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The Frank Lloyd Wright Miscellanea is composed of transcripts of speeches, interviews, magazine and newspaper clippings by and about the world-famous architect. The collection also includes printed materials related to various Frank Loyd Wright-themed exhibitions, associations, building and house tours, restoration efforts and ephemera gleaned from disparate sources. The collection contains minimal personal correspondence from Frank Lloyd Wright (the collection contains only two examples) but does include correspondence about Frank Lloyd Wright from Lloyd Wright (son), Edgar Kaufmann, and Edgar Tafel.
Series I: Speeches and Interviews consists of transcripts of talks and speeches that Frank Lloyd Wright delivered on various occasions and locations including Princeton University (1947), University of Denver (1948), and Taliesin (1953). Only one page survives of an unidentified speech given at Taliesin in 1932. Transcripts from a two-part interview with Mike Wallace in 1957 and a transcript of an interview with Jink Falkenberg in 1957 are included.
Series II: Biographical Publications / Correspondence includes a photocopy of a letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to his daughter, Catherine and her husband Kenneth written in 1921 from the Imperial Hotel. This series contains correspondence from Lloyd Wright (FLW'son) to Linn Cowles in which Lloyd recounts a trip to Europe with his father and other reminiscences. This series also contains various biographies (drafts and completed works) and research notes by Harvey Einbinder, Thomas S. Hines, Jr., Thomas A. Heinz, and Robert C. Twomby. Recollections of days at Taliesin by Noverre Musson and a brief history of the Usonia Homes project by Priscilla J. Henken are included. Also includes correspondence relating to the Guggenheim Museum commission and various notes from former Taliesin Fellow, Edgar Tafel.
Series III: Associatons / Tours / Restoration Activities documents the various groups and organizations that have formed to honor and preserve Frank Lloyd Wright's work through house tours and preservation projects. Includes paint samples and contact sheets related to the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation and statistics related to visitors and venues generated by tours of Fallingwater.
Series IV: Exhibitions / Auctions contains exhibition catalogs, announcements, guest lists and sellers catalogs for various Frank Lloyd Wright themed exhibitions and auctions. Includes printed materials related to the Frank Lloyd Wright room exhibition at the V & A Museum in London.
Series V: Ephemera consists of a brochure with map, promotional pennant flag and room rate and meal tariff card from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. Also includes a whimsical cut-and-fold model of the Robie House, issued by Monte Enterprises, and Frank Lloyd Wright postage stamps issued in 1966 as part of the "Prominent Americans" series.
Series VI: Newspaper Clippings includes numerous clippings from local and national newspapers grouped by theme or subject. Includes Frank Lloyd Wright obituaries, biographical portraits, articles about FLW's family (children, grandchildren), book reviews, critiques and criticisms. Also includes documentation of the Guggenheim Museum building and the public response to it.
Series VII: Photographs contains black and white photographs of the entrance to the Johnson Wax Company Building in Racine, Wisconsin, the Barnsdall House in Los Angeles, California and the John Pew House in Madison, Wisconsin. Also included is a group photograph taken in the interior of the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan in 1929 on the occasion of the World Engineering Congress.
Series VIII: Publications primarily consists of magazine and journal articles from the 1930s through the 1960s originally housed in the Ware Library vertical files. Some highlights include the complete, bound January 1938 and January 1951 issues of The Architectural Forum and the November 1955 issue of House Beautiful. Also includes typewritten bibliographies, one of which was prepared by James Muggenburg in 1970.
1905-1995
This collection was donated in various gifts (accession number 1000.095)
Magazine and newspaper articles are mainly from the Ware Library vertical files
This collection is arranged in eight series: I. Speeches and Interviews. II. Biographical Publications and Correspondence. III. Associations, Tours and Restoration Activities. IV. Exhibitions and Auctions. V. Ephemera. VI. Newspaper Clippings. VII. Photographs. VIII. Publications (Journal and Magazine Clippings).
