Jens Jensen drawings and papers, 1903-1951.

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Jens Jensen drawings and papers, 1903-1951.

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The collection is comprised of approximately two thousand landscape architectural drawings (largely original with a scattering of prints) representing Jensen's work from ca. 1903 until retirement in 1934. In addition, there is a small accumulation of manuscript material, including correspondence, a few photographs, publications and lecture notes (.5 linear ft.). More than four hundred and sixty projects are arranged alphabetically by project title, foldered and stored in flat file drawers. Parks and preserves, schools, residential areas, estates, hospitals, office complexes and government centers are all represented, although the number of drawings for each project varies widely. Work consists mainly of drawings in black ink or graphite on linen and tracing paper, with occasional sketches rendered in colored pencil. Of particular significance are drawings for Chicago parks; estate work executed for Edsel Ford in Michigan and Maine; the "ideal section" of the Lincoln Highway; and the Avery Coonly and Henry Babson estates in Riverside, Illinois -- collaborations with Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan respectively.

93 oversize folders and 1.5 linear ft.

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