Box 225
Container
Contains 2 Results:
"Introduction." The Colonial Mansions in Fairmount Park. By Theophilas B. White (1933). Ts and printed version. 2:2, 1933
File — Box: 225, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This subseries includes manuscript and typescript drafts of chapters, introductions, forewords and entries for dictionaries and encyclopedias. Kimball's most extensive contribution was to be the architecture portion of Art and Architecture of France in the eighteenth century, an installment of the Pelican History of Art series that would follow the volume written by Anthony Blunt. Francis Watson, an expert on French painting and sculpture was to contribute the bulk of the text. Kimball began...
Dates:
1933
Works cited. United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Competition. Architectural drawings (2). [oversize D f 1.3], undated
File — Box: 225, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
In 1917, George Dow, secretary of the Essex Institute of Salem, Massachusetts, informed Kimball of the institute's desire to publish in "a dignified and suitable manner" its collection of architectural drawings by Samuel McIntire. Impressed by Kimball's recently published book on Jefferson's architectural works, Dow invited Kimball to edit the volume and prepare an introduction. Although initially hesitant, Kimball accepted the offer and, as evidenced by the earliest date of material, began...
Dates:
undated