Frank Sommer papers and research notes, ca.1969-2006.

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Frank Sommer papers and research notes, ca.1969-2006.

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Collection includes correspondence, diaries, notes, drafts of papers and books, note cards, and some drawings. The "diaries" are actually a combination of notes and diaries, as Sommer wrote comments about what he was reading and comments on topics in which he was interested, in addition to recording his activities. The collection contains notes and drafts for books on which Sommer worked, one a book about art in the Palazzo Farnese entitled "Images of Virtue, Images of Love: Socrates in the Palazzo Farnese," and the other a book about Inigo Jones entitled "The Jones Alternative: Five Variations on an Ionic Theme." In 1990, Sommer gave a paper about Thomas Jefferson and architecture at a conference at the University of Virginia; information about that conference and copies of the paper are part of this collection. Also included in the collection is a list of books in Sommer's private library (on note cards) and reading notes from classes he took or taught. As well, the collection includes some drawings by Sommer, some unsigned drawings, reproductions of maps of Walden Pond, New Orleans and Paris, and glass slides of an unknown work.

23 boxes, 3 folders : ill.

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Sommer, Frank H.

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Frank Henry Sommer, III, was the head of the Winterthur library. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, on July 30, 1922, the son of George Raymond and Abigail Woodruff Van Horn Sommer. He earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1943 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a graduate student at Yale and also studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. Sommer received his Ph.D. in archaeology from Yale in 1950. He was a professor at the University of Delaware from 1948-195...