Brooks family papers, 1866-2010 (inclusive).

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Brooks family papers, 1866-2010 (inclusive).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702164494

The Brooks Family Papers contain materials relating to Harold Allen Brooks, Sr., Mildred McNeill-Brooks, and their son, Harold Allen Brooks, Jr. The materials consist of correspondence, writings, financial documents, photographs, and research files. The latter contains materials regarding Frank Lloyd Wright, other Prairie School architects, and Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. The research files on Jeanneret bring together documents and photographs collected from around the world and provide comprehensive documentation of Jeanneret's personal life, influences, and architectural career.

45 linear ft.

Yale University Library

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Yale University Library

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Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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Le Corbusier, 1887-1965

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Brooks, H. Allen (Harold Allen), 1925-2010

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Architectural editor and historian. From the description of H. Allen Brooks/Woodruff family collection, 1902-1986. (Litchfield Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 711670463 ...

Brooks family.

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Harold Allen Brooks, Sr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1886. He served in the army during World War I and afterwards became a banker. In June 1923, he married Mildred McNeill. McNeill was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1895. She attended Vassar College and was a nurse with the YWCA before marrying Brooks. Both died in the early 1950s. Harold Allen Brooks, Jr. was born in 1925. Brooks, Jr. received degrees from Dartmouth College (B.A., 1950), Yale University (M.A...