Warren Jay Vinton papers, 1932-1969

United States. Public Housing Administration

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United States. Federal Housing Administration

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The Federal Housing Administration, also known as FHA, provides mortgage insurance on loans made by FHA-approved lenders throughout the United States and its territories. FHA insures mortgages on single family homes, multifamily properties, residential care facilities, and hospitals. It is one of the largest insurers of mortgages in the world, insuring more than 46 million mortgages since its inception in 1934....

Wood, Edith Elmer, 1871-1945

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Active in public housing in the United States. From the description of Edith Elmer Wood papers, circa 1900-1943. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720066 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Edith Elmer Wood, born in Portmouth, New Hampshire, on September 24, 1871, was the daughter of U.S. Navy Commander Horace and Adele (Wiley) Elmer. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Smith College in 1890 and was awarded the M.A. degree and the Ph.D. fro...

Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1877-1953

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Alumnus of City College, Class of 1898. From the description of Papers, 1926-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155504196 ...

Routh, James W. (James Wynbourne), 1885-

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Price, Don Krasher

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Unknown. From the guide to the Comparative study of British and American administrative officials by Don Krasher Price, 1935, (The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House) ...

American institute of planners

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Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990

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American writer. From the description of Correspondence with Alfred S. Dashiell, 1931-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51846130 Carl Zigrosser and Lewis Mumford were life-long friends with shared interests in the arts, society and politics. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1925-1971, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155902319 Sir Patrick Geddes was a Scottish biologist, sociologi...

Lansill, J. S.

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Washington Housing Association

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The Washington Housing Association was a civic group dedicated to promoting slum clearance and low-income housing in Washington, D.C. From the description of Records, 1935-1947. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70962764 The Washington Housing Association (WHA) was originally organized in 1933 as the Washington Committee on Housing to improve housing for low-income residents. WHA sponsored the Alley Dwelling Elimination Act of July 1934. Mrs. Charlo...

Woodbury, Coleman

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Wolcott, Jesse R.

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Krooth, David L.

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Bohn, Ernest J.

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Bacon, Edmund N.

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Edmund Norwood Bacon was born May 2, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Cornell University in 1932 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree and worked as an architectural designer in Shanghai, China under Henry Killam Murphy in 1934. In 1935 he returned to Philadelphia to work with W. Pope Barney. He attended Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1936, and worked in Michigan 1937-1939 as Superintendent of City Planning for the city of Flint. From 1940 to 1943...

Straus, Nathan, 1889-1961

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Businessman, publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of Nathan Straus : oral history, 1950. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309735071 Businessman. Straus served three terms in the New York State Senate, conducted a survey of public housing in Europe for Mayor La Guardia, and served as Administrator of the United States Housing Authority under President Roosevelt. From the description of Papers, ...

Blandford, John

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Delano, Frederic Adrian, 1863-1953

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Army officer and railroad officer. From the description of Frederic Adrian Delano papers, 1917-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982936 Frederic Adrian Delano (1863-1953), uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was born in Hong Kong, China. His father, Warren Delano, II, was at that time a partner in the shipping firm of Russell and Company based in that city. A few years later the Delano family returned to Algonac, the family home near Newburgh, New York, and Delano spent muc...

American Association for Social Security

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Founded in 1927 by Abraham Epstein, the American Association for Social Security (formerly the American Association for Old Age Security) was dedicated to securing state and federal legislation to ensure adequate old age pensions, as well as unemployment and health insurance for American workers. From the description of Series 2. Subject files, 1920-1944. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63890949 From the description of American Association for Social Securi...

Unwin, Raymond, Sir, 1863-1940

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Blucher, Walter H. (Walter Harold), 1901-

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Walter H. Blucher was associated with the Detroit City Plan Commission, 1919-1934. He was Executive Director of the American Society of Planning Officials, 1934-1953, and of the Association of State Planning and Development Agencies, 1946-1953. Also, he was a member of the International Federation for Housing and Town Planning, the American Institute of Planners, Alpha Theta Kappa, and the Michigan Bar Association. Member, International Fraternity of Lambda Alpha, Ely Chapter. From t...

