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Unwin, Raymond, Sir, 1863-1940. Letters, 1924-1937, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1924-1937, to Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (4 l.).

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Carl L. Feiss papers, [ca.1928]-1991

Title: Carl L. Feiss papers, [ca.1928]-1991

Papers include family and business correspondence, reports, published material, speeches, financial records, minutes and studies, primarily concerning various consulting jobs (largely in the South). Also, material concerning Feiss' participation in various national and international commissions and committees and his work for regional commissions such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. Also, family and personal correspondence of Carl, Paul and Julian Feiss; correspondence of Sir Raymond Unwin; and microfilm of Feiss' papers, 1946-1952, from the now defunct School of Architecture, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado.

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Warren Jay Vinton papers, 1932-1969

Title: Warren Jay Vinton papers, 1932-1969

Consists primarily of correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, minutes, reports, pamphlets, programs, newsletters, membership lists, reprints, speeches, press releases, broadsides, clippings, photographs, and copies of legislative hearings and bills documenting Vinton's active role in designing and implementing federal housing policies from 1935 to 1957. Papers concern many aspects of governmental activity in the public housing area, including low-income housing, defense housing, housing for the elderly, racial policy in public housing, and particularly the development and passage of housing legislation and congressional investigations of federal housing practices. In addition to Vinton's own work, the papers document the work and opinions of many other planners, architects, housing experts, economists, federal administrators, and politicians.

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Justin R. Hartzog papers, 1917-1966.

Title: Justin R. Hartzog papers, 1917-1966.

Correspondence, reports, blueprints, whiteprints, maps, pamphlets, monographs, and newspaper clippings mainly concerning his association (1922-1937) with John Nolen.

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Nolen, John, 1869-1937. John Nolen papers, 1890-1938, 1954-1960.

Title: John Nolen papers, 1890-1938, 1954-1960.

Collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, letterbooks, addresses, biographical data, diaries, scrapbooks, school notes and textbooks, syllabi, lectures and outlines, typescript papers and articles, printed material, policy directives, card files, sample contracts, projects files and reports, slides, photographs, negatives, plans, blueprints, drawings, charts, and maps relating to Nolen's work in city planning, preservation, survey projects, zoning, and extension programs. Includes records pertaining to Nolen's studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard; his work at the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching; consulting jobs; projects with the United States Housing Corporation, National Resources Committee, National Park Service, National Resources Planning Board, Federal Emergency Relief Administration of Public Works, Resettlement Administration, Department of the Interior, Division of Subsistence Homesteads, and various city and state agencies; and housing, parks, streets, railways, and water systems in Bridgeport, Conn., Charlotte, N.C., Clearwater, Clewiston, Sarasota, and Venice, Fla., Columbus, Ga., Johnson City and Kingsport, Tenn., La Crosse and Madison, Wis., Lancaster and Reading, Pa., Little Rock, Ark., Mariemont, Ohio, Niagara Falls, N.Y., Riverton, N.J., Roanoke, Va., Sacramento and San Diego, Calif., Boston, Mass., Spartanburg, S.C., Dubuque, Iowa; and other places. Includes correspondence from the Marchioness of Aberdeen, Thomas Adams, Captain S.B. Alexander, Philip R. Allen, Charles B. Ball, Edward M. Bassett, G. Frank Beer, George A. Bellamy, Russell Van Nest Black, Joshua L. Brooks, Helen E. Chase, Charles E. Cheney, Richard S. Childs, Herbert C. Chivers, Carlos Contreras, David Cushman Coyle, Jacob L. Crane, Jr., J. Benjamin Dimmick, Earle Sumner Draper, Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, Richard T. Ely, Robert E. Ely, F.F. Feidler, Edward A. Filene, Henry Ford, James Ford, Philip W. Foster, Kenneth E. Franzheim, George B. Gallup, Patrick Geddes, Edward Howard Griggs, Harry Highland, N.J. Hoggson, B.W. Huebsch, John Ihlder, Mrs. C.B. La Monte, J.E. Latham, Nelson P. Lewis, Arthur MacArthur, George H. Maxwell, Richard Meinig, John Nolen, Jr., Irving C. Root, Mrs. Robert M. Seymour, Clarence Stein, Raymond Unwin, Claude G. Varn, Hale J. Walker, Frank B. Williams, George Zug, American Institute of Architects, Babson Institute, Advisory Committee on Housing (Boston), Boston Metropolitan Planning Commission, Cleveland City Plan Commission, General Federation of Women's Clubs, Guggenheim Foundation, Massachusetts Dept. of Public Welfare, Massachusetts City League, Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards, New England Council, New England Regional Planning Commission, New York Regional Plan Association, Philadelphia Regional Planning Federation, Russell Sage Foundation, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Also, "The Nolen Family Album: A Record of Five Generations 1835-1954," family history, compiled by John Nolen, Jr. and Barbara Nolen Strong, 1980. Includes results of projects funded by John Nolen Research Fund, broadsides for Nolen exhibits and symposia, and other Nolen documentation.

