Julian C. Levi papers, 1862-1971
Julian C. Levi papers, 1862-1971
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#0773
- Bib ID:
- 4079024 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Levi, Julian, 1874-1971
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 21 boxes (21 boxes)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 1, Boxes 3-14, Series I: Boxes 1-6. Box 2 is located on-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
Levi's correspondence with his wife, Alice Fries Levi, letters of other family members, his diaries, his school and college notebooks and papers, awards and medals, and personal photographs. The earliest item in the collection is a scrapbook kept by his father, Albert A. Levi, in San Francisco, 1862.
Arrangement
Selected materials cataloged remainder arranged.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
The following boxes are located off-site: Boxes 1, Boxes 3-14, Series I: Boxes 1-6. Box 2 is located on-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Julian C. Levi papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Related Archival Materials - at Columbia University
Collections related by provenance: Julian Clarence Levi architectural drawings and papers, 1895-1963, Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Levi, Julian C. Method of acquisition--Bequest; Date of acquisition--1971. Accession number--M-71.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 07/--/89.
Revision Description
2009-07-07 File created.
2015-08-21 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi
2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.
2021-05-14 Additional description created for Boxes 3, 6-9, and 11-14 by Jose Luis Villanueva, GSAPP, was added to the finding aid by CCR.
Biographical / Historical
Architect, watercolorist, philanthropist.
Subject Headings
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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Papers
Box 1
Box 2
Box 2
Box 3
Includes miscellaneous papers of Taylor & Levi office: contracts, correspondence, introductions, applications, AIA documents, personal documents.
Box 4
Box 5
Box 6
Box 6
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Box 6
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Box 6
Box 6
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Box 7
Box 7
Box 7
Box 7
Box 7
Box 7
Box 7
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
Box 8
Box 9
Box 9
Box 9
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Box 10
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Box 11
Box 11
Box 11
Includes material about: American Society of the French Legion of Honor; XIV Congress International des Architectes, 1937; The Architect Emergency Committee, 1940; the Societe des Architectes Diplomes par le Gouvernement, 1943; the Exposition Internationale NY, 1939-1940; Pan American Congress papers; Great Georgian Houses of America papers.
Box 12
Includes portraits of Levi as a child; family photographs; travel photographs from trips to Europe; Panama California exhibition photographs, 1915-1917; World War I photographs; and photographs from ceremonies, dinners, and events.
Box 13
Includes Levi's portraits from 1899, 1920, 1926, 1929, 1932, 1937, 1940, 1950, 1960, and 1968; miscellaneous ceremony photographs; Pan American Architects Conference photographs, Washington D.C., 1965; photographs from a White House reception; Levi and Laura Boulton at her collection photographs, Columbia University, 1969; Julian Levi's US passports (nine in total); Service Militaire Alimentation VISA, 1921-1922.
Box 13a
These include one photo album related to Levi's time in Europe during World War I; "Faculty Club reception in honor of Julian Levi" (3 7" reels, acetate film), 1970; Passports of Alice Fries Levi, Levi's wife; Carte de legitimation; Photograph portraits of Levi; a wedding book; and Wilfred Grenfell prints.
Box 14
Includes one scrapbook of theatre records, 1893-1894
Box 14
Includes dinner invitations; three notebooks in French, one is titled "Book 1, June 1903"; Dr. J. Sachs's Collegiate Institute Report from Levi, 1889-1890; United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York Award Board, 1965; American Red Cross pendants.
Series I
Box Series I: Box 1
Box Series I: Box 2
Box Series I: Box 3
Box Series I: Box 4
Box Series I: Box 5
Box Series I: Box 6