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Hugh Ferriss architectural drawings and papers, 1906-1980, bulk 1918-1960

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Series II: Archival Materials

This series consists of a small collection of correspondence with architects and others; talks, including radio talks, and speeches on architecture; photographs of drawings; clippings; job book and listings; records related to the exhibition of Ferriss' work; and some personal material. The collection is divided into sub-series based on each box of this archival collection. History of this inventory is unknown, but likely dates from the 1980s, if not earlier.

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Sub-series 1: New York Projects (Future City): Photographs


Box 1 Airlines Terminal / Peterkin, John


Box 1 Air-supported roof / Stevens, Herbert


Box 1 American Radiator Company Building / Hood, Raymond


Box 1 Apartment Building at 24 West 40th Street / Kahn, Ely Jacques


Box 1 Astor Plaza / Carson, Lundin & Thorson


Box 1 Avenue of the Americas


Box 1 Bank of Manhattan / Severence, H. C.; Matsui, Y.


Box 1 Broadway Tabernacle / Barber, Donn


Box 1 Brooklyn Army Base


Box 1 Bush Terminal / Helmle & Corbett


Box 1 Caltex Petroleum Co. (Amsterdam) / Riley, Chauncey W.


Box 1 Castle Village / Paterno, C. V. (developer)


Box 1 Cathedral of St. John the Divine


Box 1 Chanin Building / Sloan & Robertson


Box 1 Chizuk Amino Congregation / Schwartzman & Turkel & Rosen Partnership


Box 1 Chrysler Building / Van Alen, William


Box 1 City Hall Square; New York Chapter AIA


Box 1 Columbia University, East Campus / Harrison & Abramovitz


Box 1 Convocation Tower / Goodhue, Bertram


Box 1 Daily News Building / Howells & Hood


Box 1 Eastern Airlines Building / Reinhard & Hofmeister, W.K. Harrison & J.A. Fouilhoux


Box 1 Empire State Building / Shreve Lamb & Harmon


Box 1 Fashion Institute of Technology / DeYoung, Moskowita & Rosenberg


Box 1 FDR Drive / Stevenson, Harvey (consulting architect)


Box 1 Hall of Our History / Eisenman & Gugler


Box 1 Hayden Planetarium / Trowbridge & Livingston


Box 1 Lever House / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill


Box 1 Lincoln Center / Harrison & Abramovitz


Box 1 Majestic Hotel


Box 1 Master Building & Roerich Museum / Harrison & MacMurray


Box 1 MMA / Brown, Lawford & Forbes


Box 1 New Year's Eve


Box 1 New York School of Printing / Kelly & Gruzen


Box 1 New York State Psychiatric Institute & Hospital / Jones, S.W.


Box 1 New York World's Fair


Box 1 100 Park Avenue


Box 1 Palisades Bomb Shelter / Atwell, G.J. (Engineer)


Box 1 Pan American World Airways Passenger Terminal / Tippetts, Abbott, McCarthy & Stratton (Engineers)


Box 1 Radio City, Rockefeller Center / Hood & Corbett


Box 1 Salmon Tower / York & Sawyer


Box 1 Shelton Hotel / Harman, A.L.


Box 1 Socony-Vacuum Building / Harrison & Abramovitz


Box 1 Washington Square Park


Box 1 Woolworth Building

Sub-series 2: Ephemera/Illustrations/Brunner Illust./Adv. Drwgs.


Box 2 Washington University, Alumni Citation, 1955


Box 2 Honorary Lunch for HF / Wright, Aalto, W.K. Harrison, etc.


Box 2 101 Park Directory


Box 2 AIA 2/9/62 Show, 1962


Box 2 High School Yearbook 1906, 1906


Box 2 New York the Beautiful -- Banker's Trust Co., 1946


Box 2 Hangers in the Sky -- AI Steel Construction


Box 2 Ricwilville


Box 2 Times Square


Box 2 Chicago Merchandise Mart


Box 2 Cement Companies, drawings for


Box 2 Banker's Trust Company


Box 2 Banker's Trust Company


Box 2 NYC in Wartime, 1918


Box 2 Zoning Law, 1920's, 1920s


Box 2 Zoning Law


Box 2 Fifth Avenue Plaza


Box 2 St. John the Divine (Duplicate of 'Cathedral of St. John the Divine')


Box 2 World Acheivement


Box 2 Egyptian Temple


Box 2 Art Center, Russel Sage Foundation


Box 2 Architectural Review, 1918


Box 2 Second Prize Natco XXX Hollow Title Apartment Building


Box 2 Wanamaker Bridge


Box 2 View North at Ninth and Olive (St. Louis)


