George Collins papers, 1838-1986, bulk 1949-1986

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Series I: Faculty Papers

Series I is comprised of material relating to Collins' career as a professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University in the City of New York. A majority of the papers in this series are related to the Architecture and Technology course Collins taught and the Colloquium he led. There is also a series of folders containing correspondence relating to academic affairs between the years of 1949 and 1958.



Box 1 Folder 1 Academic Affairs [1 of 2], 1947-1969



Box 1 Folder 2 Academic Affairs [2 of 3], 1946-1979



Box 1 Folder 3 Academic Affairs [3 of 3], 1946-1954

Material specifically relating to Columbia College



Box 1 Folder 4 School of General Studies [1 of 2], 1952

Cooperative program with the Metropolitan Museum of Art



Box 1 Folder 5 School of General Studies [2 of 2], 1953-1974



Box 1 Folder 6 Programs in the Arts, 1958-1962



Box 1 Folder 7 Committee on the Humanities, 1962



Box 1 Folder 8 Humanities Music Course, 1962



Box 1 Folder 9 Columbia University Art Center, 1963



Box 1 Folder 10 Vassar to Join Yale in New Haven, 1967



Box 1 Folder 11 The Bell Report, 1966 and 1969



Box 1 Folder 12 The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies [1 of 2], 1971



Box 1 Folder 13 The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies [2 of 2], 1971



Box 1 Folder 14 Urban Design Symposium, 1967



Box 1 Folder 15 to 19 Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, 1961-1968



