Douglas Putnam Haskell papers, Series II: Personal correspondence, 1922-1979 (bulk 1940-1970).

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Fisher, Howard T. (Howard Taylor), 1903-1979

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Howard T. Fisher (1903–1979) was an architect, city planner, and educator. Howard Taylor Fisher was born October 30, 1903, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents were Walter Lowrie Fisher and Mabel Taylor. He graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, in 1926. He attended the School of Architecture, Harvard University, from 1926 to 1928. Fisher started his career as an architect in 1931 with a solo practice in Chicago, which continued until 1943. In 1932, he founde...

Huxtable, Ada Louise, 1921-2013

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Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public’s awareness of the urban environment. In 1970 she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner (1984) for architectural criticism, said in 1996: "Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a p...

Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983

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Architect, inventor, scientist, teacher, philosopher, creator of the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion car. From the description of Letter, 1958 Feb. 10, Clemson, S.C. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 33018576 Mark Burginer is a California-based architect, whose interest in Buckminster Fuller's synergetic geometry led to some correspondence between them during the early 1980s. From the description of Letters to Mark Burginger, 1980-1981. (Unknown)...

Oberlin Collegiate Institute

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Van Pelt, John Robert.

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Kocher, A. Lawrence (Alfred Lawrence)

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A. Lawrence Kocher was an architect, editor, teacher, and authority on colonial architecture and history. From the description of Papers, 1921-1973. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 25060025 ...

Hamlin, Talbot, 1889-1956

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Talbot Faulkner Hamlin was born on June 16, 1889 in New York City. He was the second of the four children of Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin (1855-1926), professor of architecture at Columbia University, and Minnie Florence Marston Hamlin (1859-?). Hamlin's formal education began in the Trinity School in New York in 1898. His parents transferred him to the Horace Mann School in New York in 1900, from which he graduated in 1906. Hamlin went on to Amherst College and received his Bachelor...

Barth, Max, 1896-1970

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Biographical note: German emigre writer and journalist. Barth was born in Waldkirch in Breisgau, Germany, and immigrated to the United States in 1950 after periods of residence (1933-1950) in Switzerland, France, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Norway, and Sweden. From the description of Max Barth papers, 1916-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86132111 ...

Field, Hermann H., 1910-....

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Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933

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Austrian architect, theorist and critic. From the description of Papers, 1930-1933. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81089119 ...

Avery, R. Stanton, 1907-

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Owings, Nathaniel Alexander, 1903-

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Architect and engineer; died 1984. From the description of Nathaniel Alexander Owings papers, 1911-1983 (bulk 1960-1980). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982653 Biographical Note 1903, Feb. 5 Born, Indianapolis, Ind. 1921 1922 Student, Unive...

Waddell, Theodore, 1941-....

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Grimm, Marjorie.

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Marjorie Grimm is a painter in New York, N.Y. Ad Reinhardt (full name Adolf Frederick Reinhardt) was a painter; he is best known for his black paintings which date from 1960. From the description of Marjorie Grimm printed material and letters received from Ad Reinhardt, 1962-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122753 ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Architecture and Planning

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Ginsberg, Nathan R.

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Haskell, Douglas Putnam, 1899-1979

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Douglas Putnam Haskell was born in Monastir, Yugoslavia, in 1899, the son of American missionaries to the Balkans. He eventually moved to the United States, where he graduated from Oberlin College in 1923 with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Art. Known as the "dean" of architectural editors, Haskell wrote architectural criticism and edited numerous periodicals. He worked for The New Student as an editor from 1923-1927, was on the editorial staff of Creative Art from 1927-1929, was a...

Lönberg-Holm, K. (Knud), 1895-1972.

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Harvard university, Graduate school of design

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These models were created for the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition: Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, June 26-September 21, 2008. From the description of Models created after Buckminster Fuller designs by students of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2008. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865251 Maria Kohlrausch worked in Dept. of Landscape Architecture 1928-1950. She corresponded with Harvard University Graduate School of Design stude...

Nowicki, Maciej, 1910-1950

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Matthew Nowicki (1910-1950), born Maciej Nowicki, was a professor of Architecture and served as the acting Head of the Department of Architecture at North Carolina State College (1948-1950). He studied at the Chicago Art Institute (1922), the School of Design of Gerson-Warsaw (1925-1926), the School of Mehofer-Cracow (1927), and the Polytechnic of Warsaw (1925-1926). Nowicki was born in Chita, Russia and later married artist Stanislowa Sandeck. He designed the interiors of the Carolina Country C...

