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Avery Library Vertical File, 1910s-1970s
16 linear feetThe materials that comprise the Vertical File have been collected and added to from a variety of sources by former Avery Librarians. The vertical file contains clippings, pamphlets, reprints, and other miscellaneous materials relating to persons, places, organizations, and topical subjects relating to architecture, housing, and city planning. The purpose of the vertical file was to arrange and store small items, memorabilia, and ephemeral material on a variety of topics to facilitate access by researchers. For the most part, the vertical file contains printed items only. Manuscript material and other unique items were, generally, not placed in the vertical file. In some cases, manuscript material has been removed from the Vertical File and placed in its corresponding collection.
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Housing - England [2 of 2], 1928-1948 Box 06, Folder 07
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- Housing - England [2 of 2], 1928-1948
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13 photos, pamphlets, maps, reports
Edith Elmer Wood papers, 1900-1943
72 manuscript boxesEdith Elmer Wood (1871-1945) was a US housing reformer. As lobbyist, writer, and government consultant, she helped define New Deal housing policy. After graduating from Smith College in 1890, she wrote fiction and undertook settlement house work before launching her influential, life-long career in housing reforms. The bulk of the collection is letters but other kinds of material is included, such as drawings, blueprints, manuscripts, maps, photographs, pamphlets, news clippings and hotel receipts.
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Statutory Rules and Orders Box 56, Folder 07
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- Housing of the Workings Classes, England, 1919.; Housing, England, 1920; Statutory Rules and Orders
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Housing of the Workings Classes, England, 1919.; Housing, England, 1920; Statutory Rules and Orders, 1920.;Town Planning, England. 1921.
Daniel D. Tompkins papers, 1795-1940
.42 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, photographs, prints, and printed material relating to Tompkins and his family. The cataloged correspondence includes two letters while he was Governor, one from John Peter Van Ness, New York Congressman, and Tompkin's letter to Rev. Peter I. Van Pelt on the creation of a college on Staten Island. The manuscripts consist of Tompkin's Columbia College valedictory address, biographical and genealogical items. There are 5 portraits of Tompkins and his wife as well as cabinet photographs of the Governor's mansion in Albany
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Tompkins house, England, undated Box 1
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- Tompkins house, England, undated
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Mornington Court, Herefordshire, England. House of our Great, Grandfather Daniel D. Tompkins' family. Their coat of arms is on the first place in the hall. With love from William B. Kaupe to his dear cousin Edith Bush.
Walter Curt Behrendt papers, 1910-1945
3 manuscript boxesWalter Curt Behrendt (1884-1945) was a German-American architect and an active advocate of German modernism. The collection is composed primarily of lectures and writings.
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Max Gordon architectural records and papers, 1944-2010, bulk 1944-1990
10 document boxesMax Gordon (1931-1990) was an internationally renowned architect who specialized in the design of galleries and exhibition spaces for modern and contemporary art. The collection is composed primarily of project files, architectural drawings, photographs, correspondence, legal papers, personal diaries, and student sketchbooks.
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