The magic of America, ca. 1937-1949.

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The magic of America, ca. 1937-1949.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82007887

The collection includes the annotated typescript accompanied by an image collection of photographs, articles, and drawings. The Magic of America is both a biography of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin's own autobiography, presented in four sections: The Empirial [sic] Battle, The Federal Battle, The Municipal Battle, and The Individual Battle. The Art Institute possesses two non-identical copies of the typescript. One copy contains all four sections of the text; the second copy lacks the first section. The typed pages of the two copies have been differently collated, and carry varying manuscript annotations. Sources for the non-chronological and unrelated brief essays are numerous and included transcribed letters, Walter's writings and lectures, and other published writings. Among the illustrations are blueprints, original sketches, photographs, newspaper and magazine articles, and brochures.

7 boxes (1.5 linear feet), 3 portfolios.

Aurora University, Phillips Library

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Aurora University, Phillips Library

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Griffin, Walter Burley, 1876-1937

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Walter Burley Griffin was an architect and landscape architect. Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1962) was an architect who worked mainly as an architectural renderer. She was the first women to graduate, in 1894, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in architecture. Both had previously worked for Frank Lloyd Wright at his studio in Oak Park, Illinois. From the description of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin architectural drawings, circa 1909-1937. (...

Griffin, Marion Mahony, 1871-1961

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Architect and wife of Walter Burley Griffin, architect (1876-1937). From the description of The magic of America : typescript, [between 1937 and 1949] / Marion Mahony Griffin. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58665394 ...