COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Drawings, paintings, plans and photographs (including glass plate negatives) of architectural work, planning projects, stage designs, industrial designs, furniture and inventions. Also includes correspondence, biographical material, lecture notes, talks and reports; writings in city and regional planning, economic development, architecture, theater and related fields. Also, manuscript of a novel written by Herrey in the 1930s; and a play written under the pseudonym of Gilbert Tanner, ca.1960.
Dates
- [ca.1939]-1971.
Creator
- Herrey, Hermann, 1904-1968. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English, German, and French
Restrictions on Use:
Copyright retained by donor.
Restrictions on Use:
Permission to cite or quote from the collection must be obtained in writing from the donor's representative.
Biographical / Historical
Director of classical and modern drama, architect, city planner. A native of Vienna, Hermann Herrey was educated in Vienna and Berlin, and worked as a stage designer in Germany and England before coming to the United States in 1940, at the invitation of Walter Gropius. Herrey adapted and rewrote modern and classical plays and translated other plays into English and German; designed stage sets and costumes; and lectured at colleges and universities, including Harvard University, McGill University, Yale University, Queens College and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Extent
16.5 cubic feet. (16.5 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Drawings, paintings, plans and photographs (including glass plate negatives) of architectural work, planning projects, stage designs, industrial designs, furniture and inventions. Also includes correspondence, biographical material, lecture notes, talks and reports; writings in city and regional planning, economic development, architecture, theater and related fields. Also, manuscript of a novel written by Herrey in the 1930s; and a play written under the pseudonym of Gilbert Tanner, ca.1960.
Physical Description
Drawings, paintings, plans and photographs (including glass plate negatives), planning projects, stage designs, industrial designs, furniture, inventions, correspondence, biographical material, lecture notes, talks, reports, and manuscripts.
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:
- B. Shepherd, B. Huth
- Date completed:
- July 1981
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, May 2002 Julia Guarneri, June 2002
- Date modified:
- Ben Wrubel, October 2018
- Architects.
- Architectural design.
- City planners.
- City planning.
- Classical drama.
- Costume design.
- Drama -- 20th century.
- Drawings.
- Furniture design.
- Industrial design.
- Lecture notes.
- Paintings.
- Playwriting.
- Regional planning.
- Stage adaptions.
- Tanner, Gilbert.
- Theater.
- Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery.
- Theatrical producers and directors.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by B. Shepherd, B. Huth
- Date
- May 2002
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
- 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002
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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