Bastide Exhibition Text Panels, Undated
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
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 Canberra, 1912; correspondence pertaining to Saint Louis Illustrated; and publications and lectures by Reps. Files for CRP 462.
Research materials and notes for a projected book about planning in the Southeastern United States.
Also, scrapbooks and albums compiled from various trips taken by Professor and Mrs. Reps, and an album from the 2001 symposium commemorating Professor Reps's 50th anniversary at Cornell.
Notes, correspondence, drafts, etc. relating to John Caspar Wild: Painter and Printmaker of Nineteenth-century Urban America, a catalogue raisonneĢ, by John Reps, published by the Missouri Historical Society Press, 2006.
Photographs and articles, also a CD (CD-1387) relating to Gilmore Clarke.
Personal items include photographs; travel diary from England, 1947; interviews with UK planners, 1950-1951 and a 1994 article; negatives of views of French bastides (new towns) used in an exhibition; color transparencies of Cornell views, summer 1986; file "How Lewis Mumford Never Came to Cornell," 1965-1970; correspondence about St. Louis Illustrated, 1985; file on Alex McLean/Landslides for Cities of the Mississippi, 1988; additional photographs; listing of "American Town Plans" and "European Maps and Plans" owned by Professor Reps; diploma, awards, certificates, and plaques.
Research files on French bastides, research files for a proposed book on medieval and Renaissance city images, transparencies and negatives for published books, and miscellaneous files.
Dates
- Undated
Creator
- From the Collection: Reps, John William. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
54.3 cubic feet.
1 mapcase folders.
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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