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Avery Drawings & Archives

Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company architectural records, 1866-1985, bulk 1890-1942

40.1 linear feet
This collection is made up of architectural drawings, correspondence, specifications, contracts, invoices, minutes, financial statements, patents, advertisements, photographs, photograph album, test results and reports, memoranda, tile samples, factory order cards, and other materials pertaining to The Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company's projects. The dates of the materials span 1866-1985, with bulk dates 1890-1942. The architectural records include structural, decorative, and acoustical sample products and fragments. Also included are materials added to the files by George Collins (1917-1993), Professor of Art History at Columbia University. Prof. Collins secured the donation of this archive in 1963, and remained its custodian until it was transferred to the Drawings and Archives Collection at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library in 1988. The records document Prof. Collins' research efforts, as well as the Company's projects in forty states (including District of Columbia), four Canadian provinces, and eleven other foreign countries.
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Proposed 18 foot dome (New York, NY) / Seelye, Stevenson, Value & Knecht, Engineers, 1954 Box 01 (admin), Folder 11 (housed in the project file series)

Proposed 18 foot dome (New York, NY) / Seelye, Stevenson, Value & Knecht, Engineers, 1954
, Stevenson, Value & Knecht; engineers. 2. A two page work sheet, handwritten, with a listing of costs for
2 items: 1. A typed two page copy of a bid on a proposed 18 foot dome in the vicinity of NYC Seelye

2 items: 1. A typed two page copy of a bid on a proposed 18 foot dome in the vicinity of NYC Seelye, Stevenson, Value & Knecht; engineers. 2. A two page work sheet, handwritten, with a listing of costs for this dome. The cost of tile, payroll, etc., are listed. The second page shows a simple drawing in pencil of the proposed dome's span and rise.

  1. Series II: Administrative and Technical Records
  2. R.G. CO. GENERAL SALES
Avery Drawings & Archives

Shreve Lamb & Harmon architectural records, 1930-1989, bulk 1937-1965

985 drawings

This collection includes original and reprographic presentation, working, and rental drawings for projects in the New York City area, including the Ferris Booth Hall and Dormitory at Columbia University; the Empire State Building; Hunter College; the Johns-Manville Sales Corporation exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair; the Julliard School of Music; New York City Hall additions and renovations; National City Bank of New York; P.S. 302 and P.S. 307 in Brooklyn; and the United Engineering Center at the United Nations Plaza.

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Avery Drawings & Archives

Douglas Putnam Haskell papers, 1866-1979-(bulk 1949-1964).

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Douglas Putnam Haskellan (1899-1979) was an American writer, architecture critic and magazine editor. This collection contains correspondence, memos, articles, speeches, lectures, transcripts, clippings, notes, printed matter, photographs, audiotapes, and memorabilia mainly relating to Douglas Haskell's editorship at Architectural Forum and his professional activities. The collection includes items dating from 1866 to 1979, with the majority of materials dating from the period of 1949 to 1964.
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S (Se—Shz), 1949-1964 Box 19, Folder 1 to 2

DH to Steve Thompson. [19??]; Memo. Seelye, Stevenson, Value & Knecht report on lift-slab failure

Seaver, Joan. 1962; Re an organization called the Architects and Engineers Service. The Service's home office is The Building Exhibition Center in Los Angeles.

  1. Series I: Pending Correspondence