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, working notes and folders; American Institute of Planners committee reports, minutes, and correspondence; county reference files for the area served by RPA; American Planning and Civic Association, minutes, reports, and correspondence; information files on all subjects connected with urban life; and scrapbooks of clippings about the Regional Plan Association. Major correspondents include Thomas Adams, Frederic Delano, Richard Hurd, Lawson Purdy, Lewis Mumford, Richard Whitten, Edward Bassett, Lawrence Orton, and Flavel Shurtleff.
Dates
- 1919-1997.
Creator
- Regional Plan Association (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
291.5 cubic feet. (291.5 cubic feet.)
Physical Description
Correspondence, photographs, and research materials.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- 1986
- EAD encoding:
- Evan Fay Earle, July 2007
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, November 2017
- Adams, Thomas, 1871-1940.
- American Institute of Planners
- American Planning and Civic Association
- Arden House
- Bassett, Edward M. (Edward Murray), 1863-1948.
- Business relocation.
- City and town life.
- City planning.
- Delano, Frederic.
- Fagin, Henry, 1913-
- Hurd, Richard.
- Inter-County Planning Conference
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
- New York Metropolitan Region Study
- Norton, Charles D.
- Norton, Charles McKim.
- Orten, Lawrence.
- Purdy, Lawson, 1863-1959.
- Race for Open Space
- Regional planning.
- Russell Sage Foundation. Committee on the Regional Plan of New York
- Shurtleff, Flavel, 1879-1978.
- Whitten, Richard.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- RMC Staff
- Date
- July 2007
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu