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Avery Drawings & Archives Collections |
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Series I: Photographs
Series II: Drawings, Renderings, and Site Plans
Sub-series 3: Religious Buildings Sub-series 4: Elementary and High Schools Sub-series 5: Colleges and Universities Sub-series 6: Office Buildings Sub-series 7: Medical Buildings Sub-series 8: Memorials and Mausoleums Sub-series 9: Group Housing and Industrial Sub-series 10: Civic Buildings Sub-series 11: United States Naval Training School and Ships |
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DescriptionScope and ContentsThe collection consists of 2,924 photographs and 1,327 drawing reproductions of architectural projects by the firm of John Russell Pope, and later Eggers & Higgins.
Using the CollectionAvery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Conditions Governing AccessThis collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu. Related MaterialsRemoved from the collection and now housed in Avery Classics are albums assembled by John Russell Pope during European travels as source material and retained by the architectural firm of Eggers & Higgins as visual resources. Custodial HistoryThe collection was transferred from University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's David A. Cofrin Library to Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in 2017. About the Finding Aid / Processing InformationColumbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Processing InformationThis collection was processed by Amanda Morrow (Graduate Intern) in 2018-2019 under the supervision of Shelley Hayreh, Avery Archivist. Subject HeadingsThe subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches at Columbia University through the Archival Collections Portal and through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, as well as ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives. All links open new windows. Subject
History / Biographical NoteBiographical / HistoricalEggers & Higgins was a New York architectural firm partnered by Otto Reinhold Eggers (1882–1964) and Daniel Paul Higgins (1886–1953). The pair were longtime associates of Pope in the firm he founded in 1903 as the Office of John Russell Pope, Architect. They changed the name of the firm to Eggers & Higgins in 1937, soon after Pope's death. |