This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. Unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are available onsite via links in the container list. All original copies of audio / moving image media are closed. Email avery-drawings@columbia.edu for more information.
*This finding aid replaces the former finding aid created in 1993-1994 by Mary L. Ferranti as part of the ʺModern Masters Project,ʺ funded by an HEA Title II‐C grant. The previous finding aid described the papers from the first donation only and has been superseded by this current finding aid. For material referenced in this former finding aid, please consult this downloadable conversion chart to locate the material in its current arrangement.* .
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, clippings, postcards, newsletters, publications, student and architectural drawings, oral history records, and objects mainly related to Gordon Bunshaft's projects and activities while employed as a partner in the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). The dates of the material span 1909-1990, with bulk dates of 1950-1989. Most of the information regarding Bunshaft's architectural projects is in the form of photographs and clippings. A large amount of material covers Nina and Gordon Bunshaft's personal life, including correspondence with family and friends, as well as photographs and documentation of their East Hampton home, extensive travels, and substantial art collection.
The collection consists of two distinct donations, the first in the late 1980s by Gordon Bunshaft, and the second by the estate of Nina Bunshaft, following her death in 1994. The addition of the second donation has expanded the scope of the collection to include a more personal perspective, and benefits from the addition of material relating to the Bunshafts' art collection.
Arranged alphabetically by last name of correspondent, following a "general" collection of letters from various correspondents that are grouped by date and sorted chronologically. Material is generally of a more personal nature, only cursorily professional, and consists primarily of letters, but includes occasional photographs, postcards, drawings, and clippings. Letters from Jean Dubuffet are typically in French; however, translations are included from Gordon Bunshaft's records.
Arranged alphabetically. An additional collection of magazines containing articles about Bunshaft's projects, SOM, and other architectural topics is arranged chronologically, with the exception of oversize material, which is stored separately. A bibliography (attached) lists the relevant articles in each issue.
The series is divided into five subseries. Subseries 1: Projects is arranged chronologically by project date. While most photos are of the interior and exterior of the buildings upon their completion, the subseries also includes a number of reproductions of plans and sections for most projects. A large quantity of the photographs were taken by the prominent architectural photographer Ezra Stoller, who had a long relationship with SOM. Yet, many other photographers were also used to document these structures and include Joseph W. Molitor and Hedrich-Blessing Photographers. See Subseries: Bound Collections for additional material on select projects. Subseries 2: Life & Activities consists of photographs of Gordon Bunshaft, both in private life and as an architect. Reflecting the more personal nature of this collection, the subseries is arranged with portraits of Gordon and Nina at the beginning of this section, followed by personal photos of Bunshaft's childhood, family, and early life (through his discharge from the military in 1946). The rest of the subseries is arranged strictly alphabetically. Of particular interest is a family photo album of Nina and Gordon, beginning with both of their childhoods and continuing through the late 1980s; most photos are labelled and dated. In contrast to Life & Activities, Subseries 3: Personal Snapshots consists of photos typically taken by Gordon Bunshaft on his travels and at home. This collection of photographs has been kept in original order and titles and names supplied by Bunshaft are in quotes. Subseries 4: Rotch Travelling Scholarship consists of a small collection of photographs, arranged alphabetically, taken by Bunshaft while in Europe from 1935-1936 on his Rotch Traveling Scholarship. More material from this period can be found in Series X. Drawings, and Series IV. Personal Papers, Subseries: Travel. Subseries 5: Bound Collections contains a small number of bound photography albums that relate to specific projects.
Consists of the most diverse range of material, including artwork, personal documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, certificates and awards, stationary, drawings, travel diaries, postcards, sketches, and a world map. The series includes three subseries. Subseries 1: General consists of such traditional material such as identification documents, address books, appointment diaries, and death records, but also includes more miscellaneous personal effects such as brochures and event invitations, a limited number of professional materials relating to SOM, sketches and notes from artists, and some limited drawings of the Bunshafts' apartment in New York City and their home in East Hampton. Subseries 2: Accolades & Recognition focuses on third party recognition of Gordon Bunshaft's career. The subseries consists almost entirely of awards and certificates recognizing his accomplishments in the field of architecture, but also includes documents regarding his official registration as an architect. See Series IX: Objects for medals received by Bunshaft. Subseries 3: Travel covers Bunshaft's experience abroad during the Rotch Traveling Fellowship (1935-1936) through his diary, sketches, and map, but also includes the numerous international trips taken throughout his life for SOM partners meetings, work, and leisure. The subseries consists of travel plans and itineraries for Nina and Gordon's international trips, a large quantity of menus from their international travels and domestic travels (including invitations to and menus from the White House). A number of appointment diaries detail Gordon's movements and expenses while he was abroad, and an extensive postcard collection is believed to date in bulk from his year on the Rotch trip, but appears to have been added to over the following years as well.
The series provides a detailed look at the creation and changing shape of the Bunshafts' art collection. Most importantly, this series includes a ledger book and a photo album that are cross referenced and document each piece acquired, purchased, sold, or donated. Additionally, the collection contains correspondence, receipts, photographs, clippings, brochures, and a legal agreement.
Consists of published volumes that reflect the work of Gordon Bunshaft or of SOM more generally. The series also contains a video cassette tape created by SOM on their fiftieth anniversary.
Contains a large number of SOM News publications that were bound into four volumes by Gordon Bunshaft and cover 1953-1970 (with some gaps).
Consists of audio cassette tapes, transcriptions of interviews for SOM, and a phonograph record. The topic is primarily architectural, although one resource focuses on Bunshaft's appointment to the Fine Arts Commission.
Consists of a number of medals and paperweights received by Bunshaft, as well as a lighter, his pipe, his briefcase, a carved scrimshaw (whale's tooth), and a sculpture by Nina Bunshaft.
The series is limited in scope to projects undertaken by Gordon Bunshaft personally (such as his private residence), as well as his work as a student and a Rotch Scholar. Of interest is a plan drawing by Bunshaft at age 12.
Skidmore, Owings Merrill LLP collection of Ezra Stoller photographs, bulk 1940-1970. Dept. of Drawings & Archives. Avery Architectural Fine Arts and Architecture Library. Columbia University.
Skidmore, Owings Merrill photographs, 1945-1969. Dept. of Drawings & Archives. Avery Architectural Fine Arts and Architecture Library. Columbia University.
Lever House architectural drawings, 1950-1953. Dept. of Drawings & Archives. Avery Architectural Fine Arts and Architecture Library. Columbia University.
William S. Brown manuscript on Skidmore, Owings Merrill, 1979 - 1983. Dept. of Drawings & Archives. Avery Architectural Fine Arts and Architecture Library. Columbia University.
Office Building for Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation : proposal / Skidmore, Owings Merrill, 1956. Dept. of Drawings & Archives. Avery Architectural Fine Arts and Architecture Library. Columbia University.
Organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Clippings; III. Photographs-Projects and Personal; IV. Photographs-Projects and Personal, Bound; V. Photographs-Rotch Travelling Scholarship; VI. Publications-General Periodicals; VII. Publications-SOM News; VIII. Postcards; IX. Oversize and Miscellaneous-Thesis, Oral History, Artifact, Audiovisual, Awards, Diplomas, Photographs; X. Architectural Drawings-Rotch Travelling Scholarship; XI. Architectural Drawings-General.