Box 1 Folder 20 History of City Planning, 1974



Box 1 Folder 21 to 28 Architecture and Technology, 1976



Box 1 Folder 29 to 32 Architecture and Technology Papers [1 of 2], 1976



Box 2 Folder 1 to 6 Architecture and Technology Papers [2 of 2], 1976



Box 2 Folder 7 Introduction to the Arts, 1977



Box 2 Folder 8 Organization of Colloquium, 1971-1974



Box 2 Folder 9 Planning Colloquium, 1972



Box 2 Folder 10 Colloquium Topics [1 of 37], undated

Arcades and Galleries



Box 2 Folder 11 Colloquium Topics [2 of 37], 1983

Architectural Drawings



Box 2 Folder 12 Colloquium Topics [3 of 37], 1979-1985

Architecture and Genius



Box 2 Folder 13 Colloquium Topics [4 of 37], 1982

Architecture in Painting



Box 2 Folder 14 Colloquium Topics [5 of 37], 1978

Architectural Photography



Box 2 Folder 15 Colloquium Topics [6 of 37], 1973-1985

Architecture in Society



Box 2 Folder 16 Colloquium Topics [7 of 37], 1973-1985

Columbia University Campus



Box 2 Folder 17 Colloquium Topics [8 of 37], 1975

Columns



Box 2 Folder 18 Colloquium Topics [9 of 37], 1973

Domes



Box 2 Folder 19 Colloquium Topics [10 of 37], 1978-1982

Doors



Box 2 Folder 20 Colloquium Topics [11 of 37], 1981-1985

Formalism



Box 2 Folder 21 Colloquium Topics [12 of 37], 1974-1984

Functionalism



Box 2 Folder 22 Colloquium Topics [13 of 37], 1978-1985

Functionalism



Box 2 Folder 23 Colloquium Topics [14 of 37], 1962-1970

Geometry



Box 2 Folder 24 Colloquium Topics [15 of 37], 1983-1984

Geometry



Box 2 Folder 25 Colloquium Topics [16 of 37], 1979-1981

Geometry



Box 2 Folder 26 Colloquium Topics [17 of 37], 1981

Geometry, Proportion, Nature and the Cosmos



Box 2 Folder 27 Colloquium Topics [18 of 37], 1967

Geometric Planning



Box 2 Folder 28 Colloquium Topics [19 of 37], undated

Golden Section



Box 2 Folder 29 Colloquium Topics [20 of 37], 1982

Historic Preservation



Box 2 Folder 30 Colloquium Topics [21 of 37], 1977-1984

Historiography



Box 2 Folder 31 Colloquium Topics [22 of 37], 1977-1985

Iconography



Box 2 Folder 32 Colloquium Topics [23 of 37], 1979-1984

Iconography



Box 2 Folder 33 Colloquium Topics [24 of 37], undated

Iconography



Box 2 Folder 34 Colloquium Topics [25 of 37], 1979

Modular Architecture



Box 2 Folder 35 Colloquium Topics [26 of 37], 1980-1981

The Museum



Box 2 Folder 36 Colloquium Topics [27 of 37], 1983

Ornament



Box 2 Folder 37 Colloquium Topics [28 of 37], 1972-1974

Psychology and Aesthetics



Box 2 Folder 38 Colloquium Topics [29 of 37], 1977-1985

Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall



Box 2 Folder 39 Colloquium Topics [30 of 37], 1979

The Roof



Box 2 Folder 40 Colloquium Topics [31 of 37], 1975

Space



Box 3 Folder 1 Colloquium Topics [32 of 37], 1962

Stairs



Box 3 Folder 2 Colloquium Topics [33 of 37], 1985

Structure



Box 3 Folder 3 Colloquium Topics [34 of 37], 1973-1984

Structure



Box 3 Folder 4 Colloquium Topics [35 of 37], 1974-1982

Style



Box 3 Folder 5 Colloquium Topics [36 of 37], 1972-1985

Style



Box 3 Folder 6 Colloquium Topics [37 of 37], 1977-1985

The Wall



Box 3 Folder 7 Colloquium Guests [1 of 3], 1972-1974

Professor Alfred Frazer



Box 3 Folder 8 Colloquium Guests [2 of 3], 1972-1975

Robert Streb



Box 3 Folder 9 Colloquium Guests [3 of 3], 1963-1975

Sir Tom Mellor



Box 3 Folder 10 Colloquium Visits [1 of 4], 1979-1985

Avery Library



Box 3 Folder 11 Colloquium Visits [2 of 4], 1981-1985

Avery Library



Box 3 Folder 12 Colloquium Visits [3 of 4], 1982

Grand Central Terminal



Box 3 Folder 13 Colloquium Visits [4 of 4], 1977-1985

St Paul's Chapel and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine



Box 3 Folder 14 Colloquium Schedules, 1979-1985



Box 3 Folder 15 Colloquium Assignments, 1978

Periodicals



Box 3 Folder 16 Colloquium, 1984

Course Notes



Box 3 Folder 17 General Correspondence [1 of 10], 1949



Box 3 Folder 18 General Correspondence [2 of 10], 1950



Box 3 Folder 19 General Correspondence [3 of 10], 1951



Box 3 Folder 20 General Correspondence [4 of 10], 1952



Box 3 Folder 21 General Correspondence [5 of 10], 1953



Box 3 Folder 22 General Correspondence [6 of 10], 1954



Box 3 Folder 23 General Correspondence [7 of 10], 1955



Box 3 Folder 24 General Correspondence [8 of 10], 1956



Box 3 Folder 25 General Correspondence [9 of 10], 1957



Box 3 Folder 26 General Correspondence [10 of 10], 1958



Box 3 Folder 27 General Papers, 1949-1980



Box 3 Folder 28 General Material, 1976-1980



Box 3 Folder 29 Lecture Notes, 1962-1963

Russian Art



Box 3 Folder 30 Seminar Notes, 1965

"Frank Lloyd Wright: Aspects of Creativity and Eclecticism in his Works"



Box 3 Folder 31 Miscellaneous Research Papers, undated

"On Thinking About Future World Order" By: Robert W Cox; "Utopian Views of War and Peace" By: Elisabeth Hansot

Series II: Modern Architecture Symposium

Series II is comprised of three subseries: The first subseries includes material relating to the 1962 Modern Architecture Symposium. There are papers regarding the planning and financial arrangements of the Symposium as well as the publication of its proceedings. There are also individual files containing correspondence and the papers delivered by speakers. The second subseries includes material relating to the 1964 Modern Architecture Symposium. There are papers regarding the planning and financial arrangements of the Symposium as well as the publication of the proceedings. There are also individual files containing correspondence and the papers delivered by speakers. The third subseries includes material relating to the 1966 Modern Architecture Symposium. There are papers regarding the planning and financial arrangements of the Symposium as well as the publication of the proceedings. There are also individual files containing correspondence and the papers delivered by speakers.


Subseries 1: MAS 1962



Box 3 Folder 32 Planning and Arrangements, 1962



Box 3 Folder 33 to 34 Publication and Planning, 1962



Box 3 Folder 35 Finances and Financing, 1962



Box 3 Folder 36 Exhibition List, 1962



Box 3 Folder 37 Distribution Lists, 1962



Box 3 Folder 38 Mailings, 1962



Box 3 Folder 39 Individual Files [1 of 12], 1962

Allen Brooks



Box 3 Folder 40 Individual Files [2 of 12], 1962

Theodore M Brown



Box 3 Folder 41 Individual Files [3 of 12], 1962

Walter Creese



Box 3 Folder 42 Individual Files [4 of 12], 1962

Peter Collins



Box 3 Folder 43 Individual Files [5 of 12], 1962

Philip Johnson



Box 3 Folder 44 Individual Files [6 of 12], 1962

Edgar Kaufmann Jr.



Box 3 Folder 45 Individual Files [7 of 12], 1962

Henry Millon



Box 3 Folder 46 Individual Files [8 of 12], 1962

Henry Russell Hitchcock



Box 3 Folder 47 Individual Files [9 of 12], 1962

J.M. Richards



Box 3 Folder 48 Individual Files [10 of 12], 1962

Everard Upjohn



Box 3 Folder 49 Individual Files [11 of 12], 1962

Peter Serenyi



Box 3 Folder 50 Individual Files [12 of 12], 1962

Bruno Zevi



Box 3 Folder 51 Proceedings, 1962

Proof Copy



Box 3 Folder 52 Proceedings, 1962

Corrections by: A. Barr, A Brooks, and T. Brown



Box 3 Folder 53 Proceedings, 1962

Corrections by: G. Collins, P. Collins and T. Brown



Box 3 Folder 54 Proceedings, 1962

Corrections by: E. Kaufmann, H. Millon , and S. Moholy-Nagy



Box 3 Folder 55 Proceedings, 1962

Corrections by: H-R Hitchcock, J. Jacobus, P. Johnson



Box 3 Folder 56 Proceedings, 1962

Corrections by: M. Peisch, R. Rosenblum, and E. Santomasso



Box 3 Folder 57 Proceedings, 1962

Corrections by: P. Serenyi, R Sherwood, and S. Shuloff



Box 4 Folder 1 Proceedings, 1962

File copy



Box 4 Folder 2 Proceedings, 1962



Box 4 Folder 3 Proceedings, 1962

Draft copy



Box 4 Folder 4 Proceedings, 1962



Box 4 Folder 5 Proceedings, 1962

Third Printing



Box 4 Folder 6 Proceedings, 1962

Final manuscript for Stencil Cutting



Box 4 Folder 7 General Records, 1964



Box 4 Folder 8 Post-Conference Correspondence, 1964

Adolf Placzek to K.P. Zygas


Subseries 2: MAS 1964



Box 4 Folder 9 Planning and Arrangements, 1964



Box 4 Folder 10 to 11 Publication and Planning, 1964



Box 4 Folder 12 Publication, 1964

Corrections by: G. Collins, and A. Placzek for Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians



Box 4 Folder 13 Finances and Financing, 1964

Finances and Financing



Box 4 Folder 14 Slide and Image Lists, 1964



Box 4 Folder 15 Mailings, 1964



Box 4 Folder 16 Individual Files [1 of 33], 1964

Stanford Anderson



Box 4 Folder 17 Individual Files [2 of 33], 1964

Alfred Barr



Box 4 Folder 18 Individual Files [3 of 33], 1964

Allen Brooks



Box 4 Folder 19 Individual Files [4 of 33], 1964

Peter Collins



Box 4 Folder 20 Individual Files [5 of 33], 1964

Walter Creese



Box 4 Folder 21 Individual Files [6 of 33], 1964

James Fitch



Box 4 Folder 22 Individual Files [7 of 33], 1964

David Gebhard



Box 4 Folder 23 Individual Files [8 of 33], 1964

Wilder Green



Box 4 Folder 24 Individual Files [9 of 33], 1964

Henry Russell Hitchcock



Box 4 Folder 25 Individual Files [10 of 33], 1964

Ada Louise Huxtable



Box 4 Folder 26 Individual Files [11 of 33], 1964

John Jacobus



Box 4 Folder 27 Individual Files [12 of 33], 1964

Philip Johnson



Box 4 Folder 28 Individual Files [13 of 33], 1964

William Jordy



Box 4 Folder 29 Individual Files [14 of 33], 1964

Elizabeth Kassler



Box 4 Folder 30 Individual Files [15 of 33], 1964

Edgar Kaufmann Jr.



Box 4 Folder 31 Individual Files [16 of 33], 1964

John McAndrew



Box 4 Folder 32 Individual Files [17 of 33], 1964

Carroll Meeks



Box 4 Folder 33 Individual Files [18 of 33], 1964

Henry Millon



Box 4 Folder 34 Individual Files [19 of 33], 1964

Sibyl Moholy-Nagy



Box 4 Folder 35 Individual Files [20 of 33], 1964

Paul Norten



Box 4 Folder 36 Individual Files [21 of 33], 1964

Mark Peisch



Box 4 Folder 37 Individual Files [22 of 33], 1964

Robert Rosenblum



Box 4 Folder 38 Individual Files [23 of 33], 1964

Colin Rowe



Box 4 Folder 39 Individual Files [24 of 33], 1964

Vincent Scully



Box 4 Folder 40 Individual Files [25 of 33], 1964

Eduard Sekuer



Box 4 Folder 41 Individual Files [26 of 33], 1964

Patricia May Sekler



Box 4 Folder 42 Individual Files [27 of 33], 1964

Peter Serenyi



Box 4 Folder 43 Individual Files [28 of 33], 1964

Robert Stren



Box 4 Folder 44 Individual Files [29 of 33], 1964

George B Tatum



Box 4 Folder 45 Individual Files [30 of 33], 1964

Rudolph Wittkower



Box 4 Folder 46 Individual Files [31 of 33], 1964

Colin St. John Wilson



Box 4 Folder 47 Individual Files [32 of 33], 1964

William Wurster



Box 4 Folder 48 Individual Files [33 of 33], 1964

Bruno Zevi



Box 4 Folder 49 Preliminary Statements, 1964

Spain: A Case Study In Action And Reaction -George Collins, The Spread of Technology: 1929-1939-James M. Fitch, The Decade: 1929-1939- Henry Russell Hitchcock, The "International Style" In The Thirties-William Jordy, Frank Lloyd Wright's Years of Modernism, 1925-1935-Edgar Kaufmann Jr, The Diaspora-Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, City-Planning Theory in Nazi Germany of the 1930s-Christian Otto, Modern Architecture and Architectural Criticism in the USA 1929-1939- Mark L Peisch, A Brief Review of the Decade's Architectural Literature- Adolf K Placzek, Le Corbusier's Changing Attitude Toward Form (A Summary)-Peter Serenyu, Relevance of The Decade- Robert A.M. Stern, The Social Front of Modern Architecture in the 1930s-CAtherine Bauer Wurster



Box 4 Folder 50 Statements, 1964

Spain: A Case Study In Action And Reaction -George Collins, The Spread of Technology: 1929-1939-James M. Fitch, The Decade: 1929-1939- Henry Russell Hitchcock, The "International Style" In The Thirties-William Jordy, Frank Lloyd Wright's Years of Modernism, 1925-1935-Edgar Kaufmann Jr, The Diaspora-Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, City-Planning Theory in Nazi Germany of the 1930s-Christian Otto, Modern Architecture and Architectural Criticism in the USA 1929-1939- Mark L Peisch, A Brief Review of the Decade's Architectural Literature- Adolf K Placzek, Le Corbusier's Changing Attitude Toward Form (A Summary)-Peter Serenyu, Relevance of The Decade- Robert A.M. Stern, The Social Front of Modern Architecture in the 1930s-CAtherine Bauer Wurster



Box 4 Folder 51 Proceedings, 1964



Box 4 Folder 52 Proceedings, 1964

Author Corrections of Transcriptions



Box 4 Folder 53 Proceedings, 1964

Author Corrections of Transcriptions



Box 4 Folder 54 Proceedings, 1964



Box 4 Folder 55 Proceedings, 1964



Box 4 Folder 56 Proceedings, 1964

Printer's Copy 1 of 2



Box 4 Folder 57 Proceedings, 1964

Printer's Copy 2 of 2



Box 5 Folder 1 Proceedings, 1964

Tape Transcription



Box 5 Folder 2 Proceedings, 1964

JSAH Reprint Unbound



Box 5 Folder 3 Proceedings, 1966

JSAH Report



Box 5 Folder 4 Post-Conference Correspondence, 1966


Subseries 3: MAS 1966



Box 5 to 10 Folder 5 Planning and Arrangements, 1966



Box 5 Folder 11 to 12 Publication and Planning, 1966



Box 5 Folder 13 to 14 Finances and Financing, 1966



Box 5 Folder 15 Slide Lists, 1966



Box 5 Folder 16 Mailings, 1966



Box 5 Folder 17 to 18 Program, 1966



Box 5 Folder 19 Signs and Posters, 1966



Box 5 Folder 20 Exhibit, 1966



Box 5 Folder 21 Opening Remarks, 1966



Box 5 Folder 22 Individual Files [1 of 27], 1966

Stanford Anderson



Box 5 Folder 23 Individual Files [2 of 27], 1966

Reyner Banham



Box 5 Folder 24 Individual Files [3 of 27], 1966

Theodore M Brown



Box 5 Folder 25 Individual Files [4 of 27], 1966

Allen Brooks



Box 5 Folder 26 Individual Files [5 of 27], 1966

Robert Judson Clark



Box 5 Folder 27 Individual Files [6 of 27], 1966

George Collins



Box 5 Folder 28 Individual Files [7 of 27], 1966

Peter Collins



Box 5 Folder 29 Individual Files [8 of 27], 1966

Walter Creese



Box 5 Folder 30 Individual Files [9 of 27], 1966

Arthur Drexler



Box 5 Folder 31 Individual Files [10 of 27], 1966

Leonard Eaton



Box 5 Folder 32 Individual Files [11 of 27], 1966

Wolf von Eckardt



Box 5 Folder 33 Individual Files [12 of 27], 1966

Wilder Green



Box 5 Folder 34 Individual Files [13 of 27], 1966

Henry Russell Hitchcock



Box 5 Folder 35 Individual Files [14 of 27], 1966

Philip Johnson



Box 5 Folder 36 Individual Files [15 of 27], 1966

Edgar Kaufmann Jr.



Box 5 Folder 37 Individual Files [16 of 27], 1966

Henry Millon



Box 5 Folder 38 Individual Files [17 of 27], 1966

Adolf Placzek



Box 5 Folder 39 Individual Files [18 of 27], 1966

Colin Rowe



Box 5 Folder 40 Individual Files [19 of 27], 1966

Robert Rosenblum



Box 5 Folder 41 Individual Files [20 of 27], 1966

Eugene Santomasso



Box 5 Folder 42 Individual Files [21 of 27], 1966

Joseph Shelley



Box 5 Folder 43 Individual Files [22 of 27], 1966

Paul E Sprague



Box 5 Folder 44 Individual Files [23 of 27], 1966

Winston R Weisman



Box 5 Folder 45 Individual Files [24 of 27], 1966

Adolf Placzek



Box 5 Folder 46 Individual Files [25 of 27], 1966

Colin St. John Wilson



Box 5 Folder 47 Individual Files [26 of 27], 1966

William Wurster



Box 5 Folder 48 Individual Files [27 of 27], 1966

Bruno Zevi



Box 5 Folder 49 to 50 Proceedings, 1966

George Collins Corrections



Box 5 Folder 51 to 52 Proceedings, undated

Carbon Copy

Series III: Braziller Papers

Series III is comprised of five subseries: The first subseries includes proposals, draft pages, correspondence, and illustrations relating to the publication of Socialist Planning in the Cities of Eastern Europe. The second subseries includes correspondence, suggested chapters, author contracts, draft pages, and layout considerations relating to the writing and publication of Planning and Cities. The third subseries includes files on individual authors. The fourth subseries includes book proposals. The fifth subseries includes correspondences, reviews of publications and publicity for George Braziller, Inc.


Subseries 1: Socialist Planning in the Cities of Eastern Europe



Box 5 Folder 53 Proposals, 1966-1972



Box 5 Folder 54 Correspondence, 1968, 1978-1979



Box 5 Folder 55 Translation, undated



Box 5 Folder 56 Introduction and Preface, undated



Box 5 Folder 57 Draft Pages, undated



Box 5 Folder 58 Illustrations, undated



Box 5 Folder 59 General Papers, undated


Subseries 2: Planning and Cities



Box 5 Folder 61 Correspondence, 1966, 1970-1971

Jaqueline Tyrwhitt



Box 5 Folder 62 Correspondence, 1966, 1968, 1971-1974



Box 5 Folder 63 Planning Prospectus, 1966-1967



Box 6 Folder 64 Instructions to Authors, 1966-1967



Box 6 Folder 1 Contracts, 1966-1967, 1972-1973



Box 6 Folder 2 Promotion and Reviews, 1967-1968, 1969-1970, 1973

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Box 6 Folder 3 Suggestions and Proposals for Chapters, 1967



