Guide to the Glenn H. Beyer Papers,
1939-1969

Collection Number: 53-4-1548

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
M.E. Warren
Date completed:
September 1990
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, March 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Glenn H. Beyer papers, 1939-1969.
Collection Number:
53-4-1548
Creator:
Glenn H. Beyer, 1913-1969.
Quantity:
10 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Manuscripts, gallery proofs, correspondence, questionnaires, photographs, research material, notes, printed materials, film strips, monographs, and articles.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Manuscripts and galley proofs; correspondence; questionnaires; photographs, negatives, and slides; research material, notes, and rough drafts pertaining to rural housing; printed materials; and 2 victrola records and 3 film strips relating to the 1950 census.
Language:
Collection material in English


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Glenn Beyer was born in Chester, South Dakota in 1913. He earned degrees from Augustana (South Dakota) College in 1935 and George Washington University in 1939. He held positions in several federal housing agencies until he became Professor of Housing and Design at Cornell University in 1947. He became Director of the Cornell Center for Housing and Environmental Studies (formerly the Housing Research Center) upon its establishment in 1950. Beyer wrote several books, monographs, and articles on rural and farm housing and housing for the elderly. Many works were concerned with Upstate New York housing practices.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Manuscripts and galley proofs; correspondence; questionnaires; photographs, negatives, and slides; research material, notes, and rough drafts pertaining to rural housing; printed materials; and 2 victrola records and 3 film strips relating to the 1950 census.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Beyer, Glenn H., 1913-1969.
Cornell University--Faculty.

Subjects:
Housing--New York (State)
Housing, Rural.
Aged--Dwellings.
College teachers.

Form and Genre Terms:
Galley proofs.
Motion pictures.
Negatives.
Photographs.
Questionnaires.
Color slides.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Glenn H. Beyer papers, #53-4-1548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Series I. Chronological correspondence files, 1955-1969
1955
July-Aug.
Box 1 Folder 1
1955
Sept.
Box 1 Folder 2
1955
Oct.
Box 1 Folder 3
1955
Nov.
Box 1 Folder 4
1955
Dec.
Box 1 Folder 5
1956
Jan.
Box 1 Folder 6
1956
Feb.-Mar.
Box 1 Folder 7
1956
Apr.-May
Box 1 Folder 8
1956
June
Box 1 Folder 9
1956
July-Aug.
Box 1 Folder 10
1956
Sept.-Oct.
Box 1 Folder 11
1956
Nov.
Box 1 Folder 12
1956
Dec.
Box 1 Folder 13
1957
Jan.-Feb.
Box 1 Folder 14
1957
Mar.
Box 1 Folder 15
1957
Apr.-May
Box 1 Folder 16
1957
June
Box 1 Folder 17
1957
July-Aug.
Box 1 Folder 18
1957
Sept.-Oct.
Box 1 Folder 19
1957
Nov.-Dec.
Box 1 Folder 20
1958
Jan.-Feb.
Box 1 Folder 21
1958
Mar.-Apr.
Box 1 Folder 22
1958
May-June
Box 1 Folder 23
1958
July-Aug.
Box 1 Folder 24
1958
Sept.-Oct.
Box 1 Folder 25
1958
Nov.-Dec.
Box 1 Folder 26
1959
Jan.-Feb.
Box 1 Folder 27
1959
Mar.-Apr.
Box 1 Folder 28
1959
May-June
Box 2 Folder 1
1959
July-Aug.
Box 2 Folder 2
1959
Sept.-Oct.
Box 2 Folder 3
1959
Nov.-Dec.
Box 2 Folder 4
1960
Jan.
Box 2 Folder 5
1960
Feb.-Mar.
Box 2 Folder 6
1960
Apr.-June
Box 2 Folder 7
1960
July-Sept.
Box 2 Folder 8
1960
Oct.-Dec.
Box 2 Folder 9
1961
Jan.-Feb.
Box 2 Folder 10
1961
Mar.-May
Box 2 Folder 11
1961
June-July
Box 2 Folder 12
1961
Aug.-Dec.
