"A Few Governing Principles of Regional Planning as Observed in the Philadelphia Tri-State District." American City Magazine May 1927; "For Release to All Newspapers of County upon Date of Taking Action Toward Starting Planning Study"; "Friends of Hightstown"; "Function of the City Engineer in City Planning," 1937 Annual Convention of the New Jersey State League of Municipalities at Atlantic City, November 18, 1937; "The Fucure of Land Subdivision" Harland Bartholomew January 16, 1936.; "The Future of Redlands and Its Relation to a City Plan" Rotarian Club Luncheon Talk, December 7, 1922., 1922-1927
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
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; and various other state and federal planning efforts in the 1930's. Correspondents include Frederick J. Adams, Thomas Adams, Charles Stern Ascher, Tracy Baldwin Augur, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Harland Bartholomew, Edward Murray Bassett, Alfred Bettman, Frederick Bigger, Walter Harold Blucher, Harold Sinley Buttenheim, Gilmore David Clarke, Arthur Coleman Comey, Jacob Leslie Crane, Jr., Frederick Dohram, Earle Sumner Draper, R.F. Engle, Livingston Farrand, Carl Feiss, Benjamin Antrim Haldeman, Justin Richardson Hartzog, Henry V. Hubbard, Harlean James, Harold MacLean Lewis, Thomas William Mackesey, Albert Mayer, Eugene Davis Montillon, Lewis Mumford, John Nolen, Robert Randall, Irving Root, Ladislas Segoe, Flavel Shurtleff, Clarence S. Stein, Armand Tibbitts, L. Deming Tilton, Raymond Unwin, Lawrence Veiller, Warren Jay Vinton, Samuel Price Wetherill, Jr., Gordon Whitnall, Robert M. Whitten, and Henry C. Wright.
Dates
- 1922-1927
Creator
- From the Collection: Black, Russell Van Nest, 1893-1969. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
47 cubic feet. (47 cubic feet.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
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