Box 6 Folder 4 Book Layout, 1967-1968



Box 6 Folder 5 Preface, 1968-1969



Box 6 Folder 6 Book Jacket and Design, 1968-1969



Box 6 Folder 7 Draft Pages, undated



Box 6 Folder 8 1980s Proposals, 1981


Subseries 3: Individual Files



Box 6 Folder 9 Mircea Eliade, 1966



Box 6 Folder 10 Norma Evenson, 1969



Box 6 Folder 11 Francis L. Fergueson, 1972



Box 6 Folder 12 Kurt Forster, 1970-1973



Box 6 Folder 13 Josef Konvitz, 1973-1977



Box 6 Folder 14 Ervin Y.Gakantay, 1968-1974



Box 6 Folder 15 Thomas Hines, 1972-1978



Box 6 Folder 16 Jonathan Lane, 1974-1979



Box 6 Folder 17 Mark B. Lapping, 1970-1972



Box 6 Folder 18 Henry Millon, 1966-1969



Box 6 Folder 19 Erwin Walter Palm, 1970-1973



Box 6 Folder 20 Robert Serge, 1970-1982



Box 6 Folder 21 Arthur Sprague, 1966-1967



Box 6 Folder 22 to 23 Paul Speiregen, 1971-1972, undated



Box 6 Folder 24 to 27 Anthony Vidler, 1970-1971, undated



Box 6 Folder 28 John Ward, 1966-1975


Subseries 4: Book Proposals



Box 6 Folder 29 Published, 1968-1976



Box 6 Folder 30 to 31 Rejects, 1968-1976


Subseries 5: General Material



Box 6 Folder 32 Correspondence, 1966-1985



Box 6 Folder 33 Reviews, 1968-1972



Box 6 Folder 34 Publicity, 1970-1985

Series IV: Columbia History of Architecture

Series IV is comprised of material relating to the publication of the Columbia History of Architecture. There are files containing suggested chapters and authors, preliminary instructions to selected authors, chapters regarding prehistoric, primitive, and Pre Columbian architecture, the architecture of Egypt and the Far East, the Architecture of Greater India and South East Asia, Roman Architecture, Gothic Architecture, Mannerism and Classicism, Baroque architecture, the architecture of the United States, and modern architecture. There is also correspondence between Collins and various authors as well as correspondence between Collins and the editors at George Braziller, Inc.



Box 6 Folder 35 Suggested Chapters and Authors, undated



Box 6 Folder 36 Preliminary Instructions to Authors, 1962



Box 6 Folder 37 Prehistoric, Primitive, and Pre Columbian Architecture, undated



Box 6 Folder 38 Architecture of Egypt and the Far East, undated



Box 6 Folder 39 Architecture of Greater India and South East Asia, 1961



Box 6 Folder 40 Photographs, undated

Burma and Cambodia



Box 6 Folder 41 Roman Architecture, 1961



Box 6 Folder 42 Gothic Architecture, 1961



Box 7 Folder 1 Mannerism and Classicism, 1961



Box 7 Folder 2 Baroque Architecture, 1961



Box 7 Folder 3 Architecture of the United States, 1961



Box 7 Folder 4 Modern Architecture, 1961



Box 7 Folder 5 Correspondence, 1970, 1976

Correspondence with Peter Serenyi



Box 7 Folder 6 Correspondence, 1961

Correspondence with William B. Dinsmoor



Box 7 Folder 7 General Correspondence, 1956, 1960-1961, 1963-1965, undated



Box 7 Folder 8 Praeger INC., undated

Series V: Russian Papers

Series V is comprised of five subseries: The first subseries includes material relating to the publication of N.A. Miliutin's Sotsgorod: The Problem of building Socialist Cities. The text was translated from Russian to English by Arthur Sprague as part of his dissertation research. Collins, who served as Sprague's dissertation advisor, edited the translated text. There are files containing the edited manuscript, various drafts, and correspondence. The second subseries includes a selection of Arthur Sprague's graduate school work. There are files containing Sprague's master's essay, as well as various other writings on Soviet architecture. There is also correspondence between George Collins and Sprague, research notes, newspaper clippings. The third subseries includes copies of the papers delivered during the 1974 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and Columbia University Russian Institute's Conference on "The Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1933." The fourth subseries includes numerous papers authored by Frederick Starr, an American expert of Russian and Eurasain affairs. There are also images for Starr's book Melnikov Solo Architect in a Mass Society, and correspondence between Starr and Collins. The fifth subseries is comprised of general material including newspaper clippings, journal articles, and numerous writings about Soviet architecture and city planning.


Subseries 1: Sotsgorod: The Problems of Building Socialist Cities



Box 7 Folder 9 Base Notes, undated



Box 7 Folder 10 Miscellaneous Notes, undated



Box 7 Folder 11 Russian Text, undated



Box 7 Folder 13 Text, undated



Box 7 Folder 14 English Translation, undated



Box 7 Folder 15 Introduction Drafts, undated



Box 7 Folder 16 to 17 Edited Text [1 of 2], undated



Box 7 Folder 18 Edited Manuscript, undated



Box 7 Folder 19 Edited Manuscript, undated



Box 7 Folder 20 Edited Manuscript, undated



Box 7 Folder 21 Edited Manuscript [1 of 2], undated



Box 7 Folder 22 Edited Manuscript [2 of 2], undated



Box 7 Folder 23 Edited Manuscript, undated



Box 7 Folder 24 Corrections, 1973



Box 7 Folder 25 Stalingrad: Linear City, undated



Box 7 Folder 26 Early Book Layout, undated



Box 7 Folder 27 Book Layout, undated



Box 7 Folder 28 Book Jacket and Design, undated



Box 7 Folder 29 Photoduplicating Services, 1974



Box 7 Folder 30 Sotsgorod Photographs, undated



Box 14 Folder 1 Page Layouts, 1974



Box 14 Folder 2 Draft Pages, 1974



Box 14 Folder 3 Index, 1974



Box 7 Folder 31 Publicity, 1974



Box 8 Folder 1 MIT Press, 1975

Including reviews of the book



Box 8 Folder 2 General Material, 1977-1980



Box 8 Folder 3 Correspondence [1 of 3], 1970-1975

Correspondence with MIT Press personnel including: Michael Connolly, Barbara Levy, and Ed Argo



Box 8 Folder 4 Correspondence [2 of 3], 1970-1978-1974, 197

Includes Correspondence with Katherine Burger Sprague, Frederick Starr, and Catherine Cook



Box 8 Folder 5 Correspondence [3 of 3], 1967-1975

General Correspondence


Subseries 2: Arthur Sprague



Box 8 Folder 6 "Nikolai Aleksandrovich Miliutin: Soviet Town Planner and Architect, 1961



Box 8 Folder 7 "Kandinsky and Malevich", 1962



Box 8 Folder 8 "Kandinsky and Malevich", 1962

Graded



Box 8 Folder 9 "The Modern Movement in Architecture", 1964



Box 8 Folder 10 "Constructivism and Cosmopolitism in Soviet Architecture and Town Planning, undated



Box 8 Folder 11 "Ivan Leonidov 1902-1960", undated



Box 8 Folder 12 "Constructivism In Soviet Architecture", undated



Box 8 Folder 13 "Iakov Chernikov: The Last Constructivist"