Box 2 Folder 13
1962
Jan.-May
Box 2 Folder 14
1962
June-July
Box 2 Folder 15
1962
Sept.
Box 2 Folder 16
1962
Oct.
Box 2 Folder 17
1962
Nov.-Dec.
Box 2 Folder 18
1963
Jan.-Mar.
Box 2 Folder 19
1963
Apr.-May
Box 2 Folder 20
1963
June-July
Box 2 Folder 21
1963
Aug.-Oct.
Box 2 Folder 22
1963
Nov.-Dec.
Box 2 Folder 23
1964
Jan.-Feb.
Box 2 Folder 24
1964
Mar.-Apr.
Box 2 Folder 25
1964
May-July
Box 3 Folder 1
1964
Aug.-Sept.
Box 3 Folder 2
1964
Oct.-Dec.
Box 3 Folder 3
1965
Jan.-Feb.
Box 3 Folder 4
1965
Mar.-Apr.
Box 3 Folder 5
1965
May
Box 3 Folder 6
1965
June-July
Box 3 Folder 7
1965
Aug.
Box 3 Folder 8
1965
Sept.
Box 3 Folder 9
1965
Oct.
Box 3 Folder 10
1965
Nov.-Dec.
Box 3 Folder 11
1966
Jan.
Box 3 Folder 12
1966
Feb.-Apr.
Box 3 Folder 13
1966
May-July
Box 3 Folder 14
1966
Aug.-Sept.
Box 3 Folder 15
1966
Oct.-Dec.
Box 3 Folder 16
1967
Jan.-Mar.
Box 3 Folder 17
1967
Apr.-Aug.
Box 3 Folder 18
1967
Sept.-Dec.
Box 3 Folder 19
1968
Jan.-May
Box 3 Folder 20
1968
June-Aug.
Box 3 Folder 21
1968
Sept.-Dec.
Box 3 Folder 22
1969
Jan.-May
Box 3 Folder 23
1969
June-Dec.
Box 3 Folder 24
Series II. Subject files
1964-1968
Agency for International Development (AID)
Box 3 Folder 25-27
1964-1968
Agency for International Development (AID) - official papers and authorizations (including WCI)
Box 3 Folder 28
1963-1969
Agency for International Development (AID) - 7539 contract and amendments; detailed work plan; standardized regulations
Box 3 Folder 29
1945-1946
American University Course
Box 3 Folder 30
1950
"Analysis of Housing Need in Oak Ridge" (see also box 14)
Box 3 Folder 31-32
1954
"An Economic Appraisal of the Miami Metropolitan Area with Emphasis on Miami Beach"
Box 4 Folder 1-6
1964
Application for research grant - architecture
Box 4 Folder 7
1962-1968
Articles - published and unpublished
Box 4 Folder 8
1967
Article: Neighborhoods - personal, not published
Box 4 Folder 9
1958-1959
Bathroom
Box 4 Folder 10
1948-1966
Beyer - articles, talks, comments, papers
Box 4 Folder 11
1964-1965
Carreiro, Joseph - Search Committee for Chairmanship, Department of Housing and Design
Box 4 Folder 12
1968-1969
Carter, Lisle C. - Center for Housing and Environmental Studies
Box 4 Folder 13
1952-1953
Climate Study
Box 4 Folder 14
1959-1961
College of Architecture
Box 4 Folder 15-16
1960-1966
College of Architecture - faculty meetings
Box 4 Folder 17
1968
Columbia University demonstration
Box 4 Folder 18
1966
"The Community Land Use Game"
Box 4 Folder 19
1953-1958
Conference on Building Documentation
Box 4 Folder 20
1953
Conference on Methodology in Housing Research North-East Regional Housing Research Project NE-7
Box 4 Folder 21
1948-1951
Contracts, agreements
Box 4 Folder 22
1960-1961
Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 23
1966
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Box 4 Folder 24
1954-1958
Documentation
Box 4 Folder 25
1958-1959
Documentation
Box 4 Folder 26-27
1958
Documentation Study - Ford Proposal
Box 4 Folder 28
1950-1951
Extended Monroe County survey
Box 4 Folder 29
1947
FHA - Industrialized Housing Branch