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 and to make an appointment, please call (212) 854-4110 or email avery-drawings@libraries.columbia.edu.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Miscellanea, circa 1905-1995 (bulk 1940s-1960s), Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Source of acquisition--Various gifts. Accession number--1000.095.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Processed; Emilie Anderson 2011.
2011-08-25 File created.
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American Architect internationally recognized for his distinctive Prairie Style houses, innovative building design, Taliesin school and fellowships, and philosophy of "organic architecture.".
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consists of transcripts of talks and speeches that Frank Lloyd Wright delivered on various occasions and locations including Princeton University (1947), University of Denver (1948), and Taliesin (1953). Only one page survives of an unidentified speech given at Taliesin in 1932. Transcripts from a two-part interview with Mike Wallace in 1957 and a transcript of an interview with Jink Falkenberg in 1957 are included.
Box 01 Folder 01
6 p. : Typewritten copy.
Box 01 Folder 02
Transcribed by Rodney Sylvan. Includes handwritten notes and typed first draft (by Sylvan). Edited by Joseph Shelley.
Box 01 Folder 03
Transcript of NBC radio program narrated by Morgan Beatty; includes interview segments of FLW.
Box 01 Folder 04
Transcript of a two-part radio interview.
Box 01 Folder 05
Transcript of an interview with Jinx Falkenburg.
Box 01 Folder 06
Transcript and one copy of a Sunday morning talk.
Box 01 Folder 07
Text related to the Guggenheim Museum. Typed copy marked "From FLLW office [unknown] to EK Jr."
Box 01 Folder 08
Page 6 of an unidentified talk or speech by FLW at Taliesin.
includes a photocopy of a letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to his daughter, Catherine and her husband Kenneth written in 1921 from the Imperial Hotel. This series contains correspondence from Lloyd Wright (FLW'son) to Linn Cowles in which Lloyd recounts a trip to Europe with his father and other reminiscences. This series also contains various biographies (drafts and completed works) and research notes by Harvey Einbinder, Thomas S. Hines, Jr., Thomas A. Heinz, and Robert C. Twomby. Recollections of days at Taliesin by Noverre Musson and a brief history of the Usonia Homes project by Priscilla J. Henken are included. Also includes correspondence relating to the Guggenheim Museum commission and various notes from former Taliesin Fellow, Edgar Tafel.
Box 01 Folder 09
FLW family group chart compiled in 1969 by Mrs. David Wright. Multigenerational pedigree chart (FLW's parents, etc.) is attached. Includes photocopies of passports issued to Frank Lloyd Wright and Catherine L. Wright in 1905 and correspondence related to FLW's mother's family and her death date.
Box 01 Folder 09
Photocopy of a letter written from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo on February 7, 1921.
Box 01 Folder 10
Correspondence from Lloyd Wright (FLW's son) to Linn Cowles; includes reminiscences of his father in a letter dated February 3, 1966; with a letter, in German, to Linn Cowles dated December 1965 (Wasmuth publication?) Also includes handmade Christmas cards and Lloyd Wright memorial service program from 1978.
Box 01 Folder 11
Photocopy of an 11 page typewritten prospectus for the book Einbinder would later write.
Box 01 Folder 12
Final published copy and photocopy; with a letter from the author.
Box 01 Folder 12
Includes copies of his research materials (photocopies of clippings illustrating FLW designs for Luxfer Prism, Co.)
Box 01 Folder 13
Published article appeared in the Spring 1968 issue of Wisconsin Magazine of History; with a letter from the author. Letter indicates that the article forms the substance of Twomby's dissertation.
Box 01 Folder 14
Copy of a published article from the Fall 1992 issue of Wisconsin Academy Review by Mary Jane Hamilton. Biography of Maginel Wright Barney (1877-1966), FLW's sister.
Box 01 Folder 15
Reprinted from The Psychoanalytic Review; with an inscription to Edgar Kaufman from Gordon Globus, MD.
Box 01 Folder 16
Typewritten copy of recollection / reminiscence by Priscilla J. Henken.
Box 01 Folder 17
Typewritten copy with notes by Noverre Musson, an architect and former Taliesin fellow.
