Henry-Russell Hitchcock papers, 1500-1970, bulk 1800-1970

Summary Information

At a Glance

Bib ID:
3460620 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987
Repository:
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Physical Description:
1 cubic feet
Language(s):
English .
Access:

Description

Summary

Architectural drawings, specifications, manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, ephemera, collected by Hitchcock, and relating to the work of architects Henry Hobson Richardson and Frank Lloyd Wright, including a letter, 1940, from Wright to Hitchcock suggesting the writing of IN THE NATURE OF MATERIALS; the architectural firm Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge; furniture designer Charles Rennie Macintosh; and miscellaneous and unidentified architects dating from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, with the bulk dating from the nineteenth century.

Using the Collection

Preferred Citation

Henry-Russell Hitchcock papers. Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Gift.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Biographical / Historical

Hitchcock (1903-1987) was an architectural historian.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Photographic prints CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
architectural drawings (visual works) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie, 1868-1928 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Richardson, H. H (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Architects -- United States CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Architectural firms CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Architecture -- History CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Furniture designers CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID