Harold Reeve Sleeper papers, 1911-1960.

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Harold Reeve Sleeper papers, 1911-1960.

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Business and personal papers consisting mainly of correspondence, records, and files, including sketches and photographs dealing with architectural work and with professional associations and councils in which Sleeper was active, but also including personal correspondence, minutes, reports, and published material dealing with the American Institute of Architects (national, New York, and other chapters), Architectural League of New York, Downtown - Lower Manhattan Association, Inc., New York State Association of Architects, New York Building Congress, National Institute for Architectural Education, New York City Mayor's panel of architects, and other groups; correspondence, data, and publications related to the Presbyterian Church, including the Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue parishes; lecture notes and other papers relevant to lectures given at New York School of Interior Decoration, Columbia University, and Princeton University; drawings, blueprints, photographs, and financial and business records for architectural work completed, including churches, banks, schools, other public buildings, and private homes; research notes and/or published copies of books and articles by Sleeper or to which he contributed, including ARCHITECTURAL GRAPHIC STANDARDS (1932, 4th ed. 1951) and BUILDING PLANNING AND DESIGN STANDARDS (1955).

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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Harold Reeve, Sleeper 1893-1960.

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Sleeper, Harold Reeve, 1893-1960

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Architect. From the description of Harold Reeve Sleeper papers, 1911-1960. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074546 ...