Edgar A. Josselyn papers, circa 1889.

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Edgar A. Josselyn papers, circa 1889.

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This collection includes a menu card with signatures of many of the members of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects and three photographs depicting students in an atelier in Paris associated with the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. The menu card, dated in Josselyn's hand "Feb. 22, 1889", is from a dinner at the Cafe d'Orsay in Paris, during which preliminary discussions about forming the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects were held. On the verso of the card are the signatures of Thornton Floyd Turner, Austin W. Lord, Louis de Sibourg, T. R. Plummer, William A. Boring, Whitney Warren, Stephen Bonsal, Jr., S. B. P. Trowbridge, Ernest Flagg, John P. Benson, Evans Preston, Juan Guillermo de Lavalle, A. L. Brockway, Joseph H. McGuire, John W. Bemis, Edward L. Tilton, George Cary, and J. Donaldson, Jr. Mr. Josselyn's name also appears on the card, although not in his handwriting. According to correspondence from John Benson held in the Phillips Library in Salem, Massachusetts, the three photographs, taken by Benson, depict the students and instructor of a watercolor class in Paris in early 1889. In the first photograph, Josselyn has identified on the verso the sitters as follows: de Sibourg, McGuire, Josselyn, Lord, Flagg, Brockway, Cary, de Lavalle, Leteurtre, and Saglio. The second and third photographs depict the same men in the same atelier, although they appear to have been taken on a different day than the first image.

1 holograph card and 3 albumen photographic prints.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7172301

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France)

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Warren, Whitney, 1864-1943

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Whitney Warren was a New York architect. He studied in Paris at the Atliers of the Ecole des Beaux Arts and returned to NYC in 1896 to found the firm Warren & Wetmore. Two of the firm's major works were the Grand Central Terminal and the Biltmore Hotel, both in New York City. Warren was also a co-founder of the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and served as director for many years. From the description of Whitney Warren papers, 1864-1943. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 6...

Flagg, Ernest, 1857-1947

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McGuire, Joseph Hubert

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Cary, George A.

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Trowbridge, Samuel Beck Parkman, 1862-1925.

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Josselyn, Edgar Alonzo, 1861-1943.

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Edgar Alonzo Josselyn was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1861. He was the fourth recipient of the Rotch Travelling Scholarship and studied in Europe from June 1887 to September 1889. He was admitted to the atelier of Jean-Louis Pascal in Paris in July 1887 and passed the entrance examinations for the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in March of 1888. After his return to the United States, Josselyn was a founding member of the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects, an important early gr...

Bonsal, Stephen, 1865-1951

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Journalist and foreign correspondent. From the description of Papers of Stephen Bonsal, 1890-1973 (bulk 1900-1947). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79448894 Biographical Note 1865, Mar. 29 Born, Baltimore, Md. circa 1878 1882 Student, St. Paul...

Boring, William A. (William Alciphron), 1859-1937

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Architect. Boring was Director, 1920-1930, and Dean, 1931-1933, of the School of Architecture at Columbia University. He is best known for designing the Immigration Station at Ellis Island, New York, in 1899 while in partnership with Edward L. Tilton. From the description of William A. Boring architectural drawings and papers, circa 1859-1937. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 505720023 ...

Lord, Austin W.

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Brockway, Albert Leverett, 1864-

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Tilton, Edward Lippincot, 1861-1933.

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Benson, John Prentiss, 1865-1947

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