1972

[5:13] Bills, 1973

[6:1] Job File (A-Z), 1973

[6:2] Bills, 1974

[6:3] Job File (A to Z), 1974

[6:4] Bills, 1975

[6:5] Job File (A to Z), 1975

[6:6] Job File (A to Z), 1976

[6:7] Job File (A to Z), 1977

[6:8] Job File (A to Z), 1978

[6:9] Job File (A to Z), 1979


Box 06 Folder 10 to 11 Project billing and correspondence, 1980s-2000s

[6:10] Job File (A to Z), 1980-1996

[6:11] Correspondence, 1996-2004


Box 06 Folder 12 to 15 Account, Edward Durell Stone, 1955, 1961-1964

Contains bills and some correspondence, arranged alphabetically by year [4 folders]


Box 07 Folder 19 Account, McCall's Magazine, 1946

Contains correspondence and bills regarding model


Box 07 Folder 01 to 09 Account, Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, 1948-1950, 1953-1965, 1967-1969

[9 folders]


Box 07 Folder 10 Account, Woman's Home Companion, 1950s

Series III: Professional Papers


Box 8 Folder 01 Bulletins and Catalogs

Printed material featuring images of models by Conrad, includes: Rockefeller Center Weekly (May 1937) featuring the "$100,000 House of Tomorrow"); Museum of Modern Art bulletin (Fall 1950) on Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; and The Museum of Modern Art catalog "Buildings for Business and Government" (1957); Stephen Shilowitz, Architects; At Cooper Union Alumni News (1971)


Box 07 Folder 11 to 13 Correspondence, general, 1940, 1952-1959


Box 07 Folder 14 Correspondence, general, 1960s


Box 07 Folder 15 Correspondence, general, 1970s


Box 07 Folder 16 Correspondence, general, 1980s


Box 07 Folder 17 to 18 Correspondence, Vollheim Microfoam Corporation, 1960s-1970s

[2 folders]


Oversize 01 Folder 01 Clippings, Conrad, 1939-1974

Arranged chronologically with undated material at the end


Oversize 01 Folder 02 Clippings, McCall's, 1940s-1950s

Includes models possibly by Conrad and Book "McCall's Book of Modern Houses" (1951)


Oversize 01 Folder 02 Clippings, Models [1 of 2], 1940s-1960s

Newspaper clippings and tear sheets documenting Conrad's projects


Box 08 Folder 03 Clippings, Models [2 of 2], 1937-88

Newspaper clippings documenting Conrad's projects


Oversize 01 Folder 04 Clippings, Universal Atlas Cements Ads, 1956-1957

Includes the following projects: Airport [Victor Gruen Associates], Supper Club (Shoreline Development) [Antonin Raymond & L.L. Rado, Architects], Molecular Structure Building [Louis I. Kahn], St. John's Abbey and University (Collegeville, MN) [Marcel Breuer], Hotel (Puerto Rico) [Toro-Ferrer and Charles H. Warner, Jr.], Stadium [Antonin Raymond & L.L. Rado, Architects], Battery Park Housing (New York, NY) [I.M. Pei]


Box 08 Folder 03 Delta Post-War Shop Planning Contest, 1934

Includes application and correspondence for Delta Workshop Contest


Box 08 Folder 04 Forms, contracts and estimates, undated


Box 08 Folder 05 to 09 Shop and Model Making Photographs, 1930s-1950s?

Includes images of Conrad's model workshops at 250 Ogden Avenue, 31 Griffith Street, Franklin Street, Radio City, and Corbett's Office. Includes interior shop photographs of equipment and of the construction of various models. [4 folders]


Box 08 Folder 15 Standards of Apprenticeship for the Trade of Model Making (U.S. Department of Labor), 1952-1953

Also includes Builder Certificate for Conrad


Box 08 Folder 10 to 13 Washington Village of Jersey City Heights, Hudson City Historical Society, 1980s

Historic preservation packet and scrapbook on Washington Village, New Jersey City. Conrad's House (formerly Gov. Ogden's house) on cover. [4 copies]


Box 08 Folder 14 War Effort Memorial Album ("Dec. 7, 1941") [complied by Theodore Conrad], 1991

Contains stories from the Jersey Journal and includes a piece on Conrad

Series IV: Personal Papers


Box 09 Folder 01 Drawings

Includes mostly non-project related drawings and print reproductions


Box 09 Folder 02 Photographs, Theodore Conrad, ca. 1940s-1970s


Box 09 Folder 03 Photographs, Miscellaneous


Box 09 Folder 04 Selective Service (U.S. Navy), 1942-1944

Correspondence, forms, and other paperwork

Series V: Reference


Box 08 Folder 14 Aircraft Spotters' Guide, Part I-IV, 1942

4 booklets


Box 08 Folder 24 Alfonso Alvarez, Architect, undated

Office pamphlet "Portrait of the Office of Alfonso Alvarez, Architect & Associates"


