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
- 1919-1968.
Creator
- Black, Russell Van Nest, 1893-1969. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Planner, landscape architect, civil engineer, author, teacher.
Russell Van Nest Black graduated from Cornell University in 1916, and later served as director of Bay Counties (San Francisco) Regional Plan, 1923; director of plans and surveys, Philadelphia Regional Plan, 1925-1929; vice president and president of the American Institute of Planners, 1933-1937; consultant to the New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia state planning boards; and consultant director to the New Jersey State Planning Board.
Extent
47 cubic feet. (47 cubic feet.)
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.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Correspondence
Series II. Client Files
Allentown, Pennsylvania Clients B - D Clients E - Mercer County Clients M - R Clients S - Z Dead Job Files
Series III. Philadelphia Regional Plan
Series IV. Subject Files
A - H Highway - Housing Industry - Legislation L - M N-Parks, Parkways and Playgrounds PL - PR R - Transportation U - Zoning Ordinances Zoning: Trial Notices, Clippings A - L M-Z Unsorted
Series V. Russell Black Consulting Reports
A-L M-New Jersey P-Z Pennsylvania: Allentown - Lower Makefield Pennsylvania: Lower Paxton - Z
Series VI. American Institute of Planners
Series VII. Manuscripts and Research
Manuscripts by Black Building Line Research (1933) Articles by Black and Others
Series VIII. Graphic Materials
Series IX. Plans and Maps by Russell Black
California, Florida, Idaho, and Texas New Jersey and New York Pennsylvania Miscellaneous or Unknown Location
Physical Description
Correspondence, reports, printed materials, maps, publications. professional and organizational records.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- December 2014
- EAD encoding:
- Marcie Farwell, December 2014
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, May 2018
- Adams, Frederick J., 1880-1945.
- Adams, Thomas, 1871-1940.
- American Institute of Planners
- Ascher, Charles S. (Charles Stern), 1899-1980.
- Augur, Tracy Baldwin, 1896-1974.
- Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.
- Bartholomew, Harland, 1889-1989.
- Bassett, Edward M. (Edward Murray), 1863-1948.
- Bettman, Alfred, 1873-1945.
- Bigger, Frederick Thomas, 1881-1963.
- Blucher, Walter H. (Walter Harold), 1901-
- Buttenheim, Harold Sinley, 1877-1961.
- City planners -- United States.
- City planning.
- Clarke, Gilmore D., 1892-1982.
- Comey, Arthur C. (Arthur Coleman), 1886-1954.
- Contracts.
- Crane, Jacob L. (Jacob Leslie), 1892-1988.
- Dohram, Frederick.
- Draper, E. S. (Earle Sumner), 1893-1994.
- Engle, R. F. (Robert F.)
- Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939.
- Feiss, Carl.
- Haldeman, Benjamin Antrim, 1867-1955.
- Hartzog, Justin R. (Justin Richardson), 1892-1963.
- Hubbard, Henry Vincent, 1875-1947.
- James, Harlean, 1877-1969.
- Landscape architects -- United States.
- Lewis, Harold M. (Harold MacLean), 1889-1973.
- Mackesey, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1908-1976.
- Maps.
- Mayer, Albert, 1897-1981
- Montillon, Eugene Davis, 1883-1973.
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990.
- New Jersey. State Planning Bureau
- New York State Planning Board
- Nolen, John, 1869-1937.
- Pennsylvania State Planning Board
- Philadelphia Regional Plan
- Questionnaires.
- Randall, Robert, 1890-1966.
- Regional Plan Association of Bay Counties
- Regional planning.
- Root, Irving C.
- Segoe, Ladislas.
- Shurtleff, Flavel, 1879-1978.
- Stein, Clarence S.
- Tibbitts, Armand, 1891-1987.
- Tilton, L. Deming, 1890-1949.
- Unwin, Raymond, Sir, 1863-1940.
- Veiller, Lawrence, 1872-1959.
- Vinton, Warren Jay, 1889-1969.
- Virginia. State Planning Board
- Wetherill, Samuel Price, Jr., 1880-
- Whitnall, Gordon, 1888-
- Whitten, Robert M., 1873-1936.
- Wright, Henry C., 1878-1936.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- December 2014
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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