Transcripts and photographs from the John Peter collection, 1951-1995.

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Transcripts and photographs from the John Peter collection, 1951-1995.

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Consists of interview transcripts and photographs used by John Peter in his books on 20th-century architects. Architects who are particularly well represented in these materials include Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, I.M. Pei, Eero Saarinen, Minoru Yamasaki, and Frank Lloyd Wright. In addition to the transcripts and photographs, the larger John Peter Collection contains 164 ten-inch sound tape reels, 279 seven-inch sound tape reels, and 168 sound cassettes, along with 12 personal cassettes and 3 personal seven-inch reels.

9.2 linear feet (15 boxes, approximately 8,059 items)

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Pei, I. M., 1917-

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Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986

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Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974

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Peter, John, 1917-1998

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Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961

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Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

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Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969

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Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005

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