Arrangement: I. Correspondence: general correspondence is chronological, the remaining correspondence is by subject title or name of correspondent; II. Clippings: by subject and thereunder chronological; III. Photographs - projects and personal: project photographs are arranged chronologically and personal photographs are arranged by subject; IV. Photographs - projects and personal (bound): not arranged; V. Photographs - Rotch Travelling Scholarship oversize: arranged by geographic location; VI. Publications - General Periodicals: chronological; VII. Publications - SOM newsletters (bound): chronological; VIII. Postcards: not arranged; IX. Oversize and miscellaneous - artifact, audio visual, awards, diplomas, photographs: not arranged, X. Architectural drawings - Rotch Travelling Scholarship: arranged by accession number; XI. Architectural drawings - general: arranged by accession number.
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. Unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are available onsite via links in the container list. All original copies of audio / moving image media are closed. Email avery-drawings@columbia.edu for more information.
Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the director of Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library.
Gordon Bunshaft architectural drawings and papers, Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Gift of Gordon Bunshaft, 1988.005.
Source of acquisition--Gift of Gordon Bunshaft. Accession number--1988.005.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
correspondence accessioned 02/22/94.
This collection was fully re-processed by Barrett Reiter (Graduate Intern) under the supervision of Shelley Hayreh, Avery Archivist, in 2015.
2009-07-07 File created.
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GORDON BUNSHAFT (1909-1990)
Gordon Bunshaft received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), and was awarded the Rotch Travelling Scholarship shortly after graduation in 1935. Bunshaft used his scholarship to travel through Europe, where he sketched and photographed many sites of architectural significance.
After a brief period at the office of Edward Durell Stone, Bunshaft joined the New York office of the young architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in 1937. With the onset of the Second World War, Bunshaft took a leave of absence between 1942 and 1946 to serve in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. In 1943, Bunshaft married Nina Wayler, an actress originally from the Los Angeles area.
After World War II, SOM was to become one of the most influential architecture, planning, and design firms in the United States. Bunshaft was named a partner in SOM in 1949, directing the New York office until his retirement in 1979.
Bunshaft's impact on American architecture was largely in the arena of large-scale corporate architecture. In 1952, he completed the design of Lever House in New York City, a landmark of Post-War International Style glass curtain-wall skyscrapers. Among his other noted designs are the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City; Connecticut General Headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut; the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut; the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; and the National Commercial Bank and Haj Terminal in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Bunshaft also received many awards, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the American Institute of Architects' Medal of Honor and election to the College of Fellows, and the National Institute of Arts and Letter's first prize in architecture (Arnold W. Brunner Memorial).
Bunshaft and his wife Nina were also passionate art collectors, maintaining long-standing friendships with such notable artists as Henry Moore and Jean Dubuffet, and collecting various works of modern and "ancient" art throughout their travels. Additionally, through SOM's work with corporate modernist architecture, Bunshaft worked to incorporate modern art into the public spaces of these projects, often using artists like Henry Moore, Jean Dubuffet, and Isamu Noguchi. Such an interaction between art and architecture can be seen most notably between Noguchi's cube and the Marine Midland Bank Building in Manhattan. Bunshaft also served as a member of the Fine Arts Commission in Washington, D.C. and as a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Bunshaft died in New York City in 1990.
NINA ELIZABETH (WAYLER) BUNSHAFT (1914-1994)
Nina Bunshaft was born in Connecticut in 1914 to Russian parents. By the late 1920s they had relocated to California, settling in the Los Angeles area. As an adult, Nina was a dancer and briefly pursued a career as an actress. She is known to have had a small part in the 1942 film Four Jacks and a Jill. In 1943, after choosing not to continue to pursue an acting career, Nina married Gordon Bunshaft.
In regards to this collection, Nina Bunshaft played an active role in the formation of the Bunshafts' art collection. Their numerous international travels were a source of inspiration for their collection that reflects not only an interest with modern art but also with older, "ancient" artifacts from Asia and Africa. Their home in East Hampton was intended to showcase their collection and allow for the intimate enjoyment of the objects that they curated. Yet, it was not merely a place to exhibit works by renowned artists, it was also a place where Nina could pursue her own amateur painting and sculpture work. Her small, painted stone sculptures can be seen in Gordon's personal snapshots of the home and garden, and her brightly colored paintings are visible in snapshots of the home's interior.
Following Nina Bunshaft's death in 1994, their substantial art collection, which included a number of works by Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Joan Miró, and Jean Dubuffet, was given to the Museum of Modern Art. In addition, their East Hampton home was sold and the proceeds established an endowment, the Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Fund, for the acquisition of new works to the museum's collection.
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through CLIO, the catalog for Columbia University Libraries, and through ArchiveGRID, a catalog that allows users to search the holdings of multiple research libraries and archives.
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Box 1 Folder 1
Correspondents include: H.J. Heinz, Frederick Beinecke, J. de LaBaume Durrbach, Mitchell Jan, Seymour Knox; 11 letters; 3 envelopes; 1 "Gastronomic Diary"; 1 letter with 2 copies of translation, and document allowing Bunshaft to practice architecture in Belgium
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondents include: Joseph Hirshhorn, Pierre Matisse, Lyndon B. Johnson; 10 letters; 2 envelopes
Box 1 Folder 3
Correspondents include: Armand Blaton, Lyndon B. Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Linda Flannery, Umberto Allemandi, David Finn, Manuel Ungaro Zevallos, 47 letters; 6 envelopes; 1 postcard; 5 documents; 1 note; 1 photograph; 2 brochures
Box 1 Folder 4
46 letters; 5 envelopes; 3 cards; 1 postcard; 1 business card; 1 photograph
Box 1 Folder 5
4 letters; 1 telegram; 3 envelopes
Box 1 Folder 6
Letters from Nina to Gordon leading up to and following their marriage; content often very personal; 19 letters (including a telegram); 18 envelopes
Box 1 Folder 7
3 postcards
Box 1 Folder 8
25 documents; primarily correspondence with some translations from Spanish, but also includes a poster, certificate, and general information
Box 1 Folder 9-10
43 letters; 33 photographs; 19 envelopes; 3 documents, including copies of Dubuffet's address to the Press at Chase Manhattan Plaza, 1972; 1 note; 1 drawing
Box 1 Folder 11
7 letters; 1 telegram; 1 program; 1 speech; 1 award; 1 invitation; 1 envelope;
Box 1 Folder 12
Correspondents include: Jaqueline Kennedy, I.M. Pei, Stephen Smith; 4 letters; 1 envelope
Box 1 Folder 13
55 letters; 2 drawings; 9 postcards; 6 envelopes; 1 travel itinerary; 1 telegram
Box 1 Folder 14
13 letters; 3 telegrams, 2 drafts; 4 receipts; 1 drawing
Box 1 Folder 15
5 letters; 2 drawings
Box 1 Folder 16
8 letters; 1 receipt; 1 note
Box 1 Folder 17
Correspondence with Nina Bunshaft and Harry Brooks regarding Moore's "Perry Green"; 2 letters; 1 photocopy of newspaper article
Box 1 Folder 18
July 23, 1972 article was written by David Jacobs (copy is not included); series of congratulatory letters, with Gordon Bunshaft's replies, collated.
