Trans World Airlines Unit Terminal Building, New York International Airport, architectural drawings, 1958-1961.

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Trans World Airlines Unit Terminal Building, New York International Airport, architectural drawings, 1958-1961.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299029599

Collection consists of 51 reprographic architectural working drawings for the TWA Terminal A at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, N.Y., drawn between 1958 and 1961. All sheets are diazo print on paper, with a very few bearing graphite and/or colored pencil annotations. Earlier drawings note Eero Saarinen as the architect of record; later drawings note Eero Saarinen and Associates.

51 sheets.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 7279635

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

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