National Research Council (U.S.). Building Research Institute

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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...

Wurster, William W.

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Alexander, Robert E. (Robert Evans), 1907-1992

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An architect and city planner, Robert Evans Alexander graduated in the Cornell University Class of 1930. He was a member of the International Fraternity of Lambda Alpha, Los Angeles Chapter. From the guide to the Robert Evans Alexander papers, 1935-1993, (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) Architect, city planner. Cornell University Class of 1930. Member, International Fraternity of Lambda Alpha, Los Angeles Chap...

Heckscher, August

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Kamphoefner, Henry L. (Henry Leveke), 1907-1990

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Henry Leveke Kamphoefner was dean of the North Carolina State College (later North Carolina State University) School of Design, 1948-1973, and continued to teach architecture at North Carolina State Universtiy until 1979. Kamphoefner practiced architecture in Sioux City, Iowa, 1932-1936; was associate architect for the Rural Resettlement Administration in Washington, D.C., 1936-1937; and taught architecture at the University of Oklahoma, 1937-1948. From the description of Henry Levek...

Kennedy, Robert Woods

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Lessing, Theodore.

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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...

Ford, O'Neil, 1905-1982

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O'Neil Ford (1905-1982) was a prominent architect in the southwestern United States whose work, dedicated to native architectural forms and hand craftwork, historic preservation, and innovative design, also extended nationally and internationally. Born in Pink Hill, Tex., Otha Neil Ford's early education and employment was informed by the arts-and-crafts movement. When Ford was twelve years old he began to help support his family after his father's death in a railroad ac...

Wurster, Catherine Bauer

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American writer on housing and related planning issues; official in the Federal Housing Administration and policy advisor on housing to Franklin D. Roosevelt and other U.S. presidents; associate dean and professor of city and regional planning, College of Environmental Design, University of California at Berkeley; married to the American architect William W. Wurster. From the description of Correspondence with Lewis and Sophia Mumford and related material, 1930-1983, n.d. (University...

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 1903-1987

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Architectural historian, critic, museum director, and influential teacher. Died 1987. From the description of Henry-Russell Hitchcock letters to Dorothy Stroud and John N. Summerson, 1946-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83551893 Architectural historian. From the description of Lectures on architecture, 1948 Jan.-May. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79723075 Hitchcock (1903-1987) was an architectural historian. From the description of Henr...

Saarinen, Aline B. (Aline Bernstein), 1914-1972

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Aline Saarinen (1914-1972) was an art and architectural critic in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; She worked for the New York Times as an art and architectural critic. She married architect Eero Saarinen, the architect, after the dissolution of her first marriage to Joseph Louchheim. Aline Saarinen was the sister of art dealer Charles Alan. Eero was born in Helinski, Finland, son of architect Eliel Saarinen. From the description of Aline and Eero Saarinen papers, 19...

Weerasinghe, O. (Oliver)

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West, Troy.

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Cadbury-Brown, James.

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Smith, G. E. Kidder (George Everard Kidder), 1913-1997

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Harris, Harwell Hamilton, 1903-1990

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Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990) was born in Redlands, California. He apprenticed with the noted modernist architects Richard Neutra and Rudolf Schindler until 1933, at which time he established his own practice in Los Angeles. In 1943, he taught for one year at Columbia University before returning to California. From 1952 to 1955, he was the Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He taught at North Carolina State University from 1962 until retirement. Harris...

Schindler, R. M. (Rudolph M.), 1887-1953

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Austrian architect who moved to the United States to work with F.L. Wright, settling finally in Los Angeles. From the description of R. M. Schindler, Architect, 1948. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84387916 American architect, whose work attracted young European architects, such as the Austrian-born R.M. Schindler, to the United States. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright correspondence with R.M. Schindler, 1914-1929 (bulk 1918-1922). (Get...

Schram, Donald F.

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North Country School.

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Johnson-Marshall, Percy

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Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981

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German designer and Bauhaus teacher. From the description of Photographs of furniture designed by Marcel Breuer and Gustav Hassenpflug, 1926-1933. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79881559 Marcel Lajos Breuer was born in Pécs, Hungary, on May 21, 1902. Marcel Breuer is known worldwide both as a designer of furniture and as an architect. Starting in 1920 he attended the Bauhaus at Weimar, headed by Walter Gropius. He graduated in 1924, and soon after Gropius a...

Federal Writers' Project (N.Y.)