Box 2 Folder 1
Letters of congratulation on being awarded the Pritzker Prize; correspondence regarding application for and awarding of the Pritzker
Box 2 Folder 2
Letters of congratulation on the publication and thanks for receiving copies; 26 letters; 2 postcards; 3 cards; 1 list by Bunshaft of friends to give books to
Box 2 Folder 3
2 letters; 1 clipping; 1 note; 1 page of notes on architectural styles and eras
Box 2 Folder 4
Box 2 Folder 5
4 newspaper clippings
Box 2 Folder 6
1 newspaper clipping
Box 2 Folder 7
4 newspaper clippings
Box 2 Folder 8
7 newspaper clippings; 5 programs; 1 press release; 1 card
Box 2 Folder 9
Only original clippings have been counted; 16 clippings; assorted photocopies; 2 photographs; 2 issues of "Time"; occasional letter accompanying a clipping
Box 2 Folder 10
3 newspaper clippings
Box 2 Folder 11
23 newspaper clippings; 1 photocopy
Box 2 Folder 12
1 newspaper clipping; 3 photocopies
Box 2 Folder 13
4 newspaper clippings; 1 photocopy, unidentified; 1 envelope
Box 2 Folder 14
Majority of articles are about Bunshaft's works, a few discuss his and Nina Bunshaft's art collection, and a couple are about Jean Dubuffet; 24 newspaper clippings; 4 magazines; 4 letters; 1 award; 1 speech
Box 2 Folder 15
22 clippings regarding the death of Bunshaft, primarily copies; 1 program for memorial at MoMA
Box 2 Folder 16
3 newspaper clippings
Box 2 Folder 17
1 article
Box 2 Folder 17
1 article
Box 2 Folder 18
Structure also referred to as the "Carborundum Co.-Marine Midland Bank Western Complex"; 1 photocopy of article
Box 2 Folder 18
2 newspaper clippings
Box 2 Folder 18
1 photocopy of article
Box 2 Folder 19
3 newspaper clippings; 1 photocopy; 1 letter
Box 2 Folder 20
5 newspaper clippings
Box 2 Folder 21
1 newspaper clipping; 3 copies of Columbia's newspaper "Newsline"; 1 press release
Box 3 Folder 1
7 articles; 1 letter; 1 publication containing a review
Box 3 Folder 2
21 newspaper clippings; 1 photocopy; 2 programs for opening
Box 3 Folder 3
3 newspaper clippings
Box 3 Folder 4
5 newspaper clippings; 1 photocopy; 1 program for "Sculptors and their Drawings: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection"
Box 3 Folder 5
5 newspaper clippings; 1 publication; 6 photocopies of articles
Box 3 Folder 6
2 newspaper clippings; 1 article
Box 3 Folder 7
1 newspaper article; 1 article
Box 3 Folder 8
2 newspaper clippings; 1 copy of newspaper article
Box 3 Folder 9
1 newspaper clipping; 1 photocopy; 2 articles
Box 3 Folder 10
3 newspaper clippings
Box 3 Folder 11
2 newspaper clippings (the first regarding SOM's designs in the 1939 World's Fair, the second regarding Bunshaft quitting the Board of Design for the 1964 Fair)
Box 3 Folder 12
1 newspaper clipping
Box 3 Folder 13
1 newspaper clipping
Box 3 Folder 14
1 newspaper clipping in German; 1 article
Box 3 Folder 15
Gordon Bunshaft was one of the three jury members; 1 newspaper clipping
Box 3 Folder 16
1 newspaper clipping
Box 3 Folder 17
Most articles postdate Gordon Bunshaft and were collected by his wife Nina. Articles are arranged by date and are typically related to architecture, art, and acquaintances of the Bunshafts, however, articles are not limited to these topics
Box 25 to 28
General interest and professional magazines and serials containing articles by or about Gordon Bunshaft
For itemized listing, see downloadable PDF
Box 29
General interest and professional magazines and serials containing articles by or about Gordon Bunshaft
Box 3 Folder 18
3 photographs; 1 presentation drawing
Box 3 Folder 19
2 photographs
Box 3 Folder 20
4 photographs
Box 3 Folder 21
1 photo of site-plan drawing
Box 3 Folder 22
1 photo of site-plan drawing
Box 3 Folder 23
4 photographs of model
Oversize 1 Folder 1
2 photographs of model, mounted on cardboard
Box 3 Folder 24
7 photographs (1 interior, 1 floor plan, 5 exterior)
Box 3 Folder 25
24 photographs; 7 photocopies; 2 pages of art objects keyed to photocopies; 1 note; 2 proofs
Oversize 1 Folder 2
4 photographs
Oversize 1
1 bound book containing 6 photographs, taken by Ezra Stoller
Oversize 1 Folder 3-4
40 photographs
Box 3 Folder 26
3 photographs; 2 color transparencies
Box 3 Folder 27
6 photographs (1 floor plan, 5 exterior)
Box 3 Folder 28
Additional creator: Otto Apel; 7 photographs (1 floor plan, 6 exterior)
Box 3 Folder 29
5 photographs (exterior, 2 duplicates)
Box 3 Folder 30
13 photographs (6 interior, 2 floor plans, 5 exterior)
Box 3 Folder 31
Additional creator: Sedad H. Eldem; 20 photographs (10 of drawings, 1 interior, 9 exterior)
Box 3 Folder 32
11 photographs (1 site plan)
Box 3 Folder 33
6 photographs
Box 3 Folder 33
9 photographs (1 site plan, 1 elevation, 1 groundbreaking?); includes: Lou Crandall, R.S. Reynolds, Jr., F.C. Gardner, Henry Birdseye
Box 4 Folder 1
7 photographs (3 of drawings, 4 exterior); 1 press release
Box 4 Folder 2
15 photographs (3 interior, 5 exterior, 7 of drawings)
Box 4 Folder 3
8 photographs (3 of drawings, 2 interior, 3 exterior)
Box 4 Folder 4
10 photographs (3 of drawings)
Box 4 Folder 5
10 photographs (3 interior photos, 5 exterior, 2 of drawings)
Box 4 Folder 6
8 photographs (2 of drawings)
Box 4 Folder 7
Photography by [Armand?] Bartos; 12 photographs; 17 color transparencies; 36 negatives
Box 4 Folder 8
Includes Henry Moore; 31 photographs; 3 negatives
Box 4 Folder 9
6 photographs
Box 4 Folder 10
32 photographs (10 of drawings, 6 interior, 16 exterior)
Box 4 Folder 11
12 photographs (6 of drawings, 6 exterior)
Box 4 Folder 12
4 photographs
Box 4 Folder 13
12 photographs (4 of drawings)
Box 4 Folder 14
26 photographs (9 of drawings incl. 1 negative photostat, 6 interior, 11 exterior)
Box 4 Folder 15
26 photographs (6 of drawings, 14 interior, 6 exterior); 1 envelope
Box 4 Folder 16
4 photographs (duplicates); 1 obituary for Baron Leon Lambert
Box 4 Folder 17
3 photographs
Box 4 Folder 18
7 photographs (1 site plan)
Box 5 Folder 1
13 photographs (5 of drawings, 7 exterior, 1 of architects), includes Eero Saarinen, Bunshaft, Pietro Belluschi; 1 typed description
Oversize 1 Folder 5
1 photograph; by Arnold Newman; signed by Gordon Bunshaft, John D. Rockefeller II, Pietro Belluschi, Eero Saarinen, Philip Johnson, Max Abramovitz, Wallace K. Harrison, and others
Box 5 Folder 2
12 photographs (2 interior, 6 exterior, 4 of drawings)
Box 5 Folder 3
1 photograph
Box 5 Folder 4
35 photographs (13 photographs of model, 22 photocopies); 1 handwritten note
Box 5 Folder 5
Additional creator: Harwood K. Smith & Associates; 14 photographs (2 interior, 5 exterior, 6 of drawings, 1 photograph of model)
Box 5 Folder 6
34 photographs (19 exterior, 12 interior, 3 of drawings)
Box 5 Folder 7
23 photographs (12 exterior, 8 of drawings, 3 interior)
Box 5 Folder 8
5 photographs (1 aerial)
Box 5 Folder 9
8 photographs (6 of drawings, 2 exterior); 1 negative
Box 5 Folder 10
11 photographs (5 of drawings, 6 exterior); 1 color transparency
Box 5 Folder 11
20 photographs (6 of drawings, 6 interior, 8 exterior); 1 board with 2 images (both sides)
Box 5 Folder 12
23 photographs (15 interior, 3 of drawings, 5 exterior)
Box 5 Folder 13
1 photograph (of drawing)
Box 5 Folder 14
21 photographs (8 of drawings, 12 exterior, 1 interior)
Box 5 Folder 15-16
66 photographs (8 of drawings)
Box 5 Folder 17
31 slides
Box 6 Folder 1-2
40 photographs
Oversize 1 Folder 6
9 photographs
Box 6 Folder 3
Includes Edward Durell Stone; 36 photographs
Box 6 Folder 4
18 photographs
Box 6 Folder 5
9 photographs
Box 6 Folder 6
9 photographs
Box 6 Folder 7
9 photographs, 1 negative
Box 6 Folder 8
13 photographs
Box 6 Folder 9
3 photographs of his drawings in Italy
Box 6 Folder 10
34 photographs
Box 6 Folder 11
Includes Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hyzen [?]; 5 photographs
Box 6 Folder 12
Includes: Mr. Babb, Mr. Ness; 1 photograph
Box 6 Folder 13
9 photographs
Box 6 Folder 14
4 photographs
Box 6 Folder 15
Includes William Beinecke and Dave Hughs (SOM), Lou Crandall; 5 photographs
Box 6 Folder 16
Includes Ralph Walker, Minoru Yamasaki; 1 photograph
Box 6 Folder 17
Includes: Mr. McCloy, James Sweeney, David Rockefeller, Dorothy Miller, Walter Severinghaus, John Haley, Merrie Good, Willard C. Butcher, Perry Rathbone, Jack Boulton, Robert Rosenblum, William Ogden, Wright Elliot; 6 photographs
Box 6 Folder 18
Includes: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, John Merrill, Pier Luigi Nervi, José Luis Sert; 4 photographs
Box 6 Folder 19
1 photograph
Box 6 Folder 20
Includes Nathanial Owings, Frazar Wilde, Bill Brown, Zillerbach [?]; 7 photographs
Box 6 Folder 21
1 photograph
Box 6 Folder 22
