Office Records: Scrapbooks
This section contains 8 undated scrapbooks.
Scrapbook 1
Major buildings
Documents major buildings of his career: U.N. School, University of Iowa, University of Illinois, Phoenix Mutual Building
in Hartford, Philharmonic Hall, Brandeis University, U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh. Includes photos of Harrison and Abramovitz
in their office. Photographs, clippings, brochures, and correspondence. 24 pp. In ringbinder.
Scrapbook 2
University of Illinois
Documents Abramovitz and his buildings at the University of Illinois, including text and clippings on his honorary degree
from Illinois and his commencement speech. Clippings, photographs, text, and brochures. 24 pps. + loose material inside
front cover. In ringbinder.
Scrapbook 3
Phoenix Mutual and US Steel
Documents Phoenix Mutual and U.S. Steel (including text on building's structure). 20 pp. (many blank). In souvenir album.
Scrapbook 4
Miscellaneous projects
Documents miscellaneous projects, including Owens-Illinois, Lincoln Center, Columbia University Law School and Lipchitz's
sculpture, Alcoa Building and U.S. Steel Building in Pittsburgh, CIA Building, Langley, Va., University of Illinois, and personal
memorabilia. Some materials date from late 1970s. Includes clippings, photographs, tearsheets, correspondence, and realia.
20 pp. In souvenir album.
Scrapbook 5
Brandeis University, West Point, and Beth Zion
Documents buildings at Brandeis University, West Point, and Beth Zion in Buffalo. Clippings, correspondence, photographs,
and brochures. 20 pp. In souvenir album.
Scrapbook 6
Miscellaneous
Documents Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, honorary degree from the University of Pittsburgh, AIA membership, appointment
to the Regional Plan Association (with congratulatory drawing by Henry Dreyfus), Battery Park City, U.N. School, Bunker Hill
Square, Erieview Plaza, and Alcoa Building. Clippings, photographs, certificates, correspondence, and other items. 42 pp.
In ringbinder.
Scrapbook 7
Rothschild Bank and Israel trip
Documents Rothschild Bank (Paris) and MA's trip to Israel. Includes personal correspondence and photographs, such as MA with
Governor of North Carolina, site inspection of US Air Force Academy in Colorado, and other personal memorabilia. Clippings,
correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia. 20 pp. In souvenir album.
Scrapbook 8
Correspondence and memorabilia
Letters from Mary (Polly) Ingraham Bunting, Alexander (Sandy) Calder, Robert F. Kennedy, Jacques Lipchitz, Reuben Nakian,
Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Samuel I. Rosenman, spanning the years 1958 to 1967. Scrapbook also contains 1939 greeting card
from Hugh Ferriss, 1964 caricature of MA by Henry Dreyfuss, 1967 reception invitation from Mayor John V. Lindsay, and clippings.
Photographs include the UN design team and Chagall exhibition. 22 pp. In ringbinder.
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