Box 01 Folder 18
With response from FLW dated June 10th 1943. Hilla Rebay was the first director and curator of Guggenheim's Museum of Non-Objective Painting. She asks Wright to come to New York to discuss "a building for our collection"
Box 01 Folder 19
Published by Winthrop Laboratories, NY "as a service to the Medical Profession" (?)
Box 01 Folder 20
Includes copy of letter from Charles H. McArthur to Interiors magazine about incorrect attribution of FLW to design of the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, copy of letter from S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. regarding building drawing submission dates. (Gifts of Mr. Edgar Kaufmann) Note: this is NOT correspondence to or from FLW.
Box 01 Folder 21
Edgar Tafel was a Taliesin apprentice. Includes photocopy of a letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to Robert K. Mosher regarding the reason behind the location of Fallingwater dated 1936 with a note from Tafel to Kaufmann; a copy of the eulogy of George N. Cohen written by Edgar Tafel.
documents the various groups and organizations that have formed to honor and preserve Frank Lloyd Wright's work through house tours and preservation projects. Includes paint samples and contact sheets related to the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation and statistics related to visitors and venues generated by tours of Fallingwater.
Box 01 Folder 22
Includes school of architecture information sheet, Foundation brochure, "Day At Taliesin" invitation, Monona Basin Project brochure.
Box 01 Folder 23
Includes 3 copies of FLW Home and Studio brochure, 1 newsletter published by the FLW Association.
Box 01 Folder 24
Includes exhibition announcements, flyers, calendars from 1974 and 1975, correspondence and cards to Avery librarians.
Box 01 Folder 25
Includes promotional materials and a 1980 board membership list, brochures, and restoration building plans.
Box 01 Folder 26
Includes contact sheets of images of restoration work in progress and finished work, with letter to Edgar Kaufman from John Michiels, Architectural Consultant for the restoration.
Box 02 Folder 01
Includes Foundation 1985 Annual Report, tour and membership brochures, cards, post-cards, publications on the history of the house that FLW built for Susan Lawrence Dana.
Box 02 Folder 02
Contains two publications written by Loren Pope on the subject of the Pope-Leighey House, printed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC.
Box 02 Folder 03
Contains tour brochures.
Box 02 Folder 04
Coverage in the picture section of the Minneapolis Tribune, dated August 20, 1972.
Box 02 Folder 05
Includes one copy of "Water, Land and Life" which features a story about Fallingwater tours and correspondence between the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and William Shopsin regarding visitors and monies generated by tours of Fallingwater.
Box 02 Folder 06
contains exhibition catalogs, announcements, guest lists and sellers catalogs for various Frank Lloyd Wright themed exhibitions and auctions. Includes printed materials related to the Frank Lloyd Wright room exhibition at the V & A Museum in London.
Box 02 Folder 07
Includes catalog for travelling exhibition to Florence, Italy.
Box 02 Folder 08
Contains exhibition catalog and one copy of article from Le Figaro (in French).
Box 02 Folder 09
Contains catalog for exhibition in honor of FLW awarded the Gold Medal for Architecture on May 27, 1953.
Box 02 Folder 10
Contains news clippings, exhibition brochure, correspondence to Edgar Kaufman and interior photograph of an exhibit of a FLW-designed room reconstructed at the V&A Museum in London.
Box 02 Folder 11
Box 02 Folder 12
Includes list of FLW archival materials offered for sale through California Book Auction Galleries, 1981.
consists of a brochure with map, promotional pennant flag and room rate and meal tariff card from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. Also includes a whimsical cut-and-fold model of the Robie House, issued by Monte Enterprises, and Frank Lloyd Wright postage stamps issued in 1966 as part of the "Prominent Americans" series.
Box 02 Folder 13
Brochure, city map, sticker, and room and meal tariff menu.
Box 04 Folder 08
Felt pennant flag.
Drawer 98
Issued by Monte Enterprises (makers of cut and fold models of historical buildings and national monuments); with original mailing envelope with order sheet.
