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 and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
This collection contains extensive photographs and a large sample of historical project files from Presbrey-Leland Inc., a company producing burial memorials and monuments based in Valhalla, New York. The 10 boxes of project files are arranged in order by project number assigned by Presbrey-Leland (project numbers range from 21321 to 95029), and contain sketches, architectural drawings and blueprints, correspondence with clients, invoices and estimates, and photographs. There is no corresponding project list for this collection. The 14 boxes of photographs are arranged in groupings by numbers 1 thru 51, with each grouping containing photographs from many different projects. Photographs are of headstones, memorials, mausoleums and other architectural burial monuments at various cemeteries. Additional miscellaneous files in the collection include 3 binders of photographs of drawings of various architectural elements (including tablets, headstones, and garden furniture), 1 small binder of sketches with project numbers, and files on Lettering and Trinity Church, Church of the Intercession.
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 and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
Presbrey-Leland Inc. records, Drawings and Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Drawings & Archives also holds a watercolor of a Presbrey-Leland memorial for Emil Grolljahn, as well as 2 photographs of garages owned by Grolljahn. Avery Classics maintains a large collection of Presbrey-Leland trade catalogues.
This collection was donated by Nancy Dillon in 2011 (2011.005).
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
This collection was processed by Architecture Archivist Pamela Casey in 2021.
Established in New York state over 120 years ago, Presbrey-Leland Inc. is a major company in the field of burial monuments and mausoleums.
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