Skip to main content

Archives at Cornell

Landscape architects.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Armand Tibbitts papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4899
Scope and content

Selected drawings of Tibbitts' career, including work for several clients and for Hobart and William Smith Colleges; includes some watercolor drawings. Contains 119 drawings.

Dates: 1912-1969.

Byron R. Hanke papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6724
Scope and content

Professional papers of landscape architect and urban planner Byron R. Hanke including publications, correspondence, talks, research materials, diaries, scrapbooks, awards and honors relating to his career in the Federal Housing Administration and as a private sector consultant.

Dates: 1911-2000.

Carl F. Pilat collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8558
Scope and content

Collection consists of documentation of "Rensselaerwick," home of Antoine P. Voislawsky, Katonah, New York. Includes 11 photographs and clippings.

Dates: 1925-1930.

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

Clarke & Rapuano records

 Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: 3047
Abstract

Reports and studies, including plans, blueprints, photographs, publications, contracts, and drawings pertaining to transportation, parkways, and city planning projects in Queens, Westchester County, Long Island, Buffalo, and New York, New York; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and other places. Also, includes planning material pertaining to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City and a report prepared for Cornell University on Cornell Heights, 1987.

Dates: 1940-1993.

Cooley family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3625
Scope and content Clippings, programs, photographs, and memorabilia of Carolyn Slater Treman Cooley, her second husband Charles R. Cooley, her mother Caroline Adsitt Slater, her first husband Robert E. Treman, and other family members. Includes letters (three from George Lincoln Burr to Caroline Adsitt Slater); postcards; items from the American Battle Monuments Commission (World War II); passports of Charles R. Cooley; Cornell University class reunion items; file on Brud Holland; dog pedigree charts and...
Dates: [ca.1891]-1978.

Edward G. Lawson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4237
Abstract Photo album / sketchbook kept by Lawson during his years as a student at the American Academy in Rome, as a "Prix de Rome" winner in landscape architecture. Includes photographs and measured drawings of buildings and architectural details, planting lists, plans, and elevations, primarily in Italy. Also, photographs of plans of American cemeteries in France and England, 1921; photographs of Lawson, and of a portrait of Lawson; photographs of unidentified architectural details and plans;...
Dates: 1915-1937.

Elbert Peets papers

 Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 31924064723376]
Identifier: 2772
Abstract

Includes correspondence, reports, clippings, photographs, plans, and drawings related to projects on which Peets worked; material on the L'Enfant plan for Washington, D.C., of which Peets was a major proponent and guardian; material related to articles and books by or about Peets, including photographs and negatives from the book Civic Art; and personal correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and family papers.

Dates: 1883-1983,-1904-1974 (bulk)

Ellen McGowan Biddle Shipman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1259
Abstract

Correspondence, bills, orders, vouchers, subject files on landscaping and garden ornamentation, lectures, articles, printed material, a broadside. Photographs, planting plans, and oversize drawings and blueprints of gardens and landscape designs by Ellen Shipman.

Dates: 1914-1946