Hartzog, Justin R. (Justin Richardson), 1892-1963

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City planner. Justin R. Hartzog graduated from Cornell University in 1917, and in 1922 received a Masters Degree in Landscape Design from Cornell. From the description of Justin R. Hartzog papers, 1917-1966. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074392 ...

Myer, Dillon S. (Dillon Seymour), 1891-1982

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Government official. From the description of Papers, 1934-1966. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70959665 ...

Creedon, Frank R.

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Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966

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Theodore Roosevelt Dalton was born 3 July 1901 in Carroll County, Virginia, the son of Currell and Lodoska Maritn Dalton. he received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary as well as his law degree. Dalton was Commonwealth's Attorney for Radford, Virginia and state senator from 1944-1960. He was the Republican Party candidate for governor in 1953 and 1957. Dalton was appointed federal judge for the Western District of Virginia. His adopted son was John N. Dalton who served as governor of...

National Association of Housing Officials (U.S.)

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National Housing Conference.

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Pomeroy, Hugh R. (Hugh Reynolds), 1899-1961

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City planner. Hugh Pomeroy (1899-1961) served as Executive Director, American Society of Planning Officials, director of the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission, and director of the Westchester County Department of Planning and was a member of the International Fraternity of Lambda Alpha. From the description of Hugh R. Pomeroy papers, 1926-1970. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64072440 ...

Emmerick, Herbert.

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Wood, Elizabeth

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Epithet: of Add MS 41803 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000439.0x0000ab Epithet: of Hartfield, county Sussex British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000439.0x0000ac ...

Churchill, Henry S. (Henry Stern)

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Henry S. Churchill was an architect and city planner. From the guide to the Henry S. Churchill papers, 1929-1962, (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) Architect, city planner. From the description of Henry S. Churchill papers, 1929-1962. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074386 ...

Ihlder, John, 1876-1958

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Housing expert. Ihlder held government positions in the Commerce Dept., 1920-1928; the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1928-1934; the Alley Dwelling Authority, 1934-1943; and its successor the National Capital Housing Authority, 1943-1952. From the description of Papers, 1894-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155523462 Housing expert. Ihlder held government positions in the Commerce Dept., 1920-1928; the Nat...

United States. Bureau of the Census

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In 1860, the portion of Colorado east of the Continental Divide was divided into Nebraska Territory north of the 40th parallel (Baseline Road) and Kansas Territory south of this line. From the description of Nebraska Territory population schedule microfilm, 1860. (Boulder Public Library). WorldCat record id: 427348036 From the description of Nebraska Territory mortality census and agricultural schedule microfilm, 1860. (Boulder Public Library). WorldCat record id: 427348041 ...

Marquette, Bleecker.

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Klutznick, Philip M.

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Philip Morris Klutznick was born on July 9, 1907, in Kansas City, Missouri. His parents, Morris and Minnie, had emigrated from Poland two years earlier. Klutznick graduated from Manual High School in Kansas City in 1924. He attended Kansas University in Lawrence and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln before moving to Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska in 1926. He received a J.D. from Creighton Law School in 1930. In 1924, Klutznick participated in the...

Foley, Raymond M.

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Tugwell, Rexford G. (Rexford Guy), 1891-1979

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Economist. From the description of Reminiscences of Rexford Guy Tugwell: oral history, 1950. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527904 From 1934 to 1937 Tugwell was under secretary of agriculture. From the description of Rexford Guy Tugwell [sound recording] : an oral history / interviewed by Charles O. Jackson, June 7, 1968. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 49322584 Rexford G. Tugwell (1891-1979) was...

Stein, Clarence S.

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Architect, city planner (lived 1882-1975). Clarence S. Stein began his career as an architect, but turned his attention to planning by the early 1920s. From 1923 to 1926 he was chairman of the New York State Housing and Regional Planning Commission and was among the founders of the Regional Plan Association in 1923. With his partner Henry Wright, he was a leading proponent of the "garden city" concept of planning. He designed or participated in the design of Sunnyside Ga...

Shiskin, Boris B.

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Peaslee, Horace W.

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Grimm, Sergei N.

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United States. Federal Public Housing Authority

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Bauer, Catherine, 1905-

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Augur, Tracy Baldwin, 1896-1974.

