Edward M. Bassett papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2708

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Correspondence, books, articles, reports, legal briefs transcripts, and scrapbooks dealing with Bassett's tenure as a U.S. Congressman, 1902-1905, and his membership on committees and boards including the Public Service Commission of New York, the Brooklyn Committee on City Plan, the Zoning Committee of the City of New York, and the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs Committee. Papers deal primarily with zoning and city planning in New York City. Also includes many articles, reports and books authored by Bassett, such as The Master Plan, Zoning, and the Autobiography of Edward M. Bassett. There are also extensive legal records concerning zoning laws, regulations, and questions throughout the United States. Among his numerous correspondents were Harland Bartholomew, Otto M. Eidlitz, Lawson Purdy, Nelson P. Lewis, George McAneny, John Purroy Mitchel, Lewis H. Pounds, Frederic B. Pratt, Lewis T. Reed, Charles W. Shelton, Walter Stabler, Alfred T. White, and Robert H. Whitten.

Dates

1892-1948.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

16.3 cubic feet. (16.3 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

SERIES LIST

Series I. Outgoing correspondence Previously in Boxes 1-5 and now available on Microfilm only.

Series II. Incoming correspondence Box 6 (Also available on Microfilm.)

Series III. Zoning files Boxes 7-14 (Boxes 7-10 are also available on Microfilm.)

Series IV. Scrapbooks Previously in Boxes 17-22 and now available on Microfilm only.

Series V. Published materials Boxes 15-16

Available Copies:

Microfilm available for correspondence files, subject files, and scrapbooks. Boxes 1-5 contained copies of outgoing correspondence on very brittle paper and were discarded after filming. Box 6, incoming correspondence, was filmed and kept. Boxes 7-10 were filmed and kept. Boxes 11-16 were not filmed. Brittle scrapbooks in Boxes 17-22 were filmed and discarded. Box 23 was not filmed.

SEPARATED MATERIAL

Copies available through Cornell Library

Fifty Years of New York Steam Service (New York: New York Steam Corporation, 1932) CU call number: TH7641 .N53 1932
Porter L. Moore, The Renaissance of City Hall( (New York: Department of Public Works, 1956), CU call number: F128.8.C48 N4
Latham C. Squire, Zoning in New York (New York: Home Title Guaranty Co., 1948), CU call number: NAC768.N52 S411
Frank Backus Williams, The Law of City Planning and Zoning (New York: The MacMillan Co., 1922), CU call number: K3534 .W72 1922 ; NA9030 .W72
Land Book of the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York Desk and Library Edition (New York, New York: G.W. Bromley and Co., 1930), CU call number: G1254.N52 B86 1930 ++

Physical Description

Correspondence, books, articles, reports, legal briefs transcripts, books, and scrapbooks.

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:: N. Brown, K. Lefferts, M. Tebor, T. Hickerson
Date completed:: 1977
EAD encoding:: Martin Heggestad, Ann Hubert, April-July 2002
Date modified:: RMC staff, June 2016