Box 2 Student Notes, Washington University


Box 2 Student Notes, Washington University

Sub-series 3: Non-New York City Projects


Box 3 Miscellaneous Letters


Box 3 Cathedral of the Assumption (Baltimore) / Maginnis & Walsh


Box 3 Chicago Board of Trade / Holabird & Root


Box 3 Chicago Tribune Building / Howells & Hood


Box 3 Chicago Exposition


Box 3 Marshall Fields Department Store (Chicago)


Box 3 Players Club (Detroit)


Box 3 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago / Graham, Anderson, Probst & White


Box 3 Institute of Arts / Cret, Paul & others


Box 3 Fisher, GM & Detroit News Buildings / Kahn, Albert


Box 3 David Stott Building / Donaldson & Meier


Box 3 Greater Penobscot, Buhl & Union Guardian Buildings / Smith, Hinchmann & Grylls


Box 3 Public Library / Gilbert, Cass


Box 3 General Motors Technical Center (Detroit) / Saarinen, Swanson & Saarinen


Box 3 Capitol Park (Harrisburg, PA) / Gehron & Ross


Box 3 Peninsular Life Insurance Co. (Jacksonville, FL) / Kemp, Bunch & Jackson


Box 3 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta / Toomb & Co.


Box 3 Upjohn Co. (Kalamazoo, MI) / McAdams, William D.


Box 3 Chamber of Mines (Johannesburg)


Box 3 Bush House (London) / Corbett & Helmle


Box 3 Schine Center (Los Angeles) / Lapidus, Haile & Liebman


Box 3 Palace of the Soviets (Moscow) / Kastner & Stonorov


Box 3 Sterling Memorial Library (New Haven, CT) / Goodhue, Bertram


Box 3 Solomon's Temple - Exposition (Philadephia) / Corbett, Harvey Wiley


Box 3 U.S. Post Office / Sternfield & Ballinger Co.


Box 3 Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building / Howe & Lescaze


Box 3 Reyburn Plaza


Box 3 S.W. Bell Telephone Building (St. Louis) / Mauran, Russell & Crowell


Box 3 Civic Center


Box 3 Plaza


Box 3 Municipal Auditorium


Box 3 Pacific Edgewater Club (San Francisco) / Miller & Pfleuger


Box 3 Stock Exchange / Miller & Pfleuger


Box 3 Memorial (Springfield, MA) / Corbett, Harvey Wiley


Box 3 Mitsui Bank (Tokyo) / Stewart, J.


Box 3 Pershing Memorial Design (Washington, DC) / Harrison & Abramovitz


Box 3 National Academy of Sciences


Box 3 F.D.R. Memorial / Pederson & Tilney


Box 3 West Virginia State Capitol / Gilbert, Cass

Sub-series 4: Advertising/Future City/Diplomas/Non-New York City Projects


Box 4 Diplomas


Box 4 Future City


Box 4 Cement


Box 4 Prudential Insurance Co. (Jacksonville, FL) / Kemp, Bunch & Jackson


Box 4 Shrine of the Ages Chapel (Grand Canyon, AZ) / Wagoner, Harold E.


Box 4 Inter-American Trade Center (Miami, FL) / Smith, R.F. et al


Box 4 Solomon's Temple (Philadelphia, PA) / Corbett, Harvey Wiley


Box 4 Smithsonian Institute, Museum of History and Technology


Box 4 Pershing Memorial / Harrison & Abramovitz


Box 4 National Academy of Science


Box 4 F.D.R. Memorial / Pederson & Tilney

Sub-series 5: Photographs & Archival Material


Box 5A Early New York Scenes


Box 5A Rockefeller Center, 1931


Box 5A Rockefeller Center, 1957


Box 5A Rockefeller Center, 1947


Box 5B United Nations - a-e


Box 5A Palisades Bomb Shelter


Box 5A American Capitols of Industry


Box 5A New York in Wartime, 1917-1919


Box 5A Industrial Drawings (WWII)


Box 5A Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)


Box 5A Angkor


Box 5A Foley Square


Box 5A Idlewild Airport


Box 5A Metropolitan Museum


Box 5A Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1955 proposals, 1955


Box 5A New York World's Fair, 1936-1939


Box 5A New York World's Fair, 1964-1965

Sub-series 6: Illustrations/Brunner Illustrations


Box 6 Unknown


Box 6 Curtis-Wright


Box 6 Dams


Box 6 Dams


Box 6 Fallingwater (Bear Run, PA) / Wright, Frank Lloyd


Box 6 Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI)


Box 6 Larkin Building (Buffalo, NY) / Wright, Frank Lloyd


Box 6 Ford Aircraft Engine Plant (Dearborn, MI)


Box 6 Red Rocks Park (Denver, CO)


Box 6 Grain Elevator (Kansas City, MO)


Box 6 Ohio Steel Foundry (Lima, MO)


Box 6 Triborough Bridge Anchorage, Randall's Island


Box 6 Viaduct on Washington Heights


Box 6 United States Post Office


Box 6 Johnson Wax Building (Racine, WI) / Wright, Frank Lloyd


Box 6 Soldier's Memorial (St. Louis, MO)


Box 6 Oakland Bay Bridge


Box 6 Yerba Buena Tunnel


Box 6 Taliesin-in-Arizona (Scottsdale, AZ) / Wright, Frank Lloyd


Box 6 National Airport (Washington, DC)


Box 6 U.S. Supreme Court Building (Washington, DC)


Box 6 Zapotec Structure (Monte Alban, Mexico)


Box 6 Correspondence


Box 6 Steel Porch

Sub-series 7: Articles, Talks & Citations


Box 7 Biographical Articles, Records


Box 7 Portrait Photographs


Box 7 Letters: architectural collegues & others


Box 7 Rendering; Encyclopedia Britannica article


Box 7 Architectural rendering & architecture; published comment


Box 7 Talks on Architecture, AIA Journal, 1945-1955


Box 7 Radio dialogue with Frank Lloyd Wright


Box 7 AIA: speeches, activities, correspondence


Box 7 AIA & other Architectural Societies: talks


Box 7 Architects League of New York: correspondence, exhibitions, speeches


Box 7 Century Club Activities


Box 7 Citations


Box 7 New York City Art Commission


Box 7 Letters from architectural students & university officials re H.F. talks in the 1920's


Box 7 Talk, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada on the U.N., 1948

Sub-series 8: Designs for a Future City: 1922-1932


Box 8 Lofty Terraces


Box 8 Lure of the City


Box 8 Buildings like Mountains


Box 8 Glass


Box 8 Philosophy


Box 8 Mooring Mast


Box 8 Skyscraper Hangar


Box 8 Portrait


Box 8 Beauty & Reality in Civic Art


Box 8 Misc. proof pages


Box 8 City at Night


Box 8 Crowding Towers


Box 8 Crude clay for architects


Box 8 Reversion to Past Styles


Box 8 Elevated Sidewalks


Box 8 Apartments on Bridges


Box 8 Zoning Studies


Box 8 Zoning Studies


Box 8 Buildings in the Modeling


Box 8 Final Mass Carried out in Steel


Box 8 Terraces on Setbacks


Box 8 Hanging Gardens, NY


Box 8 Two Block Building


Box 8 Imaginary Metropolis, bird's eye view


Box 8 Art Center & Vista in the Art Zone


Box 8 The Science Center


Box 8 Night in the Science Zone


Box 8 Business Center


Box 8 Twin Office Building


Box 8 Isolated Masses


Box 8 Imaginary Seaport


Box 8 Overhead Traffic Ways


Box 8 Pedestrian/Vehicular Trafffic Separation


Box 8 Skyscapers Spanning Streets


Box 8 Zoning Envelopes, 1-4


Box 8 Exhibitions - Roerich Museum


Box 8 Exhibitions - Roerich Museum

Sub-series 9: New York, NY


Box 9 Architectural League, Power of America, 1942


Box 9 Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Industry at War, 1943


Box 9 Whitney Museum, Power of America, 1942


Box 9 American Academy of Arts & Letters, 1943


Box 9 Century Club, 1976


Box 9 Columbia University, Avery Library; "1776-1976"


Box 9 Wasington University, Gallery of Art


Box 9 Smithsonian Institute, National Collection of Fine Arts


Box 9 Koln, Germany, 1980

Sub-series 10: Exhibitions/Job Book/Scrap Book


Box 10 Job Book, 1922-1961


Box 10 Scrap Book


Box 10 Review, Power in Buildings


Box 10 Reviews, Metropolis of Tomorrow


Box 10 United Nations Headquarters


Box 10 Exhibitions - Future City, 1925-1929


Box 10 Unidentified photographs of drawings


Box 10 Lincoln Center


Box 10 Industrial drawings


Box 10 Business diary pages


Box 10 Washington University, Exhibition


Box 10 Exhibitions, 1960-1980


Box 10 Letters re exh. of H.F. work, 1920s


Box 10 Reproductions of Ferriss drawings, clippings, photographs filed with material for book (J. Lerch), 1920s


Box 10 Lofty Terraces