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New York World's Fair (Location of meeting: New York, N.Y.). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1939-1940 :.)

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur Freeman Brinckerhoff papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8632
Scope and content Three portfolios and loose items documenting Brinckerhoff's work as a landscape architect. The items include mostly photographs, but also development plan drawings for projects. The photographs show the completed work including gardens, trees, fountains, water features, waterfalls, sculpture, as well as the exteriors of the buildings on the properties.The portfolios are numbered. Number III contains items pertaining to the estates of S. Wilbur Corman, Bronxville, New York; Lewis Bowman...
Dates: circa 1930.

Charles Downing Lay papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4477
Abstract

Notebooks of architectural class notes and drawings; student papers; notebooks and sketchbooks on gardens; photographs of gardens and parks; architectural drawings and renderings; pen and ink drawings; and articles on architectural topics.

Dates: 1898-1956.

Charles N. Lowrie papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6611
Abstract Charles Nassau Lowrie (April 8, 1869 – September 18, 1939) was an American landscape architect and designer born in Warriors Mark, Pennsylvania. The Charles N. Lowrie papers documents the architectural practice of Charles N. Lowrie (1869-1939), American landscape architect and founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. The collection contains architectural plans for residential, educational, recreational, and public works projects; professional correspondence;...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1892 - 1939; 1857 - 1955

Lyon family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1285
Scope and content

Sanford G. Lyon items include a two page manuscript history of the business activities of Sanford G. Lyon, Sr. and other members of his family, 1885-1937, written by Josephine Head Lyon in 1953, concerning the shipment of livestock, sale of hay, grain, coal, lumber, farm and building supplies, as well as Lyon's own brand of fertilizer. Also, newspaper clippings pertaining to Lyon's candidacy for the New York State Legislature, 1922-1924.



Dates: 1914-2003.

Olive Tjaden papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 15-6-2919
Abstract Correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, business and financial records, lists and other records pertaining to the practice of architecture and the renovation of Tjaden Hall on the Cornell campus, clippings, broadsides, diplomas, certificates, licenses, and other papers. Collection includes framed images, drawings, watercolors, and other visual images deriving from Tjaden's professional career, with numerous references to individual clients and patrons. Also includes books, leaded...
Dates: 1919-1997

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Photographs 3
Landscape architects 2
Landscape architects. 2
Architects and housing developers. 1
Architects. 1