Series IV Project Records

Project Records: Project Files, [ca.1966-ca.1987]

Project Records: Specifications

Project Records: Photographs

The Project Photographs are divided into three groupings. The largest isProject Photographs from AKS Office Files, which contains 4,351 photographs from the office files of Abramovitz-Kingsland-Schiff.. The next grouping consists of 16 Albums of Ezra Stoller Photographs. The last grouping, Project Records: Loose Photographs includes 144 photographs, 20 negatives, and 73 color slides and transparencies. Additional photographs can be found in the series:Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Lincoln Center: Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, and United Nations.

Project Records: Photographs From AKS Office Files

This sub-series consists of seven boxes housing 4,351 project photographs in 422 file folders covering approximately 199 projects. Most of the photographs are undated. Items in this sub-series include exterior and interior views, aerial views, and construction photographs. Also, photographs of renderings, architectural drawings, and models. Specifications, photostats of renderings and drawings, fact sheets, brochures, press releases, and miscellaneous papers are occasionally included. These items are not reflected in the overall count of the photographs.

The principal designer for the majority of the projects is either Max Abramovitz or Wallace K. Harrison, although projects by other architects are included. The attribution of principal designer is per Max Abramovitz as related to Janet Parks in 1996.

For a full accounting of the contents consult the Project Photographs Index in the Department of Drawings and Archives.

Project Records: Albums of Ezra Stoller Photographs

Sixteen albums containing 208 photographs now stored 11 album boxes. All photographs are black and white prints unless otherwise noted.

Album 1
ALCOA Technical Center 3 photographs of model

Album 1
Bell Systems Exhibit, New York World's Fair, 1964-1965 9 photographs of model

Album 2
Brandeis University 15 color transparencies (9 exterior, 6 interior)

Album 3
Brandeis University 31 photographs (22 exterior, 9 interior). 1 photo is inserted loose

Album 4
Brandeis University 27 photographs of Goldfarb Library, Faculty Center, and Men's Dormitories and Dining Center (17 exterior, 10 interior)

Album 5
Brandeis University. Goldman-Schwartz Art Studios 18 photographs ( 11 exterior, 7 interior)

Album 5
Brandeis University. Rose Art Museum 9 photographs (2 exterior, 7 interior)

Album 6
Brandeis University. Spingold Theater 11 photographs (5 exterior, 6 interior)

Album 6
Brandeis University. Spingold Theater 11 photographs (exterior)

Album 7
Columbia University. Law School 15 photographs (interior)

Album 1
Corning Building, New York, NY 2 photographs (exterior)

Album 8
Institute for Advance Studies, Princeton, NJ 12 photographs (2 exterior, 10 interior)

Album 9
New York World's Fair (1964-1965). Hall of Science 13 photographs (9 exterior, 4 interior). Inserted loose in album: 1960 Supplementary report on preparation of the site, and 7 photos of models and drawings of the Trylon and Perisphere from the 1939-1940 Fair

Album 8
Temple Beth Zion, Buffalo, NY 17 photographs (8 exterior, 9 interior)

Album 10
Union Bank Square, Los Angeles, CA 6 photos (5 exterior, 1 interior)

Album 11
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Krannert Center 9 photos (exterior and interior)

Project Records: Loose Photographs

159 photographs (all are black and white unless otherwise noted), 37 negatives, 9 color transparencies, and 64 slides (black and white and color) documenting more than 39 projects.

Box:14 Folder:5
Alcoa (Merwin, PA) 1 photo

Box:14 Folder:6
American Electric Power (Columbus, OH) 2 col. photos

Box:Oversize 4 Folder:1
American Electric Power (Columbus, OH) 6 negatives

Box:14 Folder:7-8
Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) 23 photos

Drawings of Brandeis have been removed from the file. Consult the Architectural Drawings Index in the Dept. of Drawings and Archives for the location.

