Raymond Hood architectural records for two proposals: Tower City and City Under a Single Roof, 1927-1929.

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Raymond Hood architectural records for two proposals: Tower City and City Under a Single Roof, 1927-1929.

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The Raymond Hood Collection comprises one manuscript, eight drawings, and 22 photographs documenting two visionary designs, donated to the Architectural Archives by the widow of Hood's professional collaborator Jacques AndreĢ Fouilhoux. The most significant holdings in the collection are five original ink sketches signed and annotated by Hood illustrating his "Tower City" proposal of 1927. Three photomechanical enlargements of these sketches are preserved in the collection, two of which were rendered in ink and gouache by Hood and were among a selection of his drawings exhibited in the 1984 exhibition "Raymond Hood: City of Towers," presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Also very important is an extraordinary six page typescript account of the project written by Hamilton M. Wright, with extensive annotations in Hood's handwriting. Photography related to the "Tower City" proposal includes: 18 photoprints of graphics, a model (location of the original is unknown) and views of New York City. Hood's "City Under a Single Roof" proposal of 1929 is documented by four photoprints in the collection: one of an "atmospheric" perspective of a single tower attributed to Carl Landefeld and photographs of three models. The locations of the drawing and models are unknown. Photographers of materials in this collection include W.H. Kelham, Jr., Samuel H. Gottscho and Louis H. Dreyer.

Architectural drawings 8 items : various media.Photographs 22 photoprints.textual materials 1 folder.

University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives

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Kelham, W. H.,

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Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971

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Samuel Henry Gottscho was an architectural photographer also known for his photographs of flowers and gardens. With his son-in-law, William H. Schleisner, he established the firm of Gottscho-Schleisner in New York City. From the description of Quarry Farm, Greenwich, Connecticut : Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Walker Bagley, 1939. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122568234 Architectural photographer in New York City. Gottscho was also know...

Louis H. Dreyer

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Wright, Hamilton M. (Hamilton Mercer), 1875-1954

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Hood, Raymond M. (Raymond Mathewson), 1881-1934

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Architect; New York, N.Y. From the description of Raymond Mathewson Hood papers, 1903-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502667 A practicing architect, Hood was a partner in the New York City architectural firm Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouiloux and also in Howells & Hood. From the description of Raymond M. Hood architectural drawings and papers, circa 1890-1944. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720130 One o...

Landefeld, Carl,

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