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Architects' Emergency Committee

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Born, Ernest, 1898-1992

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Ernst Born was an architect, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a frequent collaborator with Walter Horn. From the description of Ernest Born architectural drawings of medieval aisled timber halls. ca. 1944-ca. 1981. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 419226654 Ernest Born was born in 1898. He studied architecture under John Galen Howard at UC Berkeley and then went to work in Europe. On his return he worked in New York for almost ten years...

Sturtevant, Roger (American photographer, died 1982)

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Roger Sturtevant (1903-1982) was the recipient of the American Institute of Architect's first architectural photography medal in 1960. Born in Alameda, California, Sturtevant gained recognition for his photography of buildings by Bay Area and other Western architects. From the description of Roger Sturtevant collection [graphic] ca. 1934-1938. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 43832502 ...

Feiss, Carl (American urban planner, 1907-1997)

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Educator, city planner and historic preservation consultant. Carl Lehman Feiss received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1931; a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1938; and studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art under Eliel Saarinen from 1932-1935. Feiss taught at Columbia University School of Architecture from 1936 to 1941, where he became director of the Planning and Housing Division. ...

Harrison, Wallace K. (Wallace Kirkman), 1895-1981

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This design was completed c.1940. From the description of Wallace K. Harrison house [Huntington, Long Island, N.Y.] [graphic] : [floor plan, with notes and measurements] / [Wallace K. Harrison, architect ; drawn from memory by Hester Diamond]. [194-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 271454123 Architect; interviewee d. 1981. From the description of Oral history interview with Wallace Kirkman Harrison, 1978. (Columbia University ...

Part, Antony, Sir, 1916-

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Smith, C. Wayne

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The Tattnall Rangers of Tattnall County, Georgia, served as Company B, 61st Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, during the Civil War. From the description of Tattnall Rangers history, 1861-1864. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 166147827 ...

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 ...

Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961

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Eero Saarinen was born in Kirkkonummi, Finland, on August 20, 1910. His father, the architect Eliel Saarinen, and his family moved to Michigan in 1921. After receiving a B.F.A. in Architecture from Yale University in 1934, Saarinen joined his father's firm (Saarinen, Saarinen and Swanson) and began work as an architect. After his father's death in 1950, Saarinen began to make a name for himself as an architect, started his own firm (Eero Saarinen and Associates), and established a reputation as ...

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...

Hudnut, Joseph

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Thompson, Benjamin C.

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Hiss, Philip Hanson

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DeMars, Vernon, 1908-2005

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Vernon Armand DeMars was born in San Francisco, California, in 1908. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1931. After jobs with the National Park Service and travel in the U.S. and Europe, DeMars worked from 1936- 1942 as district architect for the Farm Security Administration's regional office in San Francisco. In 1939, DeMars co-founded Telesis, a city and regional planning organizatio. He married Betty Bates in the same year, with whom...

Banham, Reyner.

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Author of many books on architecture including Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960) and Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971). Epithet: writer on architecture British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001569.0x0002c6 ...

Holden, Arthur Cort, 1890-

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Resident of Kirtland, Ohio. From the description of Lakeland Community College collection, [19--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70963633 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Arthur Cort Holden (1890-1993) was a New York City based architect who was a graduate of Princeton University, 1912 and of Columbia University, 1915. He was also a member of the American Institute of Architects from 1921-1993 and a Fellow in 1942. During Holden's long career he maintained an active practice either as a p...

Caudill, Rowlett, Scott

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Robert C. (Robert Clifton), 1907-1997.

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Carrier, Stephen R.

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Wright, Henry N.

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Boyne, Colin

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Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986

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Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) was an architect from Troy, Mich. From the description of Minoru Yamasaki interview, [ca. 1959 Aug.] [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78355642 Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) was an architect from Detroit, Mich. From the description of Minoru Yamasaki lecture, 1959 Aug. 13 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79701528 Minoru Yamasaki (1912-1986) was an American architect. Born in Seattle,...

Architecture Plus International.

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Walker, Ralph, 1889-1973

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Ralph Thomas Walker (1889-1973) was an American architect. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and studied with Rhode Island architect Howard K. Hilton. In 1916 he went to work for the New York firm of McKenzie, Voorhees and Gmelin, where he remained for the rest of his career. In 1955 he led a group of architects sent to Berlin to participate in planning for the International Building Exhibition (IBA) to be held in 1957; as part of this effort, he and his team p...

Morgan, Willard D. (Willard Detering), 1900-1967

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