Box:14 Folder:9
Brandeis University (Waltham, MA). Three Chapels 1 photo

Box:Oversize 5 Folder:1-4
Brandeis University (Waltham, MA). Three Chapels 20 photos (mounted)

Box:14 Folder:10
Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, NY). National Synchrotron Light Source 7 negatives

Box:14 Folder:11
Central Intelligence Agency (Langley, VA) 1 col. photo

Box:Oversize 5 Folder:5
Columbia University, East Campus (New York, NY) 3 photos (mounted)

Box:14 Folder:12
Columbia University Law School (New York, NY) 6 col. transparencies

Box:14 Folder:13
Corning Glass Works (Corning, NY) 1 photo

Box:14 Folder:14
Criminal Court/Family Court (Bronx, NY) 1 photo

Box:14 Folder:15
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH). Hopkins Center 1 photo

Box:Oversize 5 Folder:6
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH). Hopkins Center 1 photo (mounted)

Box:14 Folder:16
First National City Bank (New York, NY) 1 photo

Box:Oversize 4 Folder:2
Fountain Square South (Cincinnati, OH) 10 negatives

Box:14 Folder:17-18
Institute for Advance Study (Princeton, NJ). Library 7 photos

Box:14 Folder:19
La Guardia Airport (Queens, NY) 1 photo

Box:14 Folder:20
Nationwide Plaza (Columbus, OH) 1 photo

Box:14 Folder:21
New York World's Fair (1939-1940). Trylon and Perisphere 1 photo

Box:Oversize 4 Folder:3
New York World's Fair (1939-1940). Trylon and Perisphere 6 photos

Box:14 Folder:22
New York World's Fair (1939-1940). Unbuilt exhibition building 1 photo

Box:14 Folder:23
New York World's (1964-1965). Bell System Exhibit 3 photos

Box:14 Folder:24
New York World's Fair (1964-1965). Hall of Science 2 photos, 9 negatives, 1 col. slide

Box:14 Folder:25-26
Oregon State Capitol competition 7 photos

Box:14 Folder:27
Owens-Illinois (Toledo, OH) 1 photos

Sketches have been removed from the file. Consult the Architectural Drawings Index in the Dept. of Drawings and Archives for the location.

Box:Oversize 4 Folder:4
Owens-Illinois (Toledo, OH) 4 negatives

Box:14 Folder:28-29
Panther Hollow (Pittsburgh, PA) 9 photos, 1 col. transparency

Box:Oversize 1 Folder:9
Panther Hollow (Pittsburgh, PA) 4 photos

Box:14 Folder:30
Permanent World Capitol (Queens, NY) 1 photo

Box:14 Folder:31
Phoenix Mutual Life (Hartford, CT) 1 photo

Box:Oversize 5 Folder:7
Phoenix Mutual Life (Hartford, CT) 10 photos (mounted)

Box:14 Folder:32
Radcliffe College (Cambridge, MA). Currier House 1 photo

Box:14 Folder:32
Radcliffe College (Cambridge, MA). Hilles Library 1 photo

Box:Oversize 5 Folder:8
Radcliffe College (Cambridge, MA). Hilles Library 10 photos (mounted)

Box:14 Folder:33
Rockefeller (Nelson A.) apartment (New York, NY) 1 photo

Box:14 Folder:34
Rockefeller University (New York, NY). Caspary Hall 6 photos

Box:14 Folder:35
Rockefeller University (New York, NY). Faculty Building 2 photos

Box:14 Folder:36
Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (Miami, FL) 1 col. photo

Box:Oversize 1 Folder:10
Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (Miami, FL) 1 col. photo

Box:14 Folder:37-38
Temple Beth Zion (Buffalo, NY) 9 photos

Box:14 Folder:39
Tete Defense competition (Paris, France) 1 col. transparency

Box:14 Folder:40
Union Bank (Los Angeles, CA) 3 photos

Box:14 Folder:41
United States Military Academy (West Point, NY). Jewish Chapel 3 negatives

Box:14 Folder:42
United States Steel (Pittsburgh, PA) 2 photos

Box:15 Folder:1-2
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Assembly Hall 1 photo, 1 col. transparency, 1 negative

Box:Oversize 5 Folder:9
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Assembly Hall 1 photo (mounted)

Box:15 Folder:3
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hillel Foundation 1 photo

Box:Oversize 4 Folder:5
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hillel Foundation 3 photos

Box:Oversize 5 Folder:10
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Krannert Center 6 photos (mounted)

Box:15 Folder:4
Various projects 63 slides (black and white and col.)

Project Records: Project Files, [ca.1966-ca.1987]

Project Records: Specifications