documents the life and development of architect Arthur T. Sutcliffe. The series is composed primarily of diaries, photographs, architectural drawings, watercolor sketches, correspondence, architectural drawing tools, 2,495 postcards and other collected ephemera of Arthur T. Sutcliffe. The subjects of the watercolor sketches range from residential renderings to still life drawings. The diaries in the collection were kept by Arthur Sutcliffe from 1884 to 1971. Each year has its own diary and every day has an entry by Sutcliffe..
Box 01 Folder 01 to 02
Biographical/Background Information, 1906-1959
2 folders; includes a short biography of Sutcliffe as well as personal papers such as miscellaneous certificates, identification cards, and writings.
Box 12
Conch Shells, undated
Box 01 Folder 03
Correspondence, Edwin Ginn, 1903
Box 01 Folder 04 to 05
Correspondence, General, 1902-1968
Box 01 Folder 06
Correspondence, William and Ida Sutcliffe, 1906-1907
Letters written during a trip to Europe; includes ephemera collected during the trip.
Box 06 to 11
Diaries, 1884-1971
Box 05 Folder 01
Ecole Des Beaux Art, 1906-1907
Box 05 Folder 02
Gustave Umbdenstock, "Conference D'Architecture", 1908
Signed and addressed by Umbdenstock to his student Sutcliffe.
Box 05 Folder 03
Gustave Umbdenstock, Portrait, undated
Signed and addressed by Umbdenstock.
Box 01 Folder 07
Photographs [1 of 2], undated
Box 01 Folder 08
Photographs [2 of 2], undated
Box 01 Folder 09
Photographs and clippings of friends and mentors, 1887-1932
George Grey Barnard, Edna Barnard, Edwin Ginn, Grace Bigelow, Theophilus Parons Chandler, William Henry Cusack, George B. Ford.
Box 15
Postcard Collection, undated
United States, Virgin Islans, Puerto Rico, Canada, Bermuda, Bahamas, Jamaica, Mexico, Cuba.
Box 16
Postcard Collection, undated
Box 17
Postcard Collection, 1906-1907
France; collected while a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
Box 18
Postcard Collection, undated
England, Scotland, Switzerland, Ireland, Russia, Hungary, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Greece, Denmark, Syria.
Box 19
Postcard Collection, undated
Italy, greeting cards, ships, flowers, airplanes, art works.
Box 20
Postcard Collection, undated
Box 05 Folder 04
Poughkeepsie High School Commencement Excercises, 1894
Includes Commencement program and Sutcliffe's commencement essay "Evolution in Architecture."
Box 05 Folder 05
Theophilus P. Chandler Material, 1898-1927
Primarily photographs and sketches of buildings designed by Chandler.
Box 01 Folder 10
Architectural Drawings [1 of 2], undated
Pencil on trace drawing with color wash.
Box 05 Folder 06
Architectural Drawings [2 of 2], ca. 1900s
Box 05 Folder 07
Notebook, 1898-1900
Pencil and watercolor sketches.
Box 05 Folder 08
Residential Renderings, undated
Primarily watercolor paintings, but some ink drawings.
Box 01 Folder 11 to 13
Sketches, undated
3 folders; primarily watercolor paintings, but some ink or pencil drawings.
Box 02 Folder 01
Tie Pin, 1908
Engraved with "Staff of Ernest Flagg Architect, 1908" and an image of the Singer Tower.
Box 02 Folder 02
American Institute of Architects, Annual Convention, New York, NY, 1925
Medal and committee ribbon.
Box 02 Folder 03
Eastman College memory books, 1894
2 books as well as a drawing and poem of William Henry Cusack.
Box 02 Folder 04
Long Island Country Club, 1953-1962
Photographs, by-laws, book of officers and directors, and a brief history.
Box 02 Folder 05
Miscellaneous French architecutral studies, undated
Box 02 Folder 06
Office of Ernest Flagg letterheads, forms, and cards, undated
Box 02 Folder 07
Pamphlets on the Loire Chateaux and Paris, 1906
Box 02 Folder 08
Poughkeepsie, New York [1 of 2], ca. 1890-1910s
Box 02 Folder 09
Poughkeepsie, New York [2 of 2], 1889-1931
Box 02 Folder 10
Set of architectural drawing tools, undated
In a black leather box (#601); includes calipers and compasses.