John Reps papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 15-2-1101

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 raisonné, 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

1865 - 2006
Majority of material found within 1940 - 2006

Creator

Reps, John William. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

54.3 cubic feet.

1 mapcase folders.

Additional Description

Abstract

Research materials and notes for a projected book about planning in the Southeastern United States.

Abstract

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.

Abstract

Notes, correspondence, drafts, etc. relating to John Caspar Wild: Painter and Printmaker of Nineteenth-century Urban America, a catalogue raisonné, by John Reps, published by the Missouri Historical Society Press, 2006.

Abstract

Photographs and articles, also a CD (CD-1387) relating to Gilmore Clarke.

Abstract

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.

Abstract

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.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Slides and Photographs

Physical Description

Extent is approximate.

Physical Description

Photographs

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.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by: Ben Wrubel: RMC Staff
Date completed: Ben Wrubel: August 2018
EAD encoding: Ben Wrubel: RMC Staff, August 2018

NOTES

See also: Urban Explorer: The John Reps Travel Photographs, which consists of digitized images from this collection.

See also: John Reps Bastides Collection, which consists of digitized images from this collection.