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, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
The architectural drawings in the collection represent 20 projects dated from the 1900s to the 1920s. Each project was catalogued separately in the online catalog. This finding aid provides a link to each project's associated record. Sheet level description can be found in these project-level records. Each sheet is individually accessioned with numbers ranging from 1000.006.00001 through .00111.
Also included are reports and pamphlets, 1915-1919 and undated, of the Association for the Study and Propaganda of the International Pax-State (Etat-Pax, in French), of which Guimard was a member (the Association was in favor of assuring the security, prosperity, and independence of nations through super-armament), and an issue, 1933, of PAX INTERNATIONAL, the monthly journal of the Ligue Internationale de Femmes pour la Paix et la LiberteĢ, whose honorary president was Jane Addams.
Drawings are arranged in chronological order.
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, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
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Hector Guimard architectural drawings and papers. Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Source of acquisition--Gift. Accession number--1000.006.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
2009-06-25 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
French architect. Guimard was a leading practioner of the Art Nouveau style, working primarily in Paris.
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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