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Avery Drawings & Archives

Douglas Darden papers and drawings, 1979-1996

7 linear feet
Douglas Darden (1951-1996) was an American architect based out of Denver, Colorado. Darden was best known for his book Condemned Building, a collection of ten allegorical projects. This collection contains much of Darden's work for that book as well as the process work for his second book, Laughing Girls, which he was working on at the time of his death. It also contains a large portion of his early works and his professional papers in the form of documents, drawings, photographs, and slides.
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Subseries 11: Oxygen House

Contains the material for Darden's project based on the fictitious story of an ex-railroad employee

Contains the material for Darden's project based on the fictitious story of an ex-railroad employee, Burnden Abraham, who after being injured in a train derailment must live in an oxygen tent. The subseries contains research material on train instruments and railroad infrastructure, anatomy of the lungs, hydraulics, and zeppelins. It also contains images for the "Dis/continuous Genealogy," notes, drafts, paste-ups, correspondence, and one drawing.

  1. Series I: Condemned Building
Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Lydiard Heneage Horton papers, 1900-1945

9 boxes

Many typescripts of Horton's lectures, research studies, articles, and professional case histories, material gathered by the Cartesian Research Bureau, and correspondence, chiefly professional. The correspondence is largely that of Samuel Dana Horton, father of Lydiard, and includes eight letters of Moreton Frewen, three each of Robert Todd Lincoln, John Fiske, and C.W. Fremantle, one of President James A. Garfield, and typescript copies of nine from Henry James. There are two letters from Dr. Horton to his guardian, Frederick W. Holls, and one each to Horton from William James and William Howard Taft. The remaining indexed correspondence is with colleagues and professional associates. Some of the case histories contain correspondence as well as documentary material. Also, a diary of Lydiard H. Horton for July to December 1896, and copies of excerpts from the diary of Samuel Dana Horton, 1860, photographs, newspaper clippings, and printed pamphlets.

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