ArchivalResource: 135.6 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63945058 View

John Nolen papers, 1890-1938, 1954-1960.

Title: John Nolen papers, 1890-1938, 1954-1960.

Collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, letterbooks, addresses, biographical data, diaries, scrapbooks, school notes and textbooks, syllabi, lectures and outlines, typescript papers and articles, printed material, policy directives, card files, sample contracts, projects files and reports, slides, photographs, negatives, plans, blueprints, drawings, charts, and maps relating to Nolen's work in city planning, preservation, survey projects, zoning, and extension programs. Includes records pertaining to Nolen's studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard; his work at the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching; consulting jobs; projects with the United States Housing Corporation, National Resources Committee, National Park Service, National Resources Planning Board, Federal Emergency Relief Administration of Public Works, Resettlement Administration, Department of the Interior, Division ofSubsistence Homesteads, and various city and state agencies; and housing, parks, streets, railways, and water systems in Bridgeport, Conn., Charlotte, N.C., Clearwater, Clewiston, Sarasota, and Venice, Fla., Columbus, Ga., Johnson City and Kingsport, Tenn., La Crosse and Madison, Wis., Lancaster and Reading, Pa., Little Rock, Ark., Mariemont, Ohio, Niagara Falls, N.Y., Riverton, N.J., Roanoke, Va., Sacramento and San Diego, Calif., Boston, Mass., Spartanburg, S.C., Dubuque, Iowa; and other places.

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Black, Russell Van Nest, 1893-1969. Russell Van Nest Black papers, 1919-1968.

Title: Russell Van Nest Black papers, 1919-1968.

Correspondence, reports, notes, questionnaires, articles, maps, contracts, pamphlets, brochures, ordinances, and legal notices related to city and state planning, primarily in the mid-Atlantic states. In addition to his private practice, papers deal with Black's membership in the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco; participation in the initial activities of the Regional Plan Association of San Francisco Bay Counties; and various other state and federal planning efforts in the 1930's. Correspondents include Frederick J. Adams, Thomas Adams, Charles Stern Ascher, Tracy Baldwin Augur, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Harland Bartholomew, Edward Murray Bassett, Alfred Bettman, Frederick Bigger, Walter Harold Blucher, Harold Sinley Buttenheim, Gilmore David Clarke, Arthur Coleman Comey, Jacob Leslie Crane, Jr., Frederick Dohram, Earle Sumner Draper, R.F. Engle, Livingston Farrand, Carl Feiss, Benjamin Antrim Haldeman, Justin Richardson Hartzog, Henry V. Hubbard, Harlean James, Harold MacLean Lewis, Thomas William Mackesey, Albert Mayer, Eugene Davis Montillon, Lewis Mumford, John Nolen, Robert Randall, Irving Root, Ladislas Segoe, Flavel Shurtleff, Clarence S. Stein, Armand Tibbitts, L. Deming Tilton, Raymond Unwin, Lawrence Veiller, Warren Jay Vinton, Samuel Price Wetherill, Jr., Gordon Whitnall, Robert M. Whitten, and Henry C. Wright.

ArchivalResource: 47 cubic ft.

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The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection, 1931-1993

Title: The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection 1931-1993

ArchivalResource: 178 metres

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Papers, 1897-1939.

Title: Papers, 1897-1939.

Correspondence and compositions of Irish dramatist,literary critic, and Socialist propagandist Bernard Shaw.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5linear ft.)

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Hartzog, Justin R. (Justin Richardson), 1892-1963. Justin R. Hartzog papers, 1917-1966.

Title: Justin R. Hartzog papers, 1917-1966.

Correspondence, reports, blueprints, whiteprints, maps, pamphlets, monographs, and newspaper clippings mainly concerning his association (1922-1937) with John Nolen, the city planner of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his own consulting practice in Cambridge and Fayetteville, Ohio, on projects at Dubuque, Iowa; Little Rock, Arkansas; Roanoke, Virginia; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Columbus, Georgia; Elizabethton, Tennessee; San Antonio, Texas; Milton, Massachusetts; and elsewhere; his chairmanship of the Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards and the Cambridge Planning Board; his state planning activities as consultant from the National Resources Planning Board for New Hampshire and Rhode Island, for the Maine State Planning Board, and the New England Regional Planning Commission; and his consulting work for agencies of the federal government, including the U.S. Housing Authority (1935-42), the Division of Defense Housing Coordination for the New England Region (1940-41), the Division of Urban Studies of the National Housing Agency (1942-44), and the Resettlement Administration for Greenhills, Ohio, where he was chief town planner (1935-37) and consultant after its sale by the government (1947-63). Also included are letters, reports, notes, and other papers concerning his studies at Cornell University; his active and reserve service with the U.S. Army (1917-41); lectures he gave at Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and Ohio State University; and his activities in professional organizations, in particular the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Landscape Architects. Also, briefs and depositions (1960-66) in the Greenhills Home Owners Corporation suit. The major correspondents are Jacob Crane Sr., John Nolen, Sr., and Bradford Williams; there are also occasional letters from Frederick Adams, Tracy B. Augur, Harland Bartholomew, Frederick Bigger, Arthur Comey, Earle S. Draper, Charles Eliot, Carl Feiss, Harold Lewis, Benton MacKaye, Howard K. Menhinick, Paul Oppermann, Ladislas Segoe, Clarence S. Stein, and Raymond Unwin.

