Box 01 Folder 1
Professional profiles and curriculum vitae, 1976-1980, 1984, 1986-1988
Box 01 Folder 2
Curriculum vitae, [ca. 1961]
Volume 26
Oral history, 1975
Max Abramovitz oral memoir. Interview by Jayne Hilary Bruns. New York : American Jewish Committee, William E. Wiener Oral History Library.
Box 01 Folder 3
Correspondence for oral history, 1975-1976, 1993
Correspondence from the William E. Wiener Oral History Library and the American Jewish Archives. Includes copy of 8-page insert to the Wiener oral history.
Volume 26
Oral history, 1990
Oral history interview with Max Abramovitz . Interview by Sharon Zane. New York Oral History Project, Lincoln Center for ther Performing Arts
Box 01 Folder 4
Correspondence regarding oral history, 1990 Dec. 20
Letter from Sharon Zane, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Item AA685 Ab83 Ab83
Max Abramovitz interviewed by George M. Goodwin, March 31 and May 6, 1993, 2 audiocassettes
ATTENTION: Digitized recording unitelligible due to a recording error.
Tape 1. Side A. Family background [and education]
Tape 1. Side B. [Early career and colleagues]
Tape 2. Side A. [Clients, commissions and colleagues]
Tape 2. Side B. [Clients, commissions and colleagues].
Summary of audio recordings
Box 01 Folder 5
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, 1926
First mention, Palladian windows
Box 01 Folder 5
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, 1928
Box 01 Folder 6
Ricker History Prize Competition, 1928 May 3
Paper entitled Possibilities of an architectural synagogue style by Arch.-I.-Tect [pseudonym].
Box 01 Folder 7
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, 1929
First medal, Restaurant in the air
Box 01 Folder 8
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, 1929
First medal, Masonic Temple
Box 01 Folder 9
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, 1929
Mention, Military academy
Box 01 Folder 10
Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, 1929 Dec. 20
Correspondence from BAID regarding medal.
Box 01 Folder 11
Warren Prize, 1929
5th prize, Recreation center
Box 01 Folder 12
Paris Prize, Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, 1932
Second medal, Academy of music for American composers and musicians
Box 01 Folder 13 to 15
Paris Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, 1932
Second prize, National opera house in Washington
Box 01 Folder 16
American Academy in Rome, 1933 Jan. 5
Box 01 Folder 17
Miscellaneous, 1926-1927, 1930
Drawer 293
Student drawings, 1931
Drawer 394
Student drawing, 1931
1 drawing : Recreation center (Warren Prize)
Student drawing, 1932-1933
1 drawing : Presidential dining room
Drawer 394
Student drawing, undated
Drawer 403
Travel sketches, 1932
Travel sketches, 1933
Drawer 403
Travel sketches, 1932-1933
Drawer 403
Travel sketches, 1932-1933
Drawer 403
Self-portrait, 1933
Item Sketchbook 01
Sketchbook, 1929-1933
29 leaves (21 with sketches or text) : Ink and pencil sketches of existing French and American Beaux-Arts buildings. A few leaves have drawings on both recto and verso.
Project-level record
Item Sketchbook 02
Sketchbook, 1931
62 leaves (52 with sketches) : Most sketches show plans produced by other architects after Beaux-Arts programs; most have extensive notes on verso; many are dated to the date of the plan, e.g. 1904.
Item Sketchbook 03
Sketchbook, [19]33-[19]34
16 leaves (12 with sketches) : Paris. Sketches of people, dogs, etc. as observed from life.
Item Sketchbook 04
Sketchbook, 1934
45 leaves (36 with sketches) : Sketches of 20th c. buildings in Germany, Holland and Belgium. Most include extensive notes.
Item Sketchbook 05
Sketchbook, 1934 Feb. - 1934 Mar.
56 leaves (54 with sketches) : Sketches for Paris, Tel Aviv, Egypt, Syria, and Spain, most with notes.