Includes: Paul and Mrs. Weidlinger, Armand Bartos, Celeste Bartos; photos taken by Isidor Richmond; 12 photographs; 1 letter; 1 slide
Box 6 Folder 23
1 photograph
Box 6 Folder 24
1 photostat of clipping
Box 6 Folder 25
Includes: Dave Hughs, Charlie Hugh II; 1 photograph
Box 6 Folder 26
Painting at Bunshaft's East Hampton residence; 1 photograph; 1 letter
Box 6 Folder 27
Includes Sherwood Smith, during prep for a meeting regarding the Grace Building; 20 photographs
Box 6 Folder 28
8 photographs
Box 6 Folder 29-30
51 photographs; 1 letter
Box 6 Folder 31
Includes: Sedad H. Eldem, Bill Brown, Louis Skidmore; 6 photographs
Box 6 Folder 32
Includes: Gordon Smith; receipt of Chancellor Norton Medal; 3 photographs
Box 6 Folder 33
13 photographs; 1 letter
Box 6 Folder 34
Includes: Lou Crandall, Bill Brown, Mr. Berghart, Dick Alds, Martin Segul, Tom Carrol, Mr. Morris Tabakoblat; 9 photographs
Box 7 Folder 1
Includes: Eero Saarinen, Wallace Harrison, Ed Mathews, Max Abramovitz; 1 photograph
Box 7 Folder 2
Includes: Whitney North Seymour, Horace C. Flanigan; 3 photographs; 1 press release; 1 mixed medium card
Box 7 Folder 3
Includes: Nina & Gordon Bunshaft, Irina Moore, Mrs. Frank Stanton; 4 photographs
Box 7 Folder 4
11 photographs; 1 folder
Box 7 Folder 5
27 photographs; 1 folder
Box 7 Folder 6
Includes: Seymour Knox, Dru Heinz, Irina Moore, Henry Moore, Gordon Bunshaft; 1 photograph; 1 letter (from H.J. Heinz), 1 envelope
Box 7 Folder 7
8 photographs
Box 7 Folder 8
1 photograph; 1 letter (from I.M. Pei)
Box 7 Folder 9
2 photographs
Box 7 Folder 10
Includes: Walter Severinghaus, Ada Louise Huxtable, Fred Gaus, Roger Radford; 2 photographs
Box 7 Folder 11
Includes: Walter Severinghaus; 1 photograph
Box 7 Folder 12
15 photographs
Box 7 Folder 13
1 photograph
Box 7 Folder 14
Includes: David Rockefeller; 2 photographs
Oversize 1 Folder 7
Includes: Walter Severinghaus; 1 photograph with inscription; 1 letter
Box 7 Folder 15
1 photograph with handwritten note on bottom
Box 7 Folder 16
Includes: Wally Harrison, Mr. Shepley, Mr. & Mrs. Richmond, Nina Bunshaft, Mr. & Mrs. Louis Skidmore, Cramm, William Emerson (Dean of School of Architecture, M.I.T.); 3 photographs
Box 7 Folder 17
2 photographs
Box 7 Folder 18
Includes: Tom Carrol, Celeste Bartos, Mr. & Mrs. McCloy, Frank Stanton [?]; 6 photographs
Box 7 Folder 19
Includes: SOM colleagues; 1 photograph
Box 7 Folder 20
Gordon Bunshaft speaking at SOM; 21 photographs; 1 note
Box 7 Folder 21
Includes: Nathanial Owings, John Merrill, Louis Skidmore, Walter Severinghaus, William Hartman, Edward Mathews, Bill Brown, Eloise Skidmore, Nina Bunshaft; 13 photographs
Box 7 Folder 22
Includes: Nathanial Owings, John Merrill, Louis Skidmore, Walter Severinghaus; 1 photograph
Box 7 Folder 23
1 photograph
Box 7 Folder 24
Includes: SOM partners; 1 photograph
Box 7 Folder 25-26
Includes: Nathanial Owings, John Merrill, Louis Skidmore, Walter Severinghaus, William Hartman, Edward Mathews, Bill Brown, Eloise Skidmore, Nina Bunshaft; 13 photographs
Oversize 1 Folder 8
9 pages of prints (approx.280 images); 1 label
Box 7 Folder 27
3 photographs
Box 7 Folder 28
1 photograph at Edward Durell Stone's residence
Box 7 Folder 29
Includes: Mr. & Mrs. Nathanial Owings, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Severinghaus, Mrs. Louis Skidmore, Wayne Soverns, Al Baum, Frank Nolan, Robert Cutler, Mr. & Mrs. Bill Brouen, and the future Mrs. Ed Merrill; 4 photographs
Box 7 Folder 30
1 photograph
Box 7 Folder 31-32
98 photographs; includes Ruth Hughes, Ed Mathews, and members of SOM during the SOM trip to Turkey
Box 7 Folder 33
Includes photos of SOM partners in Egypt; 8 photographs
Box 7 Folder 34
2 photographs; 3 slides
Box 7 Folder 35
2 photographs
Box 7 Folder 36
7 photographs
Oversize 1 Folder 9
1 photograph; probably of an SOM affiliated social event at a residence
Oversize 1 Folder 10
3 photographs
Box 7 Folder 37
20 photographs
Oversize 1 Folder 11
6 photographs
Shelf C182ft
1 album containing photos of both Gordon and Nina's childhoods, and their life together; includes important information regarding dates and identities of friends and business partners; every photograph is labeled
Box 8 Folder 1
23 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 2
20 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 3
19 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 4
22 photographs; negatives; includes 2 images of mock-up of 'Oceanic Sculpture'
Box 8 Folder 5
23 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 6
23 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 7
12 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 8
20 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 9
19 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 10
32 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 11
Primarily of Abu Simbel; 19 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 12
15 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 13
18 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 14
20 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 15
18 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 16
20 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 17
18 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 18
9 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 19
18 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 20
9 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 21
Includes Paestum and Monreale, Italy; 18 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 22
19 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 23
20 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 24
18 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 25
Includes two photos of a Dubuffet sculpture in the Bunshafts' East Hampton home; 17 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 26
20 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 27
Includes photos of the Bunshafts' East Hampton residence; 17 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 28
19 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 29
26 photographs (no negatives)
Box 8 Folder 30
16 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 31
37 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 32
8 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 33
14 photographs; 1 transparency; 11 slides; negatives
Box 8 Folder 34
19 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 35
20 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 36
14 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 37
21 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 38
5 photographs of a Moore sculpture (no negatives)
Box 8 Folder 39
Includes photos of the Johnson Library in Austin, Texas with Johnson and Nixon; 16 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 40
20 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 41
8 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 42
8 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 43
33 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 44
Includes Miro's Moonbird, Giacometti's Tall Figure III, etc.; 6 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 45
15 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 46
18 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 47
36 photographs; negatives
Box 8 Folder 48
19 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 1
Includes Nina's sculptures; 19 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 2
16 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 3
Includes Dubuffet work; 30 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 4
Includes a sculpture exhibit in Florence that shows Dubuffet, Moore, and others; 39 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 5
Includes Nina's sculptures (animal series); 40 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 6
20 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 7
9 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 8
15 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 9
Includes images of Bunshafts' art, beyond Dubuffet; 9 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 10
17 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 11
Includes Giacometti sculpture; 9 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 12
17 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 13
11 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 14
18 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 15
