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Avery Drawings & Archives

Alexander McMillan Welch architectural drawings and papers, 1886-1937

1,838 architectural drawings
Alexander McMillan Welch (1869-1943) was a New York City based architect who practiced independently and as a member of Welch, Smith & Provot. His firm was best known for designing New York City townhouses in the Beaux-Arts style. The collection includes 1,641 architectural drawings, 196 student drawings, 14 student notebooks, 99 loose photographs and 3 photo albums of project photography, project specifications and files, and some professional ephemera.
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Edward Brush house (Greenwich, Conn.), 1900-05-22 Range nyda.1000.016.00928 - nyda.1000.016.00931

Edward Brush house (Greenwich, Conn.), 1900-05-22
Transcribed title: Present layout of house of Edward Brush, Esq., Greenwich, Conn. / Welch, Smith
4 photomechanical reproductions : blueprint on paper ; 53 x 38.3 cm. (20 7/8 x 15 1/8 in.) or

4 photomechanical reproductions : blueprint on paper ; 53 x 38.3 cm. (20 7/8 x 15 1/8 in.) or smaller.

  1. Series I: Architectural Drawings

Methodist Episcopal church (Southport, Conn.), undated Range nyda.1000.016.01719 - nyda.1000.016.01721

Methodist Episcopal church (Southport, Conn.), undated
Transcribed title: Design for proposed M.E. church, Southport, Conn. : Rev. T.P. Tower, pastor
3 drawings : various media ; 56.4 x 78.7 cm. (22 2/8 x 31 in.) or smaller.

3 drawings : various media ; 56.4 x 78.7 cm. (22 2/8 x 31 in.) or smaller.

  1. Series I: Architectural Drawings
Avery Drawings & Archives

Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company architectural records, 1866-1985, bulk 1890-1942

40.1 linear feet
This collection is made up of architectural drawings, correspondence, specifications, contracts, invoices, minutes, financial statements, patents, advertisements, photographs, photograph album, test results and reports, memoranda, tile samples, factory order cards, and other materials pertaining to The Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company's projects. The dates of the materials span 1866-1985, with bulk dates 1890-1942. The architectural records include structural, decorative, and acoustical sample products and fragments. Also included are materials added to the files by George Collins (1917-1993), Professor of Art History at Columbia University. Prof. Collins secured the donation of this archive in 1963, and remained its custodian until it was transferred to the Drawings and Archives Collection at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library in 1988. The records document Prof. Collins' research efforts, as well as the Company's projects in forty states (including District of Columbia), four Canadian provinces, and eleven other foreign countries.
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Peter H.L. and Edith Chang papers, 1930s-2001

60 linear feet

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, documents, artwork, calligraphies, study materials, photographs published manertal, and clippings, detailing the various stages of the life of Peter and Edith Chang.

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George Whiting Hibbitt papers, 1865-1965

3 boxes

Notes and research compiled by Hibbitt for a proposed book on Mary Delany and her contemporaries, the Duchess of Portland and Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay). Also, letters from approximately forty authors and public figures, mainly to George W. Hibbitt.

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Columbia University Archives

Columbia College papers, 1703-1964, bulk 1754-1920

67.08 linear feet
The surviving files of official correspondence, reports, documents, and printed materials of King's College from 1750 to 1784 and Columbia College from 1785 to 1890, as well as Columbia University up to 1964. The King's College era materials include grants, deeds, indentures, lists of governors, leases, accounts, etc. The Columbia College era papers commence with documentation regarding the attempts to revive the college at the end of the American Revolution. In the later period these papers primarily supplement and document the minutes of the meetings of the Board of Governors and the Board of Trustees. Much material was destroyed and scattered in the late 19th century leaving this collection quite incomplete.
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Adolph Oko collection of Spinoza materials, 1610-1958, bulk 1914-1958

13 linear feet
The Adolph Oko collection of Spinoza materials contains correspondence surrounding the Domus Spinoza and Spinoza-related findings. Also included are Oko's personal notes on Spinoza, his collected Spinoza ephemera, and Spinoza-related clippings, as well as some of Oko's personal photographs, primarily of himself and Dr. Carl Gebhardt. It also contains the card files belonging to Oko, Gebhardt, and the Spinoza Bibliography.
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Park Benjamin papers, 1645-1925

9.24 linear feet

Correspondence, manuscripts of poems, and manuscripts of lectures by Benjamin. The correspondence consists of original letters of Benjamin, typescript and photostatic copies of Benjamin letters in other libraries, and letters to Benjamin from some of his literary contemporaries including Paul Hamilton Hayne, Willis Gaylord Clark, John Lothrop Motley, and Fitz-Greene Halleck. Many of the letters relate to Park Benjamin's lecture tours. There are other family letters and many documents relating to the Benjamin family,and two letterbooks of John Lothrop Motley. Also, a large amount of genealogical material of the Benjamin family, and its related families from the 16th century to the present day. There are also financial records, monographs, clippings, and photographs.

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