Graded



Box 8 Folder 14 Writings on Konstantin Melnikov, undated

Some material in Russian



Box 8 Folder 15 "Sotsgorod and Linear Planning in the USSR", undated

Russian Text



Box 8 Folder 16 Marx Monument, undated



Box 8 Folder 17 USSR Study Plan, 1962



Box 8 Folder 18 Master's Essay, undated



Box 8 Folder 19 Master's Essay Draft, 1962



Box 8 Folder 20 Master's Essay Chapters and Appendices, 1962



Box 8 Folder 21 Outline of Dissertation, undated



Box 8 Folder 22 Sotsgorod Translation, undated



Box 8 Folder 23 "The Problems of Building Socialist Cities", undated



Box 8 Folder 24 Brothers Vesnin Catalog, 1964



Box 8 Folder 25 Photographs, undated

Photographs of Ily Golosov's Architecture



Box 8 Folder 26 Application to the Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants, undated



Box 8 Folder 27 Correspondence with George Collins, 1961-1962, 1964-1968

Divided by date



Box 8 Folder 28 Correspondence regarding Sprague, 1961, 1962, 1964,1967, 1975

Divided by author



Box 8 Folder 29 Marriage Announcement, 1965



Box 8 Folder 30 "Art, Rubles, and Dollars", 1962



Box 8 Folder 31 Moisei Iakovlevich Ginzburg Research, 1970



Box 8 Folder 32 "Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel: The Demon and the Prophet", undated



Box 8 Folder 33 Nikolai Aleksandrovich Miliutin Paper and Articles, 1961



Box 8 Folder 34 "Constructivism and Academicism in Soviet Architecture", undated



Box 14 Folder 4 Research Notes, undated



Box 14 Folder 5 "Voks and its Problems", undated



Box 14 Folder 6 Draft Pages, undated



Box 8 Folder 35 "Nikolai Nikolaevich (1831-1894), Academic Painting in Russia in the Nineteenth Century", 1962



Box 14 Folder 7 Notes, Notes



Box 14 Folder 8 "Soviet Architecture", undated



Box 14 Folder 9 "Sotsgorod and Linearism in the USSR (1928-1931), undated


Subseries 3: Conference Papers



Box 8 Folder 36 "Little Heroes and Big Deeds: Literature Responds to the First Five-Year Plan", 1974

By: Katerina Clark, Wesleyan University



Box 8 Folder 37 "The Soviet Metallurgical Industry 1929-1941", 1974

By: Samuel Lieberstein, Temple University



Box 8 Folder 38 "Pashukanis and the Withering Away of Law in the USSR, 1974

By: Robert Sharlet, Union College



Box 8 Folder 39 "The Anti-Urban Utopias of Early Stalinist Russia", 1974

By: S. Frederick Starr, Princeton University



Box 8 Folder 40 "Educational Policy and Cultural Revolution: V.N. Shulgin and the 'Withering Away of the School'", 1974

By: Gail Warshofsky Lapidus, The Hoover Institution



Box 8 Folder 41 "The Psychoneutological Sciences and the Construction of Socialism", 1974

By: David Joravsky, Northwestern University



Box 8 Folder 42 "Cultural Revolution and the Creation of a New Technical Intelligentsia", 1974



Box 9 Folder 1 "Comments on David Joravasky's and Kendall Baile's Papers", 1974

By: Loren Graham, Columbia University



Box 9 Folder 2 "Soviet Historians During the First-Five-Year Plan", 1974

By. George M. Enteen



Box 9 Folder 3 "Class, State and Ideology in the Piatiletka", 1974

By: M. Lewin



Box 9 Folder 4 "Cultural Revolution as Class War", 1974

By: Sheila Fitzpatrick



Box 9 Folder 5 "Urbanization in Russia and the USSR: 1897-1966, 1974

By: Robert A. Lewis and Richard H. Rowland, Columbia University



Box 9 Folder 6 Untitled, 1974

By: Kendall E. Bailes, University of California at Irvine


Subseries 4: Frederick Starr



Box 9 Folder 7 "Architecture and Minor Arts", 1959



Box 9 Folder 8 "Architecture in the Soviet Union", 1963



Box 9 Folder 9 Some Observations on Russian Design, 1966



Box 9 Folder 10 Konstantin Melnikov, 1969



Box 9 Folder 11 "The Evolution of the Contemporary Idiom", undated



Box 9 Folder 12 "The Anti-Urban Utopias of Early Stalinist Russia", 1974



Box 9 Folder 13 "The Revival and Schism of Urban Planning in the Twentieth Century Russia", undated



Box 9 Folder 14 "The Union of Contemporary Architects", undated



Box 9 Folder 15 The Princeton Plan, 1970



Box 9 Folder 16 "City Planning in Russia: The Development of Odessa, 1789-1892", 1974



Box 9 Folder 17 Correspondence, 1968-1970, 1972-1974, 1978, undated



Box 9 Folder 18 Images for "Melnikov Solo Architect in a Mass Society" [1 of 2], undated



Box 9 Folder 19 Images for "Melnikov Solo Architect in a Mass Society" [2 of 2], undated



Box 9 Folder 20 General Material, 1970, 1974


Subseries 5: General Material



Box 9 Folder 21 Soviet Architecture Articles, 1972



Box 9 Folder 22 Soviet Art Articles and Reviews of Shows [1 of 2], 1961, 1968, 1970-1975, 1977, 1979-1980



Box 9 Folder 23 Soviet Art Articles and Reviews of Shows [2 of 2], undated



Box 9 Folder 24 Newspaper Clippings [1 of 4], 1965-1969



Box 9 Folder 25 Newspaper Clippings [2 of 4], 1970-1974



Box 9 Folder 26 Newspaper Clippings [3 of 4], 1975-1979



Box 9 Folder 27 Newspaper Clippings [4 of 4], 1980-1988, undated



Box 9 Folder 28 Journal Clippings, 1975-1981



Box 14 Folder 10 Journal Clippings, 1968



Box 14 Folder 11 Newspaper Clippings, 1967, 1971, 1985



Box 14 Folder 12 Soviet Life, 1974-1975



Box 14 Folder 13 New York Times Clippings, 1967



Box 14 Folder 14 Articles About Soviet Architecture, 1983



Box 9 Folder 29 Notes, 1968, 1971, 1977-1978



Box 9 Folder 30 Correspondence, 1961, 1963, 1968-1974, 1978, 1982

Includes correspondence with Anatole Senkevitch, Jr., Kitty Burger, Marshall D. Shulman, Hibbard.