Box 4 Folder 30
1959
Federal-State aging
Box 4 Folder 31
1964
Ford Foundation - India trip
Box 4 Folder 32
Galley
Box 4 Folder 33
1964
Hotel Project no. 453
Box 4 Folder 34
1955
Houses are for People
Box 4 Folder 35-37
1956
Houses are for People
Box 4 Folder 38-39
1956-1957
Housing: A Factual Analysis - Reader's Reports
Box 4 Folder 40
1961
Housing Center Report
Box 4 Folder 41
Housing for Aged - Ford Foundation
Box 4 Folder 42
Housing Materials Study
Box 5 Folder 1-2
1959-1967
re. housing research
Box 5 Folder 3-5
1961
Housing Research Center brochure, Cornell University
Box 5 Folder 6
1951
Housing Research Center Values Study -draft of report
Box 5 Folder 7
1950-1952
Housing Value Studies
Box 5 Folder 8-10
1950-1967
"Important Documents"
Box 5 Folder 11
India
Box 5 Folder 12
1964-1965
India - Housing Mission (Ford Foundation)
Box 5 Folder 13-14
1965
"India's Urban Housing - a Report to the Ford Foundation"
Box 5 Folder 15
1939
Low Income Housing Area Survey - WPA
Box 5 Folder 17-20
1949
Lustron House - Excerpts from Final Report
Box 5 Folder 21
1965
Lutheran Association of Ithaca
Box 5 Folder 22
1964
McGraw Housing
Box 5 Folder 23
Mailing lists, miscellaneous, etc.
Box 5 Folder 24
1964
Market study on residential air conditioning
Box 5 Folder 25
1951
Material on Hired Man
Box 5 Folder 26
1969
Memos to Long from Glen and Barclay
Box 5 Folder 27
1960
Middle-income housing and rehabilitation
Box 5 Folder 28
Minutes - code
Box 5 Folder 29
Newsclippings, pamphlets, articles, etc. from scrapbook
Box 5 Folder 30-34
1969
Newsclippings
Box 5 Folder 35
1954
New York State Commerce Review
Box 5 Folder 36
1967
The Next Fifty Years - 1967-2017, includes C. Abrams Paper "Housing in the Year 2000" with Remarks by G.H. Beyer (to Ewald)
Box 5 Folder 37
1951
North Eastern Commuting Study
Box 5 Folder 38
Outline for research proposals
Box 5 Folder 39
1959-1964
Papers, testimonies
Box 5 Folder 40
1956-1958
Permissions
Box 5 Folder 41
1956-1959
Permission file
Box 5 Folder 42
1961
Personal - Beyer sabbatic
Box 5 Folder 43-44
1962-1968
Personal
Box 5 Folder 45
"Plastics in Building Trade"
Box 5 Folder 46
1963
Publications from the Cornell Studies in Intergroup Relations
Box 5 Folder 47
1951-1969
Public Housing, miscellany
Box 6 Folder 1
1953-1955
Public Housing Research Proposal (Social Effects of Public Housing)
Box 6 Folder 2-3
1967-1969
Puerto Rico
Box 6 Folder 4-7
1952
Prefab Study
Box 6 Folder 8-10
1966
President's Committee to Study the College of Home Economics
Box 6 Folder 11
1969
President's Committee to Study Low-Cost Ithaca Housing (Mackesey - chairman; O. Winston - vice-chairman)
Box 6 Folder 12
1965
"Proposal to the Agency for International Development from Cornell University ... Urban Housing Policy in Latin America..."
Box 6 Folder 13
1958
Proposal to Study the Housing Needs of the Elderly
Box 6 Folder 14
1946
Reading file, Sept.-Dec.
Box 6 Folder 15-17
1947
Reading file, Jan.-Mar.
Box 6 Folder 18-20
1947
Reading file, Apr.-June
Box 6 Folder 21-23
1947
Reading file, July-Dec.
Box 6 Folder 24-26
1947
Reading file, Oct.