ArchivalResource: 38.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64074392 View

Vinton, Warren Jay, 1889-1969. Warren Jay Vinton papers, 1932-1969.

Title: Warren Jay Vinton papers, 1932-1969.

Consists primarily of correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, minutes, reports, pamphlets, programs, newsletters, membership lists, reprints, speeches, press releases, broadsides, clippings, photographs, and copies of legislative hearings and bills documenting Vinton's active role in designing and implementing federal housing policies from 1935 to 1957. Most are administrative records produced during his tenure as Chief of Research in the Suburban Resettlement Division of the Resettlement Administration (1935-1937), Chief Economist and Planning Officer of the U.S. Housing Authority (1937-1949), and First Assistant Commissioner of the Public Housing Administration (1949-1957). Also included are records of the Central Housing Committee (1935-1942), on which Vinton represented the Resettlement Administration and later the U.S. Housing Authority, and of the Advisory Committee of the Bureau of the Census for the 1940 Federal Census of Housing. Papers concern many aspects of governmental activity in the public housing area, including low-income housing, defense housing, housing for the elderly, racial policy in public housing, and particularly the development and passage of housing legislation and congressional investigations of federal housing practices. In addition to Vinton's own work, the papers document the work and opinions of many other planners, architects, housing experts, economists, federal administrators, and politicians, including Charles Abrams, Tracy B. Auger, Edmund N. Bacon, Catherine Bauer, Russell Van Nest Black, John B. Blandford, Jr., Lawrence N. Bloomberg, Walter H. Blucher, Ernest J. Bohn, Harry F. Byrd, Henry S. Churchill, Jacob L. Crane, Frank R. Creedon, Frederick A. Delano, Henry Ellenbogen, Herbert Emmerich, Raymond M. Foley, Philip M. Glick, Sergei N. Grimm, Justin Hartzog, Benjamin H. Higgins, John Ihlder, Leon H. Keyserling, Philip M. Klutznick, David L. Krooth, J.S. Lansill, Albert Mayer, Bleecker Marquette, Joseph R. McCarthy, Lewis Mumford, Dillon S. Myer, Charles F. Palmer, Horace W. Peaslee, Elbert Peets, Hugh R. Pomeroy, Don K. Price, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James W. Routh, Boris B. Shiskin, Charles E. Slusser, Clarence S. Stein, Nathan Straus, Rexford G. Tugwell, Sir Raymond Unwin, Robert F. Wagner, Jesse R. Wolcott, Edith E. Wood, Elizabeth Wood, Coleman Woodbury, and Wilson W. Wyatt. Also included are documents related to the work of municipal housing authorities, including those of Syracuse and New York, N.Y., Winston-Salem, N.C., Chicago, Ill., Washington, D.C.; activities of professional organizations, including the National Association of Housing Officials, National Housing Conference, and the American Society of Planning Officials; and Vinton's consulting work.

ArchivalResource: 28 cubic ft.

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Carl Feiss papers, [ca.1928]-1991.

Title: Carl Feiss papers, [ca.1928]-1991.

Papers include family and business correspondence, reports, published material, speeches, financial records, minutes and studies, primarily concerning various consulting jobs (largely in the South). Also, material concerning Feiss' participation in various national and international commissions and committees, including the American Institute of Planners; the American Institute of Architects; the Union of International Architects; the Society of Architectural Historians; the National Trust for Historic Preservation; the Historic American Buildings Survey; and the International Council on Monuments and Sites; and his work for regional commissions such as the Tennessee Valley Authority; the Missouri Valley Authority; the Connecticut Development Commission; Historic Savannah Foundation; Historic Annapolis; the Central Florida Regional Planning Council: the Louisville, Kentucky Historic Homes Foundation; the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council; the Mid-Cumberland Council of Governments; and the Society for the Preservation of Landmarks in Western New York, Inc. Also, family and personal correspondence of Carl, Paul and Julian Feiss; correspondence of Sir Raymond Unwin; and microfilm of Feiss' papers, 1946-1952, from the now defunct School of Architecture, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado. Job files include material concerning Anheuser-Busch, Inc.'s Busch Gardens; Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council's Rookery Bay Project; Naples and Collier City; East Central Florida project; Vieux Carré, New Orleans; and the Rye-Oyster Bay Bridge Project. Also oral history interviews with Charles B. Hosmer, Jr. and Kermit C. Parsons.

ArchivalResource: 64.1 cubic ft.

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Hitchcock, Curtice, 1892-. Letters, 1924-1966, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letters, 1924-1966, to Lewis Mumford.

Three items of this correspondence, dated 1963-1966, are from Peggy Hitchcock, the wife of Curtice Hitchcock, concerning her father, Sir Raymond Unwin, architect.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (8 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155869532 View