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Photographs Collected by Henry Hobson Richardson, 1870-1885 (inclusive): An Inventory.

Title: Photographs Collected by Henry Hobson Richardson, 1870-1885 (inclusive): An Inventory.

The photographs which comprise this collection were assembled by Henry Hobson Richardson and include photographs of sites, structures and works of art in Europe, the United States and Asia. The photographs were arranged thematically by Richardson under a variety of rubrics and include building types, components, materials and geographical location. Although the bulk of the photographs were acquired in the 1870s and 1880s, some are of earlier vintages. Photographers represented include Felton, Baldus, Jackson, as well as a number of established specialty studios (i.e., Fratelli Alinari).

ArchivalResource: 53 volumes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/des00012/catalog View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01543/catalog View

Hitchcock, Henry Russell, 1903-1987. Henry-Russell Hitchcock papers, circa 1500-1970, (bulk circa 1800-1970).

Title: Henry-Russell Hitchcock papers, circa 1500-1970, (bulk circa 1800-1970).

Architectural drawings, specifications, manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, ephemera, collected by Hitchcock, and relating to the work of architects Henry Hobson Richardson and Frank Lloyd Wright, including a letter, 1940, from Wright to Hitchcock suggesting the writing of IN THE NATURE OF MATERIALS; the architectural firm Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge; furniture designer Charles Rennie Macintosh; and miscellaneous and unidentified architects dating from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, with the bulk dating from the nineteenth century.

ArchivalResource: approx. 1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/505720127 View

Righter, James V. (James Volney). Illustrated journal/sketchbook, 1974 March 18-1976 Jan. 23.

Title: Illustrated journal/sketchbook, 1974 March 18-1976 Jan. 23.

Notes on, observations, or sketches of the following subjects and places: Cuernavaca, Tepotzotlán, Xochicalco, Taxco de Alarcón (Mexico); Olana; Nantucket; architects Victor Legorreta, Charles Bulfinch, R.A. Cram, Robert Venturi, H.H. Richardson; in East Hampton with Robert A.M. Stern (1974 Nov.); Columbia U. conference on non-professional education in architecture (1975 Jan.); Peter Eisenman; Mark Twain House; Vincent Scully; Brooklyn Heights; Bill Trumbull, MIT; John Hejduk at Columbia; Hyannis Port (1975 July); Naushon Is.; Edgartown; Ecole des Beaux Arts exhibit and lecture, MOMA (1975 Nov.); Rockefeller Center; New Haven Roundhouse.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/455882219 View

Cooper, Frank Irving, 1867-1933. [Photographs from the studio of H.H. Richardson and Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge] [graphic].

Title: [Photographs from the studio of H.H. Richardson and Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge] [graphic]. [1880-1900]

A collection of architectural photographs from the office of H.H. Richardson and his successor firm, Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. Eight-one of the photographs document the work of the two studios; sixteen of the photographs are of European buildings and architectural details that were used for study or inspirational purposes. The portfolio includes two group portraits of Richardson's assistants in his studio.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio (97 photographic prints) ; 46 x 56 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316065102 View

Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886. Drawings and papers, ca. 1866-ca. 1940 (inclusive).

Title: Drawings and papers, ca. 1866-ca. 1940 (inclusive).

Contains over 5,000 architectural drawings by Richardson and members of his staff, as well as work of his successor firms. The drawings, most on tracing paper, include plans, elevations, sections, exterior and interior details of various Richardson buildings. Collection also includes photographs, lithographs, and other reproductions. Addenda contain some correspondence, notes, and a sketchbook of Richardson; articles and printed material about him; and more drawings and photographs.

ArchivalResource: Over 5,000 drawings and 2 boxes of other material.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17266313 View

Higginson, Henry Lee, 1834-1919. Business records, 1799-1919 (bulk: 1870-1919)

Title: Henry Lee Higginson business records, 1799-1919 (inclusive), 1870-1919 (bulk)

