Lee Lawrie letters to Will Owen Jones [manuscript], 1925 Mar, May, and July.

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Lee Lawrie letters to Will Owen Jones [manuscript], 1925 Mar, May, and July.

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Letter #1: 1925 Mar 3. Thanks Jones for asking "Doctor Condra to send me a copy of his 'Nebraska Beautiful.' Plans to send Jones an assortment of his photographs. Letter #2: 1925 Mar 5. Has "just received Doctor Condra's complimentary copy of his 'Nebraska Beautiful,'" and praises Jones' "article on the Capitol." Letter #3: 1925 May 4. Asks for "any advice, data, engravings, or old newspaper accounts" for the "panel for the series of the Development of the Law." Mr. Sheldon sent Lawrie "a list of names of members of the 1875 constitutional convention whose portraits might be used" in this panel. Letter #4: 1925 July 3. Lawrie sends " a copy of "The Nation,"which contains an article on Mr. Goodhue." He wonders "if you might like to re-print it if it impresses you as it does me." With the letter is a rotogravure photograph of Lawrie directing a stonecutter working on a "history of mankind in stone" for the Rockefeller Center."

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Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924

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According to Oliver, this house, which Goodhue designed for himself, was never built. In 1920 Goodhue enlarged a small house in Montecito. From the description of [Proposed house for the architect at Montecito, California] [graphic] : [perspective rendering set in evening landscape with figures] / B. G. G. ; figures by Donn Barber (under protest). 1919. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 80787120 At the time of this project the address of B.G....

Condra, Geo. E. (George Evert), 1869-1958

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Lawrie, Lee, 1877-1963

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Sculptor. Full name: Lee Oskar Lawrie. From the description of Lee Lawrie papers, 1908-1990 (bulk 1920-1963). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980144 German-born American sculptor specializing in architectural sculpture. Among his many works are the State Capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska, The Atlas at Rockefeller Center, New York and Harkness Memorial Tower at Yale. From the description of Lee Lawrie letters to Will Owen Jones [manuscript], 1925 Mar, May, and July. (...

Jones, Will Owen, 1862-1928,

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