Box 221
Container
Contains 15 Results:
Austria, Vienna. Glass plate negative, undated
File — Box: 221, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Like his postcard collection but far more extensive in scope and size, Kimball's "Geographic" files document architectural styles around the world. Unlike the postcard subseries, most of this material focuses on architecture of the United States. Documentation consists primarily of photographs and clippings, but also includes lantern slides, glass plate negatives, notes, drawings and a map. Both public and private structures are documented--from palaces and cathedrals to country manors and...
Dates:
undated
England, London. Glass plate negatives, undated
File — Box: 221, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Like his postcard collection but far more extensive in scope and size, Kimball's "Geographic" files document architectural styles around the world. Unlike the postcard subseries, most of this material focuses on architecture of the United States. Documentation consists primarily of photographs and clippings, but also includes lantern slides, glass plate negatives, notes, drawings and a map. Both public and private structures are documented--from palaces and cathedrals to country manors and...
Dates:
undated
France. Glass plate negatives, undated
File — Box: 221, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Like his postcard collection but far more extensive in scope and size, Kimball's "Geographic" files document architectural styles around the world. Unlike the postcard subseries, most of this material focuses on architecture of the United States. Documentation consists primarily of photographs and clippings, but also includes lantern slides, glass plate negatives, notes, drawings and a map. Both public and private structures are documented--from palaces and cathedrals to country manors and...
Dates:
undated
Illustrations. Glass plate negatives. 2:2, undated
File — Box: 221, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Following the 1917 death of Herbert Langford Warren, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Harvard University, Kimball recovered and edited Warren's partial draft for the first volume of what he had intended as a three-volume, comprehensive history of architecture. Kimball wrote an introduction to accompany the essay, and it was published in 1919 by the Macmillan Company under the title "The Foundations of Classic Architecture," reflecting the limited scope of the work. The records are...
Dates:
undated
Illustrations. Figures 48, 73 and 141. Glass plate negative, undated
File — Box: 221, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Fiske Kimball's groundbreaking third book evolved out of his lecture series on American architecture given at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in early 1920. The book, published in 1922 through Charles Scribner's Sons with support from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a heavily illustrated history of the evolution of early American architecture. Many of the houses discussed were further elaborated upon in Kimball's later writings. Material includes correspondence with William Sumner...
Dates:
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