Correspondence and other papers relating to Higginson's investments, philanthropic interests and political interests. Investments in which Mr. Higginson was interested, and for which there are records, include: Ecuador Coal Company, Gage Company, Ecuador Trading Company, Cherry River Land Association, Reynolds Chocolate Company, New Metals Process Associates, Jones Step Process Trust, John T. Jones Holding Company, Burn-Boston Battery, Submarine Signal Company, Standard Lessee Corporation, Standard Alcohol Company, St. Louis Cable and Western Railway Company, and St. Louis and Suburban Railway Company. Higginson's interests in Harvard, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Carnegie Institute, and in properties such as Sheldon Farm and Split Rock Forest are also represented. Business correspondents include Alexander Agassiz, Charles Fairchild, John M. Forbes, Henry Lee, Charles E. Perkins, Samuel G. Ward, and Charles W. Wetmore; political correspondents include Henry Cabot Lodge, James M. Curley, John F. Fitzgerald, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft. A ledger and journal, 1856-1865, of James J. Higginson; an account book, 1799, of Salisbury and Higginson; and various estate papers and family correspondence are also in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear ft. (30 v., 49 boxes, 23 cases)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/bak01102/catalog View

Sloan, Percy H. (Percy Haydn), b. 1867. Percy H. Sloan photographs [graphic], 1890-1930.

Title: Percy H. Sloan photographs [graphic], 1890-1930.

Photographs of the Chicagoland area, taken between 1890 and 1930. Subjects include aerial views of Chicago and nearby suburbs, church architecture, commercial architecture, domestic architecture, and public buildings, such as schools, libraries, and post offices. Photos of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, H.H. Richardson, and Louis Sullivan are included in the collection, as are photographs of some structures built for the World's Columbian Exposition. Most photographs are annotated with the name and address of the structure or, in the case of the aerial views, with the date and the subject of the photograph.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45482382 View

Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

Historic American buildings survey forms, 1964 Nov. 9-1965 Mar. 31.

Title: Historic American buildings survey forms, 1964 Nov. 9-1965 Mar. 31.

Survey forms for twelve historic Buffalo buildings, prepared by Historical Society staff and volunteers; includes research notes.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33311547 View

Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886. Henry Hobson Richardson photographs of architectural projects, 1870-1974.

Title: Henry Hobson Richardson photographs of architectural projects, 1870-1974.

Interior and exterior photographs of architectural projects of American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Includes photographs of architectural drawings, some from published source, and of buildings soon after their completion. Some photographs are of Richardson, his friends, and clients. Includes original photographs and collotypes reproducing drawings and early photographs, many with manuscript inscriptions.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612844147 View

Henry Hobson Richardson drawings, ca. 1886- ca. 1940.

Title: Henry Hobson Richardson drawings, ca. 1886- ca. 1940.

Architectural drawings from American architect H. H. (Henry Hobson) Richardson's Brookline office, and later drawings made by the successor firm.

ArchivalResource: 5,300 drawings (757 linear ft. )

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00434/catalog View

Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886. Photographs collected by Henry Hobson Richardson [microform].

Title: Photographs collected by Henry Hobson Richardson [microform]. [1870?]-1885.

Consists of titled scrapbooks containing photographs, mostly of architectural subjects.

ArchivalResource: 45 scrapbooks : ill. ; 34-70 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13523077 View

Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886. Henry Hobson Richardson additional drawings and papers, 1858-1886.

Title: Henry Hobson Richardson additional drawings and papers, 1858-1886.

Miscellaneous drawings and correspondence by and relating to H. H. Richardson; Richardson's sketchbook; photographs of architectural drawings (some now lost) and built works by Richardson; study photographs of other buildings.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1.6 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612807015 View

Haven, Franklin, 1804-1893. Papers, 1751-1889.

Title: Papers, 1751-1889.

Papers of Franklin Haven include bills and receipts, and letters to Haven from painter George P.A. Healy about his portrait of Daniel Webster. A letter from Healy to Webster is also included. A letter from H.H. Richardson urges the hiring of French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi for work on the tower of the new Brattle Street (Fourth) Church in Boston (1871). The collection also contains bills and receipts and scattered correspondence of William Ballard of Framingham, Mass.

ArchivalResource: 1 case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18160459 View

Richardson Stones-Burnett Woods Collection, 1911-1972

Title: Richardson Stones-Burnett Woods Collection 1911-1972

This collection contains photographs, correspondence, documents and slides relating to the Richardson Stones and Operation Resurrection. The photographs included in the collection range from images of the original building, promotional efforts for Operation Resurrection and images of the finished monument. Correspondence includes letters between various individuals involved in Operation Resurrection pertaining to construction of the monument and the discovery of the stones in Indiana. Also included in the collection are various documents relating to Operation Resurrection and the original building and 1911 fire.

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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OhCiUAR0312 View

Willson, Edmund R., 1856-1906. Photographs of American architecture, 1886-1899 (inclusive).

