This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
This collection contains 247 photographs from William F. Lamb's reference files. The photographs were originally arranged into 4 albums entitled "A: Interiors, Ceilings, and Vaults" "B: Miscellaneous" "C: Details" and "D: Details and Wood." The images primarily detail Italian architecture in Rome, Florence, Siena, Venice and Vatican City.
1900
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
Permission to publish must be obtained in writing from the Director, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, 1172 Amsterdam Ave., MC 0301, New York, NY 10027.
William F. Lamb reference photographs. Located in the Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library.
Accession number--1000.086.
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
William F. Lamb was an architect in the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and served as the principle designer of the Empire State Building. He studied architecture at Columbia University's School of Architecture and at the EĢcole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.
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