Edward Durell Stone papers 1927-1969 (bulk 1940-1963).

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Edward Durell Stone papers 1927-1969 (bulk 1940-1963).

Papers include correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, reports, lists, photographs, speeches, clippings, plans, blueprints, drawings, specifications, pamphlets, scrapbook, business and legal records and other materials created or received by Arkansas-born architect Stone and pertaining primarily to his professional life and work, principally in the period 1943-1960. Specific architectural projects to which materials pertain include the United States Embassy in New Delhi, the United States Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, and numerous buildings on the campuses of the University of Arkansas and other academic institutions. Arranged in nine series and 21 sub-series.

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University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Stone, Edward Durell

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Edward Durell Stone (1902-1978) was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He attended the University of Arkansas from 1920 to 1923, then moved to Boston to take courses at the Boston Architectural Club, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1927, he was awarded the Rotch Scholarship, which enabled him to travel and study architecture in Europe from 1927 to 1929. On his return from Europe in 1929, Stone worked with several architectural firms in New York before establish...

Edward Durell Stone & Associates.

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United States. Embassy (India)

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Vanderbilt University.

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