Title: Photographs of American architecture, 1886-1899 (inclusive).

Consists of 11 scrapbooks containing approximately 500 photographs of interior and exterior views of houses and public buildings, mostly in northeastern United States (Mass., N.H., R.I., Conn., N.Y. and Pa.). Many of the views are unidentified, though one volume consists primarily of the work of Henry H. Richardson. Six of the volumes contain the signature of Edmund R. Willson and are dated 1898 and 1899. An additional three scrapbooks of photographs of French architecture are signed and dated Sept. and Oct. 1886.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4 linear ft. (14 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/188580829 View

Charles H. Rutan papers

Title: Charles H. Rutan papers

24 letters received, including 4 from Henry Hobson Richardson, 2 from Charles F. McKim, 1 each from Stanford White and William Rutherford Mead, others from C.W. Norcross and Charles D. Gambrill. 50 additional items include biographical information about Rutan, photographs and illustrations of architecture (many annotated by Henry-Russell Hitchcock), a list of buildings Rutan worked on, and miscellany.

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9ba2de710-6f77-4ae6-bb86-725ea85b7a12 View

Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886. All Saints' Cathedral, Albany (N.Y.) [graphic].

Title: All Saints' Cathedral, Albany (N.Y.) [graphic]. [undated]

ArchivalResource: 3 prints : heliotype on paper ; 71.0 x 71.0 cm. (28 x 28 in.) or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84195142 View

Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886. Architectural drawings of the Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1880-1882.

Title: Architectural drawings of the Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1880-1882. 1999.

Contains 12 drawings by architect H. H. Richardson of the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Mass. and a copy of the finding aid for the original papers of H. H. Richardson held by Harvard University's Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: [18] leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69415552 View

H. H. (Henry Hobson) Richardson papers

Title: H. H. (Henry Hobson) Richardson papers

Correspondence, photographs, printed material, drawings, biographical material, record books, and business records.

ArchivalResource:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9985f7151-9d59-4767-8319-82f30364fda8 View

Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838. Bowditch Family Papers, 1712-1927.

Title: Bowditch Family Papers, 1712-1927.

This collection of correspondence, business papers, pamphlets, family history, and photographs spans nine generations.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes, 12 volumes (12 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/607096821 View

Henry Hobson Richardson additional drawings and papers, 1858-1886.

Title: Henry Hobson Richardson additional drawings and papers, 1858-1886.

Drawings, correspondence, and photographs by and relating to the American architect H. H. Richardson.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1.6 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01671/catalog View

Adams, Marian, 1843-1885,. Marian Hooper Adams photographs, ca. 1846-1885.

Title: Marian Hooper Adams photographs, ca. 1846-1885.

Three albums contain photographs taken by Marian Hooper Adams from 1883-1885. These images include formal and informal portraits of U.S. politicians, various members of the Adams and Hooper families, and family friends. Family members represented include her husband, Henry Adams, Abigail Brooks Adams, Brooks Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886), Charles F. Adams (1835-1915), Charles F. Adams (1866-1954), George C. Adams, Mary Adams, Mary Ogden Adams, and Robert W. Hooper. Also represented in the portraits are George Bancroft, Rebecca Dodge, William Maxwell Evarts, John Hay, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), John La Farge, Thoedore Lyman, Francis Parkman, H.H. Richardson, and Helen Hay Whitney. The albums also include photographs of Washington, D.C., Bladensburg, Md., Old Sweet Springs, Va., and the Adams family homes in Quincy and Beverly Farms, Mass. Two boxes also contain portaits taken by others of Marian Hooper Adams as a young girl and an adult; loose duplicate photographs of the images in the albums; and slides and modern copy negatives of the duplicates. The collection includes one daguerreotype, tintypes, glass-plate negatives, and paper-based photographs.

ArchivalResource: 138 photographs in 2 boxes (1 narrow) and 3 v. in cases.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50009108 View

Crane, Albert, 1842-. Correspondence, 1891-1907.

Title: Correspondence, 1891-1907.

Letters to Albert Crane from Charles F. Adams about the Thomas Crane Memorial Hall in Quincy, Mass., designed by H.H. Richardson; about the Adams family genealogy; and about portraits by Frank Millet and John Singer Sargent. Also, letters from Frederick W. Hamilton and Arthur E. Mason concerning gifts to the Crane Theological School (Tufts University), and one from Frederick E. Wadhams inviting Crane to join the American Bar Association.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder and 1 folder of photocopies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18022655 View

Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912. Architects' and designers' papers, 1767-2003.