Box 9 Folder 31 Nikolay Alexanrovich Miliutin, undated



Box 9 Folder 32 "The Political Economy of Soviet New Towns,", 1979

By T.J. Colton, University of Toronto



Box 9 Folder 33 "St. Petersburg", undated

By: Anatole Senkevitch, Jr.



Box 9 Folder 34 "Architecture in the Soviet Union", 1963



Box 9 Folder 35 "Concentric Circles: Russian History and Soviet Architecture", 1966

By: Karl A. Maier



Box 9 Folder 36 "The Arts in the Soviet Union", 1960



Box 14 Folder 15 Articles about Warsaw, 1980-1983



Box 9 Folder 37 "Town Design: Theories of Planning Towns", 1965

Series VI: Other Projects

Series VI is comprised of material that Collins collected during the 1981 XIV Congress of the International Union of Architects, which was held in Warsaw, Poland. There is a series of general correspondence divided alphabetically that date from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. There is a series of folders containing photocopies, correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, and exhibition material regarding Avery Library's collection of children's drawings of the Spanish Civil War. There is also a series of files relating to the Guastavino family including correspondence between Collins and Bob Guastavino, numerous articles, newspaper clippings, and writings. The final grouping of material in this series is comprised of notes written by Collins on various matters.



Box 9 Folder 38 XIV Congress of the International Union of Architects [1 of 10], 1980-1981, 1983

Correspondence



Box 10 Folder 39 XIV Congress of the International Union of Architects [2 of 10], 1981

Conference Material



Box 10 Folder 40 XIV Congress of the International Union of Architects [3 of 10], 1981

Conference Material



Box 10 Folder 1 XIV Congress of the International Union of Architects [4 of 10], 1981

Conference Material



Box 10 Folder 2 XIV Congress of the International Union of Architects [5 of 10], 1981

Conference Photographs



Box 10 Folder 3 XIV Congress of the International Union of Architects [6 of 10], 1979, 1981-1983, 1985

Newspaper clippings



Box 10 Folder 4 XIV Congress of the International Union of Architects [7 of 10], 1981

Poland tourism information



Box 10 Folder 5 XIV Congress of the International Union of Architects [8 of 10], 1981

Conference Material



Box 10 Folder 6 XIV Congress of the International Union of Architects [9 of 10], 1981

General Material



Box 10 Folder 7 XIV Congress of the International Union of Architects [10 of 10], 1980-1981

General Material



Box 10 Folder 8 Correspondence 'A'-'B', 1961-1984

Includes correspondence with Pierre Bourdelle, and Reyner Banaham (see also Box 5, Folder 23)



Box 10 Folder 9 Correspondence 'C', 1959-1982

Includes correspondence with Peter Collins (see also Box 3 Folder 39, Box 4 Folder 19, Box 5 Folder 29)



Box 10 Folder 10 Correspondence 'D'-'H', 1959-1984



Box 10 Folder 11 Correspondence 'K', 1958-1986

Includes correspondence with Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. (see also Box 5, Folder 36; Box 4, Folder 32; Box 3, Folder 43)



Box 10 Folder 12 Correspondence 'L', 1967-1982



Box 10 Folder 13 Correspondence 'M', 1962-1983



Box 10 Folder 14 Correspondence 'P', 1962-1980



Box 10 Folder 15 Correspondence 'R', 1977-1984



Box 10 Folder 16 Correspondence 'S', 1962-1983



Box 10 Folder 17 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [1 of 14], undated

Avery's collection of Children's Drawing of the Civil War, including photocopies of selected drawings.



Box 10 Folder 18 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [2 of 14], undated

Photocopies of children's' drawing.



Box 10 Folder 19 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [3 of 14], 1977-1985

Correspondence regarding Museo del Prado's exhibition of children's drawing of the Spanish Civil War.



Box 11 Folder 1 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [4 of 14], 1984-1986

Correspondence regarding the Spanish Institute's 1986 exhibition of the Children's Drawing of the Spanish Civil War.



Box 11 Folder 2 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [5 of 14], 1986

Exhibition material and material from galas held at the Spanish Institute



Box 11 Folder 3 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [6 of 14], undated

The Spanish Institute's invitation mailing list.



Box 11 Folder 4 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [7 of 14], 1986

Collins' essay for the Spanish Institute's 1986 exhibition of the Children's Drawings from the Spanish Civil War.



Box 11 Folder 5 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [8 of 14], 1986

Reviews of the 1986 Spanish Institute's exhibit of Spanish Drawings of the Spanish Civil War



Box 11 Folder 6 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [9 of 14], 198-1985

Material regarding the Abraham Lincoln Brigade



Box 11 Folder 7 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [10 of 14], 1938-39 1981-1987

Newspaper articles on the Spanish Civil War, Newspaper articles on the political history of Spain



Box 11 Folder 8 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [11 of 14], 1937-39 1954 1978

Journal and magazine articles



Box 11 Folder 9 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [12 of 14], undated

Miscellaneous notes.



Box 11 Folder 10 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [13 of 14], undated

Material regarding Luis Quintanilla



Box 11 Folder 11 Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War [14 of 14], 1986

Other material.