Oversize 01 Folder 05 Bakery Shop Model Parts, undated

6 photographs


Box 08 Folder 15 Delta Machinery Catalogs, undated

Contains product sheets and catalogs for Delta workshop machinery


Box 09 Folder 5 George Washington Masonic National Memorial, 1925

Publication


Box 08 Folder 16 Grossinger Airport: Plane and Technical Details, undated

Contains black and white prints of WWII aircraft


Box 08 Folder 17 Koven All Steel Swimming Pool, undated

Product sheet


Box 08 Folder 18 Model Aircraft Photographs, undated

4 mounted prints ; stamped note "Not to be used for advertising or reproduced in any manner. Property of U.S. Navy"


Box 09 Folder 06 to 12 Model Making Materials, undated

Contains product sheets and catalogs for model making materials


Box 08 Folder 19 Otis Escalator Drawings, undated

Contains drawing set of Type 32 Escalator ; stamped "Skidmore, Ownings & Merrill"


Box 08 Folder 20 Promotional Material, competitors, undated

Promotional material from Model Buildings Inc. and Industrial Models Inc.


Box 08 Folder 21 Stone, Edward Durell, undated

Clippings


Box 08 Folder 22 Trees, undated

Contains photo prints of trees and notes about standardization of tree types and sizes for model-making purposes


Box 08 Folder 23 Tool Catalogs, undated

Contain product sheets and catalogs for workshop machinery

Series VI: Architectural Drawings


Tube 01 Roll 01 Battery Park City, 1974

10 items : contains siteplan blueprint, 1:500, slab elevation plan 1/16"=1'-0", tower drawings


Tube 01 Roll 02 Battery Park City, undated

14 items : includes siteplan blueprint, design frawings, color coded plans, trace drawings


Tube 02 Roll 03 Battery Park City, undated

10 items : includes siteplans, surveys, etc


Tube 02 Roll 04 Battery Park City, ca. 1973

18 items : includes siteplans, surveys, plans of Manhattan Community College by Caudill, Rowlett, Scott


Tube 03 Roll 05 Battery Park City, undated

14 items : includes siteplans, surveys, etc


Tube 03 Roll 06 Battery Park City, undated

5 items : contains trace drawings that go with drawings in rolls


Tube 03 Roll 07 Collier's Magazine, Model House [Fordyce & Hamby], 1937

8 items : contains blueprints: Plans, elevations, section of Collier House by Ammon Fordyce and William I. Hamby


Tube 03 Roll 08 Collier's Magazine, Weekend House [Edward D. Stone], 1938

4 items : contains blueprints


Tube 03 Roll 09 Hackensack Meadowlands District, New Jersey, undated

2 items : contains "Hackensack Meadowlands District Official Zoning Map", 1"=3,000' and "Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commision" arial poster, 1"=1000'


Tube 04 Roll 10 Hirshhorn Museum [Skidmore, Owings & Merrill], undated

10 items : contains blueprints and sepia prints of Hirshhorn museum by SOM´s Gordon Bunshaft


Tube 04 Roll 11 Liberty Park, undated

2 items : contains siteplan


Tube 04 Roll 12 Manhattan Street Study, undated

1 item : contains one long drawing, badly damaged, depicting Manhattan from Battery Park to Brooklyn Bridge, elsewhere marked "Lower Manhattan, Water St. Study"


Tube 05 Roll 13 Miscellaneous Projects, 1941-42

4 items : contains blueprints: Plan of Rockefeller Apartments, plan of Rockefeller Plaza by Harrison and Fouilhoux, plan of trailer farm display by Johns Manville Corporation


Tube 05 Roll 14 New York World's Fair 1939 [Goodwin, Kebbon, Snow, Ketchum and Snow], 1936-37

3 items : contains diazo prints for Focal Food Buildling


Tube 06 Roll 15 World Trade Center, undated

20 items


Tube 07 Roll 16 Unidentified, Athletics Complex [CUHA?], undated

17 items : contains blueprints, some with sketches on trace paper. Perhaps this is the St. Louis Sports Stadium by Edward Durell Stone as seen in the photocopied newspaper clipping collection, 1963


Tube 07 Roll 17 Unidentified, Athletics Complex [CUHA?], undated

20 items : contains blueprints, some with sketches on trace paper


Tube 07 Roll 18 Unidentified, Highrise Building, undated

2 items : contains identical photocopies of 60 fl. unidentified highrise


Tube 07 Roll 19 Unidentified, Park Complex, undated

6 items : contains blueprints, one over 6' long

Series VI: Object

Model Airplane