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Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.

 Person

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Carl Feiss papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2635
Abstract Papers include family and business correspondence, reports, published material, speeches, financial records, minutes and studies, primarily concerning various consulting jobs (largely in the South). Also, material concerning Feiss' participation in various national and international commissions and committees and his work for regional commissions such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. Also, family and personal correspondence; and microfilm of Feiss' papers, 1946-1952, from the now defunct...
Dates: [ca.1928]-1991.

Clarence Stein papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3600
Abstract

Contains job files relating to Clarence Stein's work as an architect and city planner, along with writings, including material pertaining to his book, Toward New Towns for America. Also contains personal and professional correspondence; correspondence and photographs pertaining to travels in China and the Far East; photographs of Stein, friends, and family; and medals, certificates, and pins.

Dates: 1905-1983.

Gordon Stephenson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3999

Henry Wright papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2736
Abstract

Includes project descriptions and reports on garden cities, housing research; the relation of city planning to architecture; article notes written jointly with Lewis Mumford; and biographical material.

Dates: 1907-1960,-1907-1938 (bulk)

Housing Study Guild records

 Collection
Identifier: 3333
Abstract

Publications, reports, and correspondence by or concerning the Housing Study Guild. Also, correspondence of Benjamin Macson Gruzen, council member of the Housing Study Guild, and publications of the National Association of Housing Officials, New York City Housing Authority and the United States Resettlement Administration.

Dates: 1929 - 1957; Majority of material found within 1929 - 1941

John Reps papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 15-2-1101
Abstract Drafts, resource materials, proofs and correspondence concerning Reps's book, Monumental Washington, ca.1967; first drafts, final manuscripts and galley proofs of The Making of Urban America, ca.1965 and Town Planning in Frontier America, ca.1968. Also, five photographs, ca.1865: three albumen prints of the Rochester flood; and two gelatin prints of the Sibley fire, Rochester, New York, collected by Professor Reps. Also notes on Competitors Australian Federal Capital Competition for the book...
Dates: 1865 - 2006; Majority of material found within 1940 - 2006

Regional Plan Association records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2688
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION Minutes, correspondence, financial records, speeches and publications. Operational files, beginning with the papers for the Committee on the Regional Plan of New York of the Russell Sage Foundation and the papers of Charles D. Norton. Material from the New York Metropolitan Region Study done by Harvard and the Regional Plan Association (1956-1961); study of migration in industry by Henry Fagin (1953-1954), Arden House conferences; Inter-County Planning Conference; Race for Open Space,...
Dates: 1919-1997.

Robert H. Elias papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-12-1848
Abstract

Includes correspondence, memoranda, conference agendas, notes, news releases, and reports of Robert Henry Elias, with particular reference to the American Studies Society, the American Historical Association, and the American Civilization Graduate Club.

Dates: 1933-1983.

Russell Van Nest Black papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3018
Abstract

Correspondence, reports, notes, questionnaires, articles, maps, contracts, pamphlets, brochures, ordinances, and legal notices related to city and state planning, primarily in the mid-Atlantic states. In addition to his private practice, papers deal with Black's membership in the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco; participation in the initial activities of the Regional Plan Association of San Francisco Bay Counties.

Dates: 1919-1968.

Warren Jay Vinton papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2946
Abstract Consists primarily of correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, minutes, reports, pamphlets, programs, newsletters, membership lists, reprints, speeches, press releases, broadsides, clippings, photographs, and copies of legislative hearings and bills documenting Vinton's active role in designing and implementing federal housing policies from 1935 to 1957. Papers concern many aspects of governmental activity in the public housing area, including low-income housing, defense housing, housing for...
Dates: 1932-1969.

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Subject
City planning. 8
City planners. 3
Photographs. 3
Regional planning. 3
Architects. 2
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Architecture. 2
Housing. 2
Maps. 2
Baldwin Hills Village (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
Bills (legislative records). 1
Broadsides -- United States -- 20th century. 1
Business relocation. 1
Chatham Village (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1
China -- Description and travel. 1
City and town life. 1
City planners -- United States. 1
City planning -- British Columbia -- Kitimat. 1
City planning -- California -- Los Angeles. 1
City planning -- Connecticut. 1
City planning -- Florida. 1
City planning -- Kentucky -- Louisville. 1
City planning -- Louisiana -- New Orleans. 1
City planning -- Louisiana. 1
City planning -- Maryland -- Greenbelt. 1
City planning -- Missouri. 1
City planning -- New Jersey -- Radburn. 1
City planning -- New York (N.Y.) -- Bronx. 1
City planning -- New York (N.Y.) -- Queens. 1
City planning -- New York (State) 1
City planning -- Ohio -- Greenhills. 1
City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh. 1
City planning -- Wisconsin -- Greendale. 1
City planning libraries. 1
Color slides. 1
Community development. 1
Contracts. 1
Detroit (Mich.) 1
East Asia -- Description and travel. 1
Eastchester Heights (New York, N.Y.) 1
Educators. 1
Galley proofs. 1
Greenbelt (Md.) 1
Greendale (Wis.) 1
Greenhills (Ohio) 1
Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration. 1
Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration. 1
Housing -- Effect of wars on. 1
Housing -- Law and legislation. 1
Housing research. 1
Kitimat (B.C.) 1
Landscape architects -- United States. 1
Mayors -- Maryland -- Somerset. 1
Monroe County (N.Y.) 1
Negatives (photographic). 1
Public housing -- Law and legislation. 1
Questionnaires. 1
Radburn (N.J.) 1
Regional planners. 1
Rochester (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works. 1
Schools of architecture. 1
Scrapbooks. 1
Social security. 1
Sociology, Urban. 1
Speeches. 1
Sunnyside Gardens (New York, N.Y.) 1
United States -- Study and teaching. 1
Vieux Carré (New Orleans, La.) 1
Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel. 1
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