Title: Architects' and designers' papers, 1767-2003.

The collection includes individual letters, small groups of correspondence, published articles, and other papers by architects and designers or about architecture. Although the range is broad, the bulk of the collection consists of correspondence to and from Chicago architects around the turn of the twentieth century, and to well-known architects in other cities at that time. Daniel H. Burnham and William Le Baron Jenney have the largest amount of correspondence in the collection, while others, such as Thomas Chippendale, Inigo Jones, and Christopher Wren, are represented by single items.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (3.5 linear feet), 1 portfolio, 2 oversize portfolios, and flatfile materials.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83992760 View

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, 1777-1952, (bulk 1838-1903)

Title: Frederick Law Olmsted Papers 1777-1952 (bulk 1838-1903)

Landscape architect. Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, drafts of articles and books, speeches and lectures, biographical and genealogical data, business papers, scrapbooks, maps, drawings, and other papers encompassing Olmsted's career and private life. The papers focus on Olmsted's career as a landscape architect, specifically as a designer of parks and the grounds of private estates and public buildings and as a city and regional planner.

ArchivalResource: 24,000 items; 73 containers plus 1 oversize; 23 linear feet; 60 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001019 View

White, Stanford, 1853-1906. Albums of correspondence from Stanford White to his family, 1872-1905.

Title: Albums of correspondence from Stanford White to his family, 1872-1905.

Volumes titled: "Letters from Stanford White, 1883, Wedding Tour, 1884, 1905"; "S.W. Mexican Letters, 1882"; "Early Letters of Stanford White, Illustrated with his original sketches"; and "Stanford White's Letters from Europe, 1878." Letters are primarily to White's mother, Alexina Black Mease White, his father, Richard Grant White, and his wife, Bessie Springs Smith White. The volume of White's letters from Mexico documents an extended trip he took with his elder brother, Richard Mansfield White, to prospect. Also included in the last volume is a letter to White from H. H. Richardson, dated February 22 1878, acknowledging White's resignation from Richardson's firm. Each original manuscript letter is followed by a typed transcription by Lawrence White, unless otherwise noted.

ArchivalResource: 4 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299031367 View

Gardner, John Lowell, 1837-1898. John Lowell Gardner letterpress book, 1870-1878.

Title: John Lowell Gardner letterpress book, 1870-1878.

Letterpress book containing outgoing letters of Boston, Mass. businessman John Lowell Gardner, 1870-78, discussing construction work on the Church in Brattle Square (Boston, Mass.) with architects H.H. Richardson and C.D. Gambrill; deeds for various properties; and other business matters. Also includes a few loose pages of accounts and letters from a separate letterpress book, 1863-64.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46467262 View

Johnston, Clarence H. (Clarence Howard), 1859-1936. Clarence H. Johnston papers, 1878-1898.

Title: Clarence H. Johnston papers, 1878-1898.

Twenty-nine letters (1878-1882) from Cass Gilbert to St. Paul (Minn.) architect Johnston discuss Gilbert's student life at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston (1879), his work in New York with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1879), his study of architecture in England and France (1881), his work with the Baltimore (Maryland) architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White (1882), and his views on other architects and styles.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft. (5 folders and 1 v. in box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313820640 View

Ames family. Ames family papers, 1782-1927.

Title: Ames family papers, 1782-1927.

Collection includes papers of Fisher Ames (1758-1808), a Federalist statesman who served in Congress, correspondence of Margaret Bradford-Ames, and papers of Pelham Warren Ames (San Francisco and Boston).

ArchivalResource: .5 linear foot.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122546283 View

Hitchcock, Henry Russell, 1903-1987. The architectural library of H. H. Richardson.

Title: The architectural library of H. H. Richardson. [1936?]

ArchivalResource: 9 l. 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/506208507 View

Henry Hobson Richardson photographs of architectural projects, 1870-1974.

Title: Henry Hobson Richardson photographs of architectural projects, 1870-1974.

Photographs of architectural projects of American architect Henry Hobson Richardson.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01926/catalog View

Wheelwright, John, 1897-1940. Papers, 1920-1940, Part III (Lowell-Z).

Title: Papers, 1920-1940, Part III (Lowell-Z).

Letters, writings, notes, etc. generated by correspondents and authors "Lowell, Amy" to "Young, Kathleen Tankersley".