Box 11 Folder 12 Guastavino Family Files [1 of 18], 1962-1970

Correspondence between George R. Collins and Bob Guastavino and others.



Box 11 Folder 13 Guastavino Family Files [2 of 18], 1971-1979

Correspondence between George R. Collins and Bob Guastavino and others.



Box 11 Folder 14 Guastavino Family Files [3 of 18], 1864-1931

Books and Articles by William E. Blodgett also obituaries



Box 11 Folder 15 Guastavino Family Files [4 of 18], undated

Negatives of the Rafael Guastavino Jr. House



Box 11 Folder 16 Guastavino Family Files [5 of 18], undated

"The Guastavino Family" by: Rafael Guastavino IV



Box 11 Folder 17 Guastavino Family Files [6 of 18], 1976

Edited manuscript of "The Guastavino Family"



Box 11 Folder 18 Guastavino Family Files [7 of 18], 1980-1981



Box 11 Folder 19 Guastavino Family Files [8 of 18], 1977, 1981

Correspondence with Luis Moya [Madrid] regarding Guastavino Album



Box 11 Folder 20 Guastavino Family Files [9 of 18], 1978

Theodore HM Prudon "Architectural Terra Cotta: Analyzing the Deterioration Problems & Restoration Approaches.



Box 11 Folder 21 Guastavino Family Files [10 of 18], 1975-1976 1978 1988

Newspaper clippings



Box 11 Folder 22 Guastavino Family Files [11 of 18], undated

Article titled "Sr. D.R. Guastavino" in Spanish



Box 11 Folder 23 Guastavino Family Files [12 of 18], 1964

Article titled "A Name in Tiles: The Architect Guastavino"



Box 11 Folder 24 Guastavino Family Files [13 of 18], 1927

Article titles "A Large Dome Built Without Centering"



Box 11 Folder 25 Guastavino Family Files [14 of 18], 1953

Squib from Valencia newspaper



Box 11 Folder 26 Guastavino Family Files [15 of 18], 1929

Untitled article on Guastavino construction technology



Box 11 Folder 27 Guastavino Family Files [16 of 18], 1893, 1906, 1910, 1931, 1962, 1975, 1988, 1990

Photocopied articles



Box 11 Folder 28 Guastavino Family Files [17 of 18], undated

Miscellaneous notes.



Box 14 Folder 16 Guastavino Family Files [18 of 18], 1838, 1873, 1889-1890, 1895. 1897-98 1903-04

Photocopied articles



Box 11 Folder 29 Notes [1 of 3], undated



Box 11 Folder 30 Notes [2 of 3], undated



Box 11 Folder 31 Notes [3 of 3], undated

Series VII: Visual Material

Series VII includes photographs taken during the 1962, 1964, and 1966 Modern Architecture Symposium, photographs of Soviet Architecture, photographs taken during an architecture studio review, and photographs of the Frank Lloyd Wright Humanities Exhibit. There are also numerous slides of Russian architecture as well as a series contact sheets and negatives.



Box 11 Folder 32 Modern Architecture Symposium Photographs [1 of 3], undated



Box 11 Folder 33 Modern Architecture Symposium Photographs [2 of 3], undated



Box 12 Folder 1 Modern Architecture Symposium Photographs [3 of 3], undated



Box 11 Folder 2 Soviet Architecture Photographs [1 of 7], undated



Box 11 Folder 3 Soviet Architecture Photographs [2 of 7], undated



Box 11 Folder 4 Soviet Architecture Photographs [3 of 7], undated



Box 11 Folder 5 Soviet Architecture Photographs [4 of 7], undated



Box 11 Folder 6 Soviet Architecture Photographs [5 of 7], undated



Box 12 Folder 7 Soviet Architecture Photographs [6 of 7], undated



Box 12 Folder 8 Soviet Architecture Photographs [7 of 7], undated



Box 12 Folder 9 Architecture Studio Photographs, undated



Box 12 Folder 10 Frank Lloyd Wright Humanities Exhibit, undated



Box 12 Folder 11 Designs for Beauty and Use, 1961-1968



Box 12 Folder 12 Hybrid Buildings, undated



Box 12 Folder 13 Russian Slides [1 of 4], 1967

121 slides.



Box 12 Folder 14 Russian Slides [2 of 4], 1985

131 slides.



Box 12 Folder 15 Russian Slides [3 of 4], undated

88 slides.



Box 12 Folder 16 Russian Slides [4 of 4], undated

32 slides.



Box 12 Folder 17 Russian Slides [1 of 2], undated

120 slides.



Box 12 Folder 18 Russian Slides [2 of 2], undated

127 slides.



Box 12 Folder 19 Contact Sheets, undated



Box 12 Folder 20 Modern Architecture Symposium, 1964

Negatives



Box 12 Folder 21 Negatives, undated

294 negative sheets



Box 12 Folder 22 Negatives, undated

163 negative sheets



Box 12 Folder 23 Negatives, undated

Modern Architecture Symposium

Series VIII: Audio Material

Series VIII is comprised of eight tape reels that contain the audio recording of the 1966 Modern Architecture Symposium. The Third Modern Architecture Symposium took place at Columbia University in New York May 14-15, 1966. The decade 1907-1917 was discussed. Henry-Russell Hitchcock was Chairman and member of the organizing committee. An additional member of that committee was George Collins.



Box 12 Folder 24 Modern Architecture Symposium, 1966 May 14, 2 open reel audiotapes

Speakers: George Collins, Henry-Russell Hitchock, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Allen Brooks,



Box 13 Folder 1 Modern Architecture Symposium, 1966

Two tape reels



Box 13 Folder 2 Modern Architecture Symposium, 1966

Two tape reels



Box 13 Folder 3 Modern Architecture Symposium, 1966

Two tape reels