Close-ups of Miro's Moonbird sculpture; 20 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 16
19 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 17
19 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 18
19 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 19
3 photographs; negatives (more negatives of other artwork)
Box 9 Folder 20
12 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 21
17 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 22
Possibly USSR; 18 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 23
12 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 24
Includes photos of London and Eel Pie Island; 20 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 25
19 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 26
20 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 27
Includes travel photos from Venice, Italy; 17 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 28
10 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 29
20 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 30
12 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 31
12 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 32
11 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 33
38 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 34
36 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 35
20 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 36
19 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 37
Includes interiors and art objects; 30 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 38
Images of snowy landscape and exterior of residence; 6 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 39
Images of snowy landscape; 8 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 40
Includes a cast bronze by Moore, "Seated Figure on Curved Bench" (1965); 4 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 41
18 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 42
20 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 43
Includes Croatia, Greece, Montenegro; 19 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 44
19 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 45
18 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 46
17 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 47
18 photographs; negatives
Box 9 Folder 48
20 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 1
13 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 2
18 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 3
16 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 4
Travels to Greece, Italy, and Malta; 16 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 5
Travel photos of Italy; includes photos of East Hampton residence and San Diego; 18 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 6
Nearly half of the photos are of the interior of their east Hampton residence; 17 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 7
Included are photos of their East Hampton residence; 20 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 8
19 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 9
20 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 10
Includes assorted sculptures, both outdoors and indoors; 21 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 11
9 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 12
4 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 13
12 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 14
12 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 15
21 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 16
14 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 17
29 photographs (no negatives)
Box 10 Folder 18
8 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 19
18 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 20
23 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 21
24 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 22
23 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 23
24 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 24
21 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 25
12 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 26
10 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 27
31 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 28
38 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 29
11 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 30
German flag in one photo, unlikely it is Paris; 20 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 31
11 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 32
9 photographs (no negatives)
Box 10 Folder 33
12 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 34
11 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 35
10 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 36
11 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 37
Negatives (no prints)
Box 10 Folder 38
13 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 39
17 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 40
15 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 41
10 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 42
Includes Nina's paintings; 4 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 43
Includes Nina's paintings; 10 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 44
6 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 45
1 photograph; negatives
Box 10 Folder 46
Includes Nina's paintings; 7 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 47
6 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 48
5 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 49
18 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 50
18 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 51
17 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 52
18 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 53
14 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 54
15 photographs; negatives
Box 10 Folder 55
8 photographs; negatives
Oversize 3 Folder 1
2 photographs
Oversize 3 Folder 2
1 photograph
Oversize 3 Folder 3
3 photographs
Oversize 3 Folder 4
1 photograph
Oversize 3 Folder 5-6
9 photographs
Oversize 3 Folder 7-8
7 photographs
Oversize 3 Folder 9
1 photograph
Oversize 3 Folder 10
1 photograph
Oversize 3 Folder 11
2 photographs
Oversize 3 Folder 12
1 photograph
Oversize 3 Folder 13
2 photographs
Oversize 3 Folder 14
2 photographs
Oversize 3 Folder 15
2 photographs
Oversize 3 Folder 16
1 photograph
Oversize 3 Folder 17
2 photographs
Item 1
Photographs by Ezra Stoller Associates; 19 photographs; projects include: Banque Lambert, Beinecke Rare Book Library, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Emhart Manufacturing Company, H.J. Heinz Company, Lever House, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, Reynolds Metals Company; images were also reproduced in Krinsky's Gordon Bunshaft of SOM (1988)
Item 2
Photographs by Ezra Stoller Associates; leather-bound album containing 41 photographs
Item 3
Protective cover is mislabeled as "Form Trees"; leather-bound album containing 42 photographs
Item 4
Photographs by Ezra Stoller; leather bound album containing 28 photographs
Item 5
Photographs by Ezra Stoller; leather-bound album containing 16 photographs
Box 7 Folder 38
1 military id card; 3 id photos; 1 social security card; 1 passport application; 3 copies of birth certificate; 1 note
Box 7 Folder 39
1 bound volume
Oversize 2 Folder 1
1 diploma
Box 7 Folder 40
Assorted documents regarding service and discharge; includes a couple letters of correspondence with Nathanial Owings and Louis Skidmore
Box 7 Folder 41
2 copies of death certificate; 1 copy of will; correspondence regarding the purchase of grave plots, Gordon's life insurance, and the design of his grave marker; 2 photographs
Box 7 Folder 42
1 invitation; 1 eulogy; collection of lists - both personal and professional - of people possibly to be invited to the memorial service
Box 11 Folder 1
1 original; 1 copy
Box 11 Folder 2
1 birth certificate (and 1 copy); 1 social security card; 2 diplomas; 1 note; 1 passport application; 1 award
Box 11 Folder 3
Papers regarding Gordon Bunshaft's parents; 1 letter; 1 receipt; 1 prayer book; 1 document
Box 11 Folder 4
2 books (one has been removed from its binder and consists of loose pages)
Box 11 Folder 5
2 floor plans
Box 11 Folder 6
Receipts, correspondence, and lists regarding furniture bought
Box 11 Folder 7
1 appointment book
Box 11 Folder 8
1 brochure for the opening of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut.
Oversize 2 Folder 2
1 copy of drawing (photostat?)
