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Architecture -- Study and teaching.

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Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Albert C. Phelps lecture notes and diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 15-2-1001
Scope and content

Lecture notes for Phelps' courses in architecture at Cornell and a diary of daily life and a trip to Europe in 1930-1931.

Dates: [ca.1900-1931].

Albert G. Hallock letters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-610
Scope and content

Mostly student letters (1907-1911) from Hallock to his mother; but also includes letters by Hallock and others after his graduation (1912-1914, 1924, 1927).

Dates: 1907-1911.

Andrew Dickson White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-2-2
Abstract

Collection consists of papers relating to White's activities as educator, politician, and diplomat.

Dates: 1832-1919.

Benjamin S. Hubbell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-1917
Scope and content

Portfolio of artwork including student sketches and drawings made before he entered Cornell; twenty-six student architectural drawings by Hubbell and others for an alumni hall (never built) at Cornell University; and three notebooks, 1890-1891, including physics lectures by Prof. Edward L. Nichols.



Dates: 1888-1891.

Blanchard M. Mackintosh first class design notebook

 Collection — Manuscript box 48 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924070785633]
Identifier: 15-6-4013m
Scope and content

Student notebook of architecture problems from First Class Design, with inserted drawings on tissue paper.

Dates: 1905-1907.

Burnham Kelly papers

 Collection
Identifier: 15-1-1633
Abstract Correspondence, manuscripts, and reports relating to the development of an architecture and regional planning program at the University of Puerto Rico and to Kelly's visit to observe the planning and architecture programs at the University Del Valle in Colombia; file on the planning of a Cornell art museum, 1959-1968; report of the Centennial Planning Committee, 1960-1961, including material on the size of the University. Also, bibliographic cards on construction techniques. Additional...
Dates: 1947-1971.

Charles E. Babcock papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 15-5-1626
Scope and content Two volumes of lecture notes entitled "Ancient Architecture" and "Romanesque and Byzantine"; two publications, "Vaults" (20 pp.) and "Pendentives and other Devices" (3 pp.); and a typescript outline "Architectural Methods of Covering Spaces" (2 pp.). Also, a typescript describing the making of a bust of Professor Babcock and a photo of the bust, a cabinet card portrait of Babcock, and a note from him to Frederick W. Field (1895). Drawings of Lincoln Hall (1904). June 15, 1872, Plan of Sage...
Dates: [ca.1880-1908]

Colin Rowe papers

 Collection
Identifier: 15-2-3587
Scope and content

The collection contains biographical material related to Colin Rowe; lecture and manuscript materials, and illustrations from the book "The Architecture of Good Intentions: towards a possible retrospect", published in 1994. Portions of the materials were collected by Richard Becherer.

Dates: 1993-1996.

College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. New York City Program records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 15-4-2036
Scope and content

Records of curriculum, students, and activities of the New York City Program of the Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.

Dates: [ca.1960-1969]

College of Architecture oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-946
Scope and content Interviews by James P. Pfeifer, a fifth-year undergraduate in Architecture with Hubert E. Baxter (1887-1976, B.Arch. 1910), professor of architecture, 1911-1955, and Mrs. Phebe Baxter, May 4, 1969; John A. Hartell (1902-1995, B.Arch. 1925), professor of art, 1930-1968, chairman of the Department of Art, 1939-1959, May 30, 1969; Thomas W. Mackesey (1908-1976), professor of city and regional planning, Dean of the College of Art, Architecture, and Planning, 1951-1960, May 26, 1969 and June 3,...
Dates: 1967-1969.