Box 02 Folder 14
U.S. Postage stamps featuring Frank Lloyd Wright and image of the Guggenheim Museum. Part of the "Prominent Americans Series" issued in 1966.
includes numerous clippings from local and national newspapers grouped by theme or subject. Includes Frank Lloyd Wright obituaries, biographical portraits, articles about FLW's family (children, grandchildren), book reviews, critiques and criticisms. Also includes documentation of the Guggenheim Museum building and the public response to it.
Box 02 Folder 15
Includes newspaper clippings related to FLW's birth date, early biography, and various obituaries.
Box 02 Folder 16
Includes an obituary of FLW's sister Maginel Wright Barney.
Box 02 Folder 17
Box 02 Folder 18
Includes newspaper clippings related to the design plans for the Guggenheim Musem; criticism and remarks by Robert Moses on the occasion of the Guggenheim dedication.
Box 02 Folder 19
Includes short articles on The Imperial Hotel, Larkin Building, Robie House demolition, and other buildings and projects.
Box 02 Folder 20
Contains articles related to the Monona Terrace project from theWisconsin State Journal.
Box 02 Folder 21
contains black and white photographs of the entrance to the Johnson Wax Company Building in Racine, Wisconsin, the Barnsdall House in Los Angeles, California and the John Pew House in Madison, Wisconsin. Also included is a group photograph taken in the interior of the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan in 1929 on the occasion of the World Engineering Congress.
Box 02 Folder 22
Small (2 1/4" x 3 1/2"), black and white photo.
Box 02 Folder 22
Black and white photograph (4 7/8" x 6 7/8"), front detail.
Box 02 Folder 22
Negative (or contact print?) markedArchitectural Forum.
Box 04 Folder 07
Photograph taken at the Imperial Hotel on the occasion of the World Engineering Congress.
primarily consists of magazine and journal articles from the 1930s through the 1960s originally housed in the Ware Library vertical files. Some highlights include the complete, bound January 1938 and January 1951 issues of The Architectural Forum and the November 1955 issue of House Beautiful. Also includes typewritten bibliographies, one of which was prepared by James Muggenburg in 1970.
Box 02 Folder 23
"Frank Lloyd Wright In Print: 1959 - 1970" bibliography prepared by James Muggenburg; 2 page typewritten bibliography of publications written by FLW; list of FLW building designs 1893-1959 compiled by John Lloyd Wright.
Box 03 Folder 01
Contains the complete, bound January 1938 issue ofThe Architectural Forum.
Box 03 Folder 02
Box 03 Folder 03
Contains complete, bound copies ofThe Japanese Architectfrom 1929;Pencil Pointsfrom 1938; andFLW - An Analysisby T.F. Hamlin.
Box 03 Folder 04
Includes 6 fold-out sketches from the January 1948 issue ofThe Architectural Forum.
Box 03 Folder 05
Includes FLW's essay "The American Quality" from the October 1941 issue ofScribner's Commentator.
Box 03 Folder 06
Includes the complete, bound copy of the Summer 1954 issueLandscape.
Box 04 Folder 01
Includes the complete January 1951 issue ofThe Architectural Forum(Johnson Wax Building and other buildings).
Box 04 Folder 02
Contains 2 copies of the November 1955 FLW issue ofHouse Beautiful(pages 233-382, unbound).
Box 04 Folder 03
Contains "Sixty Years of Living Architecture" - 1952 (in German); and complete, bound issue of the February 1956 issue ofArizona Highwaysfeaturing a special section on FLW and Taliesin.
Box 04 Folder 04
Contains the complete, bound June 1959 issue ofArchitectural Forumspecial issue on FLW and one copy of the FLW special section.
Box 04 Folder 05
IncludesFrank Lloyd Wright's War on the Fine Artsby James Marston Fitch; and multi-part series on FLW that appeared in the "Saturday Evening Post" (on personal life and scandals).
Box 04 Folder 06
Contains the complete, bound May 1962 publication "Let's See" which features a pictorial essay about Taliesin three years after FLW's death.