Box 11 Folder 9
Records regarding the Bushafts' dog; 5 documents
Box 11 Folder 10
1 publication on the history of the Fine Arts Commission, written by Sue A. Kohler
Box 11 Folder 11
2 pages of CV, listing honors, projects worked on, and organizations belonged to
Box 11 Folder 12
4 pages of notes; 1 envelope
Box 11 Folder 13
Documents relating to the construction and renovation of the residence; includes specifications, receipts, correspondence, site plans, and contracts
Box 11 Folder 14
Miscellaneous financial documents; records income from SOM between 1946 and 1970, gives a general "financial picture"
Box 11 Folder 15
1 exhibition publication
Dr 309
1 napkin with messages and signatures, including Henry Moore, Irina Moore, Olga Hirshhorn, Fred Weisman, Marcia Weisman, Harry [Brooks?], Taft Schreiber, and others
Box 12 Folder 1
Primary creators: Henry Moore and Frank Stanton; 2 bound volumes of photos of a weekend trip to the Bunshafts' home in East Hampton; photos also include Laura and James Sweeney, Ruth and Frank Stanton, Henry Moore, and Nina and Gordon Bunshaft
Box 12 Folder 2
1 special event publication
Box 12 Folder 3
1 hotel card; 1 baggage claim ticket
Oversize 2 Folder 3
Material that arrived with the collection and refer to contents given to Avery Library; 5 pages of notes; 3 large envelopes
Box 12 Folder 4
1 document, 1 program, 1 newspaper clipping
Box 12 Folder 5
1 magazine published in conjunction with the Exhibition of recent Buildings by SOM, at MoMA
Item 6
2 leather-bound volumes
Box 12 Folder 6
2 documents
Box 12 Folder 7
4 sheets personalized stationary
Oversize 2 Folder 4
1 drawing
Box 12 Folder 8
3 articles; 3 programs; 2 invitations; 2 tickets; 1 note; 1 envelope
Box 12 Folder 9
4 certificates; 2 letters; 2 copies of academic history from M.I.T.
Box 12 Folder 10
5 pages
Box 12 Folder 11
4 certificates, from Yale University, Lunchline at Ball State University, The Architectural Record, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
Box 12 Folder 12
1 certificate (originally framed)
Box 12 Folder 13
1 certificate (originally framed)
Box 12 Folder 14
1 letter; 1 ribbon; 1 certificate
Box 12 Folder 15
1 certificate (originally framed)
Box 12 Folder 16
1 certificate (originally framed)
Box 12 Folder 17
1 certificate; 3 letters; 1 clipping
Oversize 2 Folder 5
1 certificate (originally framed)
Box 12 Folder 18
1 certificate; 1 program; 1 letter; 1 citation; 1 note
Oversize 2 Folder 6
1 certificate (originally framed)
Oversize 2 Folder 7
1 certificate (originally framed)
Oversize 2 Folder 8
1 certificate (originally framed)
Box 12 Folder 19
1 certificate (originally framed)
Box 12 Folder 20
1 citation; 2 letters
Oversize 2 Folder 9
1 certificate; 1 card
Box 12 Folder 21
1 program
Box 12 Folder 22
1 resolution; 1 letter
Oversize 2 Folder 10
1 certificate
Oversize 2 Folder 11
1 certificate (originally framed)
Box 12 Folder 23
1 program; 1 article; 2 photographs, includes Kevin Roche; 1 letter; 1 citation (2 pages); 2 notes
Box 13 Folder 1
1 diary; journals Bunshaft's travels around Europe during his Rotch Scholarship, most information is personal, some about the architecture
[See Series XI: Additional Donations Series for "Year Book, 1935"]
Box 13 Folder 2
1 map, with travel notes from Bunshaft's time in Europe on his Rotch Travelling Scholarship, originally kept in his travel diary
Box 13 Folder 3
3 sketchbooks, some loose pages at rear of each, drawings are dated and cities are identified
Item 7
1 sketchbook, most drawings are dated and cities are identified
Box 14 Folder 1-3
Assorted blank postcards from Bunshafts travels, most likely during his Rotch Travelling Scholarship; approx. 1,100 postcards; the 49 postcards containing addresses, writing, computations, or sketches have been bundled together and are in Folder 1.
Box 13 Folder 4
2 books; Bunshaft's name in front cover of London guide, dated 1959
Box 13 Folder 5-6
First folder contains itineraries for international trips taken by Nina and Gordon Bunshaft, trips are often taken annually; second folder contains brochures and miscellaneous documents (i.e. hotel stationary)
Box 15 Folder 1-3
Includes a variety of menus and invitations from locations and events in the United States and abroad. These range from presidential invitations and SOM hosted events to restaurants in various countries.
Box 2 Folder 12
oversized menus
Box 15 Folder 5
1 book on Oak Park Prairie Houses; 1 folder with 3 brochures, 1 program for SOM's 50th Anniversary, 1 article
Box 16 and 17
31 diary books; missing years 1978, 1986, 1987 (two diaries, 1979 and 1985, contain multiple years); most days are blank, typically writes while on his travels abroad. Sections at the back are used to keep track of expenditures and purchases
Box 15 Folder 6-7
1 ledger book listing works, with notations; various documents originally stored in ledger now stored separately in second folder (includes photos, correspondence, lists of art pieces, and personal notes)
Shelf C178rr
1 album containing images of the art owned by the Bunshafts; images are labeled with numbers and colors that correspond to additional information contained in the ledger as well as location (New York apartment or residence in East Hampton) See cross referenced "Record Book of all art purchases"
Box 18 Folder 1-4
Divided by decade, covering 1945 to 1989 with the bulk from 1960-1989; consists of correspondence with galleries, photographs, and receipts
Box 18 Folder 5
Assorted photographs of art objects that the Bunshafts looked at, purchased, or researched; occasional objects used in projects by SOM
Box 18 Folder 6
Informational material about ancient tribal art; 5 publications; 2 brochures; 1 poster; 1 letter
Box 18 Folder 7
8 documents; includes program for an American Folk Art exhibit through which the Bunshafts acquired the piece, as well as 2 newspaper clippings and information regarding the acquisition
Box 18 Folder 8
1 poster advertising the exhibit
Box 18 Folder 9
4 panels
Box 18 Folder 10
1 document; signed by Nina Bunshaft, regarding the transfer of ownership of a number of art pieces after his death
Box 18 Folder 11
See pages 76-81; article contains images of the Bunshafts' New York City apartment
Box 19 Folder 1
1 book; written by Frederick Gutheim; features the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (see page 14)
Box 19 Folder 2
1 survey; written by Frederick D. Nichols and William B. O'Neal; features the Reynolds Metals Company General Office Building
Item 8
1 book; written by Carol Herselle Krinsky
Box 19 Folder 3
5 copies of publicity information ("media kit") in folders for distribution; 1 letter regarding assembly of media kit
Box 19 Folder 4
6 copies of publication; 1 letter regarding the publication; 11 copies of official insert
Box 19 Folder 5
1 book, in Hungarian, written by Bonta Janos; 1 letter
Box 19 Folder 6
1 video cassette tape, includes "SOM, the First Fifty Years," and "SOM, the Future"; 1 letter; 1 envelope
Volume 1
Topics include: general news about SOM offices worldwide
Volume 1
Topics include: group insurance policy for SOM employees; construction of the New York Life Insurance Company, Chicago, Illinois; construction projects for United Air Lines; airplane hangar at Nouasseur, Morocco; hotel construction at Istanbul, Turkey; expansion of the New York office; presentation of three hospitals at the American Hospital Association convention in San Francisco: Ohio State University Medical Center, Northern Indiana Hospital for Children and the Maternity and Pediatrics Pavilion of Cedars of Lebanon Hospital of Los Angeles, California; post-graduate school for the United States Navy, Monterey, California
Volume 1
Topics include: Annual Partners' Meeting at Chicago on November 20th and 21st; Manufacturers Trust Bank building, Manhattan, New York; renovation of the SOM San Francisco office; post-graduate school for the United States Navy at Monterey, California; long-term planning for Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; Pacific Greyhound Maintenance Center, San Francisco, California; Elmendord Hospital, Alaska; Sawyer Biscuit Company Factory Building; Food Service Unit, University of Illinois at Urbana; Staff Apartments, University of Illinois at Urbana; completion of the Cancer Research Addition of the Medical Center at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; multiple-dwelling unit of the Germany State Department; Pepsi Cola new bottling plant, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Maxon Oral School, Portland, Oregon.