Item Sketchbook 06
Notebook, 1934-1936
46 leaves (21 pages with sketches) : Pencil on paper, several loose pages, and some pages glued to other pages. In front of book: 1 p. of notes on Housing Exhibition, dated Jan. 22, 1934. Inside back cover, labelled: Studies for Development of Central Park - 1936 -[MA]. All drawings are found in the back of book.
Item Sketchbook 07
Photograph of plan to continue 6th Avenue thru end under Central Park, 1936
Mounted photograph of drawing : Title inscribed on board. Accompanies Notebook with sketches for Development of Central Park
Item Sketchbook 08
Notebook (and envelope) from trips to China for U.S. Army., [1944-45]
29 leaves (lined pages torn from small notebook) : Contains flight information, Mandarin vocabulary, field notes and sketches, and layouts of specific locations. Housed in War Department envelope labeled: Sketches made of Field Trip 1944-45.
Item Sketchbook 09
Sketchbook, [1957?]
27 leaves (l5 with sketches or text) : Pencil, red pencil, ink, and marker sketches for the Assembly Hall, University of Illinois. Sketchbook found with folder of clippings from 1957.
Item Sketchbook 10
Sketchbook, 1960
11 leaves (10 with sketches or text) : Ink sketches of various projects and ideas. Notes in ink and pencil. A few leaves contain notes on both recto and verso. Pages have been removed.
Box 01 Folder 18
Photograph of MA, 1929
1 b&w photo. Annotation of verso, "Univ. of Illinois days 1929."
Box 01 Folder 19
Photographs of Abramovitz, 1929, 1931, 1940, 1942-1947, 1949, 1950-1951
29 b&w photos of MA alone and with others. File includes photos of MA in the military and with the UN design team.b&w
Military Service: Us Army and Air Force, 1942-1955
Box 01 Folder 20 to 23
Military personnel files, 1942-1952, 1954-1955
Files include Certificate of Service, Military Record and Report of Separation, Legion of Merit Citation, and Air Force Reserve Letter Orders.
Box 01 Folder 24
Writings by MA, 1944 Jan. - 1944 Mar.
Typescript containing fourteen dated entries, titled Somewhere in China. 6p.
Box 01 Folder 25
Army officer's notebook, [1944]
Box 01 Folder 26
World War II broadsides, [ca. 1944]
Box 01 Folder 27
Airfields in China: the Engineer section fourteenth Air Force, 1945
File also includes photocopies of photographs, Military Training Certificate (1940), US Army Certificate of Service (1946), Honorable Discharge (1955), and other personnel materials.
Box 01 Folder 28 to 30
Citations , certificates, and honors, 1942, 1945, 1951-1952, 1954
Officer Training School certificate, Legion of Merit citation, Appointment to Lieutenant Colonel and other documents.
Oversize 1 Folder 1
Photograph of MA at Special Course - C.M.T.C., Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y., 1940
Oversize 1 Folder 1
Photograph of MA with Army Air Force unit, Miami Beach, Fla., 1942
Box 01 Folder 31
Photograph of MA at Camouflage School, Hamilton Field, Calif., Fourth Class, undated
Box 01 Folder 32
Passports and identification cards, 1932-1934, 1942, 1945
Box 01 Folder 33 to 34
Clippings and press releases, 1931, 1944-1946, 1952
Includes 1931 guidebook to Berlin architecture with annotations by MA.
Oversize 1 Folder 2
Memorabilia, 1951
Military Service: Project Installations Committee 1952-1953
Box 02 Folder 1
Correspondence: incoming, A-J
Box 02 Folder 2 to 4
Correspondence: incoming, Perry ( John P.H.)
Includes letters from Perry, Deputy for Installations to MA and others. Also, some correspondence from others to Perry.
Box 02 Folder 5
Correspondence: incoming, R-W
Box 02 Folder 6
Correspondence: outgoing, 1952-1953
Box 02 Folder 7 to 10
Committee reports, notes, and memoranda
Includes Study of Procedures for Air Force Construction, Notes on Implementation of Recommendations to Study, report drafts, maps, and memoranda.