Alden B. Dow personal papers, 1910-1999 (bulk 1930-1975).

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Alden B. Dow personal papers, 1910-1999 (bulk 1930-1975).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70923062

Personal correspondence, photographs, motion picture films, including the earliest known film of Taliesin Fellowship (1933), lectures and speeches, oral histories, publications by or/and about Dow, sketchbooks and loose sketches, drawings, subject files on his interests in photography, creativity, color theory, model railroads, mechanical toys, work with committees and organizations, and other topics, and other papers. Other organizations, places, and subjects represented include Michigan Engineering Society, Michigan Society of Architects, Michigan State Capitol Committee, Midland City Planning Commission, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, Alden B. Dow Home & Studio, Dow Chemical Company, Dow Gardens, Northwood University, Midland, Mich., Lake Jackson and Freeport, Tex., Hillsdale College, and Interlochen Arts Academy.

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Alden B. Dow Archives

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