Volume 1
Topics include: first Progressive Architecture Design Award
Volume 1
Topics include: Fort Dearborn Project, Chicago, Illinois; Marion County Courthouse, Salem, Oregon
Volume 1
Topics include: Ford Motor Company Building, Michigan; Trinity Lutheran Church, Walnut Creek, California; Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, Illinois; Men's Dormitory for Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
Volume 1
Topics include: Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Building, Connecticut; Borden Research Laboratory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Stanford Lands. Stanford University, Stanford, California; Gunners' School, Great Lakes Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois; Richland Lutheran Church, Richland, Washington; Los Alamos National Laboratory, General Laboratory and Administration Building, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Volume 1
Topics include: Manufacturers' Trust Company, New York; United States Consulate, Bremen, Germany; Standard Oil Company Technical Services Building, Whiting, Indiana; Hilton Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey; Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, Oregon; First National Bank Building, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Volume 1
Topics include: SOM Annual Partner's Meeting; Shopping Center at Pacific Grove, California
Volume 1
Topics include: National Administrative Center, New York; Okinawa Engineer District Complex, Japan; completion of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School of Engineering, Monterey, California
Volume 1
Topics include: Inland Steel Company Building, Chicago, Illinois; United States Consulate, Dusseldorf, Germany; Gold Medal from the Architectural League of New York for two buildings by SOM: Manufacturers Trust Company's Fifth Avenue Branch; Tucker-Maxon Oral School in Portland, Oregon; Wilsey & Ham's Building for Millsdale Industrial Park, Millbrae, California; Vick Chemical Company Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; General Mills Inc. Building, Golden Valley, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Addition for Hosford School, Portland, Oregon; relocation of the Colorado Springs office to its new permanent address at 3333 North El Paso Street; retirement of Capt. Carroll L. Tyler
Volume 1
Topics include: United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Volume 1
Topics include: Chase Manhattan Bank Headquarters, Manhattan, New York; United States Naval Hospital, Virginia; Kimberly-Clark Corporation Building, Fullerton, California; Warren Petroleum Corporation building, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Fort Dearborn project, Chicago, Illinois; Women's dormitory at Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Volume 1
Topics include: Crown Zellerbach Office Building, San Francisco, California; Utah Construction project, San Francisco Bay, California; Reynolds Metal Company Headquarters Building, Richmond, Virginia; Completion of Central Lutheran Church, Eugene, Oregon; Burns Clinic project, Petoskey, Michigan; East Side Junior High School, Joliet, Illinois
Volume 1
Topics include: SOM Annual Partner's Meeting; retirement of Louis Skidmore; Heinz Research Center Building, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Award from the Municipal Art Society to SOM for the Manufacturers Trust Company; Karl Taylor Compton laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts
Volume 1
Topics include: Warren Petroleum Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Guardian Life Insurance Company Building, San Diego, California; Metropolitan Headquarters for YMCA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Lincoln Square Project, Manhattan, New York; retirement of Major General George J. Nold; plans for the Winter Olympic Games, Squaw Valley, California; Award for East Side Junior High School, Joliet, Illinois, from Progressive Architecture
Volume 1
Topics include: The Chase Manhattan Bank, Manhattan, New York
Volume 1
Topics include: United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Volume 1
Topics include: New York University - Bellevue Medical Center, Manhattan, New York; Motor Bank Addition of the United States National Bank of Portland, Oregon; completion of the Cedar Hills Shopping Center, Portland, Oregon; completion of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Fullerton, California; Preferred Insurance Company Building, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Talman Federal Savings & Loan Association Building, Chicago, Illinois; General Mills Headquarters, Golden Valley, Minnesota
Volume 1
Topics include: Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation Building, Manhattan, New York
Volume 1
Topics include: SOM Annual Partners' Meeting
Volume 1
Topics include: Gold Medal Award of the American Institute of Architects; Dollars Saving Bank, Manhattan, New York
Volume 1
Topics include: Master Plan for the Planning Commission and the Re-development Agency of San Francisco
Volume 1
Topics include: Union Carbide Corporation Building, Eastview, New York; Hoyt Street Medical Clinic, Portland, Oregon; Portland Exposition-Recreation Center, Oregon; Avon Products Building, Morton Grove, Illinois; Signode Steel Strapping Company Building, Glenview, Illinois; H.J. Heinz Company Building, San Francisco, California; Shell Company Office Building, Melbourne, Australia; Temple University Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; C.B.S. Laboratories, Stamford, Connecticut; American Machine and Foundry nuclear reactor, Plainsboro, New Jersey; Institute for Muscle disease, Manhattan, New York; Geigy Chemical Corporation, Ardsley, New York; Karl Taylor Compton Laboratories, MIT, Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts; Parke, Davis & Company Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Volume 1
Topics include: SOM Annual Partners' Meeting; JFK International Airport, Queens, New York; United Airlines hangar, San Francisco, California
Volume 2
Topics include: The Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, Illinois
Volume 2
Topics include: Norton Building, San Francisco, California; Colgate University, Hamilton, New York; Northwest Community Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Banco Moreira Salles, Manhattan, New York; Inland Steel Company, Chicago, Illinois
Volume 2
Topics include: Warren Petroleum Corporation Building, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Volume 2
Topics include: Reynolds Metals Company Headquarters, Richmond, Virginia
Volume 2
Topics include: SOM Annual Partners' Meeting; Crown Zellerbach Corporation Headquarters Office Building, San Francisco, California; Harris Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, Illinois; The Chase Manhattan Bank, Manhattan, New York
Volume 2
Topics include: Banque Lambert, Brussels, Belgium
Volume 2
Topics include: Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa; Medical Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Chicago; John J. Pershing Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois; Albert Einstein Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois; Gompers Junior High School, Chicago, Illinois
Volume 2
Topics include: The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Volume 2
Topics include: Pepsi-Cola World Headquarters, Manhattan, New York; First City National Bank of Houston, Houston, Texas; Chase Manhattan Bank, Manhattan, New York; The Hartford Building, Chicago, Illinois; C.I.L House, Montreal, Canada; First National City Bank of New York, Manhattan, New York; JFK International Airport, Queens, New York; Banco de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia; John Hancock Building, San Francisco, California
Volume 2
Topics include: Yale [Beinecke] Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut
Volume 2
Topics include: Introduction of new partners in SOM; Home Federal Savings & Loan Association of Chicago Building, Chicago, Illinois; Union Carbide Corporation, Manhattan, New York
Volume 2
Topics include: First City National Bank, Houston, Texas
Volume 2
Topics include: Emhart Manufacturing Company Building, Hartford, Bloomfield, Connecticut
Volume 2
Topics include: The Hartford Building, Chicago, Illinois
Volume 2
Topics include: Introduction of new partners; The Portland Memorial Coliseum, Oregon; The Portland Hilton Hotel, Oregon; The Hilton Inn, Seattle, Washington; The Oregon Primate Research Center, Portland, Oregon; The Reed College Biology Building, Portland, Oregon; Linfield College Commons Building, McMinnville, Oregon; Portland Urban Renewal Master Plan, Oregon; United Metal Trades Association; Oregon Technical Institute, Klamath Falls, Oregon; Standard Plaza Building, Portland, Oregon
Volume 2
Topics include: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Volume 2
Topics include: The Upjohn Company. Kalamazoo, Michigan
Volume 2
Topics include: The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California
Volume 2
Topics include: John Hancock Building, New Orleans, Louisiana; John Hancock Building, Kansas City, Missouri
Volume 2
Topics include: American Republic Building, Des Moines, Iowa
Volume 2
Topics include: Tennessee Gas Transmission Co, Building, Houston, Texas
Volume 2
Topics include: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven
Volume 2
Topics include: BMA Tower, Kansas City, Missouri
Volume 3
Topics include: Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hawaii
Volume 3
Topics include: Oregon Technical Institute, Portland, Oregon; Lloyd Corporation building project, Portland, Oregon; Omark Industries, Inc. Building, Portland, Oregon; Sheraton Motor Inn, Seattle, Washington; Pacific Power and Light Co., Portland, Oregon; Portland Center, Oregon
Volume 3
Topics include: John Hancock Center Chicago, Illinois
Volume 3
Topics include: Alcoa Building, San Francisco, California
Volume 3
Topics include: Washington Mall Plan, Washington, D.C.
