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This collection includes original and reprographic architectural drawings, project files, photographs, correspondence, and professional papers related to preservation architect Giorgio Cavaglieri's architectural work, professional associations, and writings.

Correspondence, documents, financial records and memorabilia. The personal correspondence of Lawrence A. Wien, 1960-1983; including memoirs and notes on interests both personal and financial. The Lawrence A. Wien Foundation files include correspondence, 1958-1976, information on the Foundation's 10-year trust, and information on tax returns. Files for the Charles and Rosanna Batchelor Memorial fund consist of general correspondence, grant requests, and miscellaneous financial documents. The Committee to Increase Corporate Philanthropic Giving files comprise a large part of the collection. Among the numerous individual corporations represented are the American Broadcasting Company and the Zale Company. Wien's Foundation for the Improvement of Housing Arrangements for Official Foreign Personnel has personal files for each person receiving the Foundation's benefits, guarantees for those individuals, and letters ment to solicit funds from various corporations

This collection contains 249 black and white photographic negatives of buildings within the designated slum clearance area of the Lincoln Square Urban Renewal Project in New York City. The photographer is unidentified. Address locations are identified in the negative.

This collection contains approximately 5100 drawings, including preliminary design drawings and unbuilt studies, presentation drawings, and working drawings, for more than 100 individual projects designed by Philip Johnson, some in collaboration with John Burgee. Locations include the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, and Venezuela. Major commissions included in this collection are the Glass House in New Canaan, CT; the New York State Pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair, Queens, NY; the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, NYC; Asia House, NYC; the H.L. Moses Building at Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, NY; the master plan for Welfare Island, NYC; the Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; and buildings for Sarah Lawrence College, Seton Hill College, the University of St. Thomas, and Yale University. Also of note in this collection are many presentation renderings by Helmut Jacoby and other architectural renderers. A subset of this collection includes drawings created for the 1996 monograph on Philip Johnson by Peter Blake.