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City planner. Tracy B. Augur (Cornell University Class of 1917) was the principal planner for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from 1933-1948. He also worked for the Urban Renewal Administration and the Housing and Home Finance Agency. From the description of Tracy Baldwin Augur papers, 1921-1960, 1931-1946 (bulk). (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64071639 ...

Slusser, Charles E.

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American society of planning officials

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The American Society of Planning Officials (ASPO) was founded in 1934. It was a national private organization whose members engaged in city, country, and regional planning. The state organizations had as its members official state agencies. ASPO served as a clearinghouse of planning information for its members throughout the U.S. and abroad. In 1978, ASPO merged with the American Institute of Planners to become the American Planning Association. From the description of Records, 1945-...

Wyatt, Wilson W.

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Vinton, Warren Jay, 1889-1969.

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Planner. Warren J. Vinton received his A.B. from the University of Michigan in 1911. At age 21 he became secretary and director of the Vinton Company, then the largest general building contractors in Detroit. During World War I he served as an assistant attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. In 1928 he went to New York and worked for the American Association for Social Security, which did the groundwork for the eventual adoption of social security legislation. He also di...

Black, Russell Van Nest, 1893-1969

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Planner, landscape architect, civil engineer, author, teacher. Russell Van Nest Black graduated from Cornell University in 1916, and later served as director of Bay Counties (San Francisco) Regional Plan, 1923; director of plans and surveys, Philadelphia Regional Plan, 1925-1929; vice president and president of the American Institute of Planners, 1933-1937; consultant to the New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia state planning boards; and consultant director to the New Jer...

Abrams, Charles, 1902-1970

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Housing expert. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles Abrams : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608239 Lawyer, urban housing planner, professor of city planning. Charles Abrams studied at Brooklyn Law School, and was a landlord in Greenwich Village. He became an authority on urban housing, and served as a consultant on various private, state, federal, and international housing projec...

McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957

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Higgins, Benjamin Howard, 1912-....

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Mayer, Albert

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Albert Mayer (1897-1981), an architect and city planner, co-founded the New York City firm of Mayer and Whittlesey (later Mayer, Whittlesey and Glass) in 1935. Mayer attended Columbia University, but graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in civil engineering in 1919. After spending several years as an engineer, he switched to architecture when he became more interested in the social aspects of design. An advocate of large-scale planned housing projects, he believ...

Peets, Elbert, 1886-1968

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Landscape architect, city planner. Elbert Peets received his B.A. from Western Reserve University and his M.L.A. from the Harvard University School of Landscape Architecture and City Planning. He worked for Pray, Hubbard and White, Boston landscape architects, for a year before joining with Werner Hegemann to plan Kohler, a company town founded by Walter S. Kohler, near Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Peets and Hegemann also collaborated in the planning of Washington Highlands, a ...

Keyserling, Leon Hirsch

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Leon Keyserling was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1908. He grew up on the coastal island of St. Helena (SC) and later moved to Beaufort. Keyserling graduated from Beaufort High School at age 16 and attended Columbia University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving a degree from Harvard Law School, he taught economics at Columbia University and conducted research for the Rockefeller Foundation. At age twenty five, Keyserling was appointed Senator Robert F. Wagn...

Bloomberg, Lawrence N.

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Crane, Jacob L. (Jacob Leslie), 1892-1988

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Jacob Leslie Crane, Jr., also known as Jacob L. Crane, was born on September 14, 1892 in Benzonia, Michigan. During his career as an engineer, Jacob L. Crane was the planning consultant for the Great Salt Lake Diking Project in Utah. In 1933, he prepared a report for the Research Corporation in New York, New York to determine the feasibility of the project. Later in life, Jacob L. Crane wrote Urban Planning-Illusion and Reality: A New Philosophy for Planned City Building, published in 1973. On t...

Palmer, Charles F. (Charles Forrest), 1892-1973

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Charles F. Palmer (1892-1973), housing developer, of Atlanta, Ga. From the description of Charles F. Palmer papers, 1903-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863339 Epithet: Secretary to the W India merchants British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001092.0x0002e3 Palmer was Special Assistant to President Roosevelt on Housing Affairs from January to August 1943. From the description ...

Vinton & Company

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United States. Resettlement Administration

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Glick, Philip M. (Philip Milton), 1905-

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