Volume 3
Topics include: Banque Lambert, Brussels, Belgium
Volume 3
Topics include: The Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, Connecticut
Volume 3
Topics include: National Life and Accident Insurance Company Home Office Building, Nashville, Tennessee
Volume 3
Topics include: American Bible Society Building, Manhattan, New York
Volume 3
Topics include: A.I.A Awards 1967
Volume 3
Topics include: National Headquarters Building of the American Republic Insurance Company, Des Moines, Iowa
Volume 3
Topics include: Community Hospital of Roanoke Valley, Virginia
Volume 3
Topics include: Shell Plaza, Houston, Texas
Volume 3
Topics include: American Can Company Building, Greenwich, Connecticut
Volume 4
Topics include: Chase Manhattan Bank, San Juan, Puerto Rico; New York University Medical Tower, Manhattan, New York; Princeton Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey; City College of New York, Science & Physical Education Building, Manhattan, New York; Connecticut College Fine Arts Building, New London, Connecticut; Equitable Life – Atlanta, Georgia
Volume 4
Topics include: Tishman - Third Avenue, Manhattan, New York; L.B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas; Cornell - Social Science Building, Ithaca, New York; Uris - Jericho, Jericho, L.I., New York; Carlton Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa; Uris - Blue Hill, Orangetown, New York
Volume 4
Topics include: Solow Office Building – Manhattan, New York; American Can - Greenwich, Connecticut; One Beacon Street – Boston, Massachusetts; Hamilton Civic Square - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Volume 4
Topics include: The Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and the Mt. Sinai Hospital - Annenberg - Manhattan, New York; 1095 Avenue of the Americas – Manhattan, New York; 1114 Avenue of the Americas - Manhattan, New York; Seatrain Lines, Weehawken, New Jersey
Volume 4
Topics include: One Liberty Plaza – Manhattan, New York; The Virginia National Bank, Norfolk, Virginia; The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York
Volume 4
Topics include: 1114 Avenue of the Americas, Manhattan, New York; Research Hangar - Federal Aviation Administration, Atlantic City, New Jersey; Crossroads Associates, Fairfax County, Virginia; Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & East Campus Library & Research Building. University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Volume 4
Topics include: Ford Motor Credit Co., Dearborn, Michigan; Shell Oil Company - Data Service Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Philip Morris (Cigarette Manufacturing Plant), Richmond, Virginia
Volume 4
Topics include: Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital, Syracuse, New York; Carlton Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
Volume 4
Topics include: Behavioral Sciences Center. University of Illinois, Chicago Circle; Basic Science Building. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; Health Sciences Library, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; Science & Engineering Center. University of Illinois - Chicago Circle; addition to Science & Engineering Center University of Illinois - Chicago Circle; Core & Research Library, Biological Science Building. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Volume 4
Topics include: Marine Midland Center, Buffalo, New York
Volume 4
Topics include: Weyerhaeuser Headquarters Office Building. Tacoma, Washington
Volume 4
Topics include: Oregon Technical Institute, Classroom Building, Klamath Falls, Oregon
Oversize 2
1 phonograph record, includes Ernest Kump, Gordon Bunshaft, Eero Saarinen, Philip Johnson, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Richard Neutra. Edited by John Peter, recording and photography by Edward A. Hamilton, produced by Reynolds Metals Company.
Box 20 Folder 01
Interview with Carol Krinsky on topics including: Philip Morris, End of Hirshhorn, LBJ library, 9 W 57 St, Noxell 1967, One Main Place, Beinecke Library, Lincoln Ctr Library, Chase Hancock in New Orleans, Istanbul Hilton thru Reynolds, VA to part of Hilton
Box 20 Folder 02
Item 9
1 book
Item 10
Completed for the Art Institute of Chicago, interviewed by Betty J. Blum; most material regards Gordon Bunshaft's work as an architect at SOM; 1 book
Box 20 Folder 03
Completed for the Art Institute of Chicago, interviewed by Betty J. Blum; most material regards Gordon Bunshaft's work as an architect at SOM;
Box 19 Folder 7
Interviewed by Paige Mulhollan; topic relates to Bunshaft's experiences with President Lyndon Baines Johnson around the design of the Johnson Presidential Library, and touches on Bunshaft's appointment to the Commission of Fine Arts
Box 21 Folder 1
1 medal
Box 21 Folder 2
1 medal; 1 box
Box 21 Folder 3
1 medal on ribbon; 1 stone; 1 box
Box 21 Folder 4-5
2 medals; 2 boxes
Box 21 Folder 6
1 medal; 1 box
Box 21 Folder 7
1 medal; 1 box
Box 21 Folder 8
1 medal; 1 box
Box 21 Folder 9
1 pin; medal is given for civic patriotism and public service to the city of Buffalo
Box 21 Folder 10
1 medal; 1 box
Box 21 Folder 11
1 medal on ribbon; 1 box
Box 22 Folder 1
1 medal on ribbon; 1 box
Box 22 Folder 2
1 medal (no engraving on rear, unlike the F.W. Chandler Prize, above)
Box 22 Folder 3
1 paperweight; 1 box
Box 22 Folder 4
1 paperweight; 1 card; 1 box
Box 22 Folder 5
1 medal; 1 box
Box 22 Folder 6
1 paperweight; 1 box
Box 22 Folder 7
1 lighter; 1 box
Box 22 Folder 8
1 coin
Box 22 Folder 9
1 pipe; 1 leather pouch
Box 23
1 carved whale tooth with architectural drawing of the American Can Company's façade and section
Shelf C177ft, above
1 brown leather briefcase
Box 24
Primary creator: Nina Bunshaft; 1 sculpture [rocks, paint, glue]
Shelf C177ft, above
1 pin joint, given to Bunshaft by Watson Powell, Jr., president of the American Republic Insurance Company
Oversize 4 Folder 1 to 6
Dr 309
2 rendering in pencil and watercolor : "Town Hall Portal, Siena", "16th Century House, Salamanca"
Oversize 4 Folder 7
1 drawing by a 12 year old Gordon Bunshaft
Dr 309
[MISSING]
1 birds-eye view, in pen and marker, of the Bunshafts' home and property in East Hampton
Roll A132A.01
3 rubbings taken at the Louvre during Bunshaft's Rotch Travelling Scholarship
Roll A132A.02a
2 drawings of plan, elevations, and sections of a radio cabinet; SOM architects
Roll A132A.03a
18 drawings, including plans, elevations, details, work schedules, and furniture details
Roll A132A.02b
11 drawings, including plans, elevations, and details
Roll A132A.03b
10 drawings, including a site plan, plans, elevations, sections, and details
Box 13 Folder 7
1935 Dairy kept by Gordon Bunshaft when he was 26 years old and studying in Europe on a Rotch Traveling Scholarship. Some notations are dated as 1958 and 1959. Kept primarily as a notebook rather than an appointment book. Notes include, among other things, list of European hotels and sites to visit, travel itineraries, list of books purchased and itemized furniture to be sold. Includes a clippng annoucing plans by the Lever Brothers to build new headquarters.
Donated by Nicholas Adams (2021.001)