Box 6 Folder 27
1947-1958
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) - Greenport Basin Case
Box 6 Folder 28-29
1968
"Report on Housing in the Bahama Islands" (see also box 14)
Box 6 Folder 30-31
1949-1955
Regional Housing Survey Laboratory
Box 6 Folder 32-33
1969
"Research Methods for Housing and Urbanization Studies in Developing Countries" by Margaret E. Woods and Earl W. Morris
Box 6 Folder 34-39
1950
Research Needed in Urban Land Use and Housing
Box 7 Folder 1
1945-1955
No. 8 Reynolds Metal Company
Box 7 Folder 2-3
1945
Rural Housing Study, Cortland County, NY
Box 20 Folder 1-7
1954
Sabbatic correspondence
Box 7 Folder 4-5
1967-1968
Search Committee - Deanship of Home Economics
Box 7 Folder 6-7
Secondary Farm Housing
Box 7 Folder 8
1962-1963
"Shelter and Care for the Aging in Western Countries" (tentative book title), Austria, Denmark, England (see also 8-6)
Box 7 Folder 9
1962-1963
"Shelter and Care for the Aging in Western Countries" (tentative book title), Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands
Box 7 Folder 10
1962-1963
"Shelter and Care for the Aging in Western Countries" (tentative book title), Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland (see also 8-7)
Box 7 Folder 11
1962-1963
"Shelter and Care for the Aging in Western Countries" (tentative book title), United States
Box 7 Folder 12-13
1968
Stockholm trip - UN conference (correspondence) (pd. from CHES)
Box 7 Folder 14
1960
Study of Bathroom Equipment and Planning Requirements
Box 7 Folder 15
1962-1968
Sweden
Box 7 Folder 16
1969
Sympathy notes, greeting cards
Box 7 Folder 17-19
1961-1962
Tape recordings while abroad
Box 7 Folder 20
1966
U.S.-Mexican seminar, Mexico City, sponsored by HEW
Box 7 Folder 21
1948
USDA - Marketing and Research Study schedules
Box 20 Folder 8
1966-1969
University faculty minutes and notices
Box 7 Folder 22-25
1961
University Long Range Planning Committee
Box 7 Folder 26
1967
The Urban Explosion in Latin America galley proof (partial) and index (?)
Box 7 Folder 27
1965-1966
Urbanization book permissions
Box 7 Folder 28
1959-1960
Values proposal #3
Box 7 Folder 29
1966
Woodshole - conference (with Department of Housing and Urban Development)
Box 7 Folder 30-31
1954-1960
Youngstown Kitchens
Box 7 Folder 32-35
Bahamas (see also box 6)
Box 8 Folder 1-3
1948
Oak Ridge, Tenn. housing (see also box 3)
Box 8 Folder 4
1961
Venezuela, H.P. Greep Memorandum on Housing Finance in
Box 8 Folder 5
"Shelter and Care for the Aging in Western Countries" (see also 8-6)
Box 8 Folder 6
"Shelter and Care for the Aging in Western Countries" (see also 8-7)
Box 8 Folder 7
Miscellany
Box 8 Folder 8
Series III. Photographs
Broome County #1-#304
Box 9
Broome County #305-#441
Box 10
Chemung County #1-105
Box 10
Chemung County #106-#189
Box 11
Clinton County #1-#155
Box 11
Clinton County #156-#410
Box 12
Dutchess County #6-#19
Box 12
Dutchess County #20-#311
Box 13
Dutchess County #312-#648
Box 14
Dutchess County #649-#741
Box 15
Monroe County #1-#127
Box 15
Monroe County #128-#327
Box 16
Monroe County #328-#564
Box 17
"Pictures of houses pulled as possible cover for NE 20 Publication"
Box 18
Slides and photos (and negatives) re housing, include European housing for elderly
Box 8
Kitchens and pre-fabricated houses - photographs and glass slides (also index cards of kitchen supplies)
Box 19
Series IV. Printed material
Publications
Box 21
Series V. Miscellany
Day books, notebooks
Box 20
Photograph album: "Lustron"
Box 22
Scrapbook on housing, kitchens, etc.
Box 22
Photostat copy of large greeting card: "Season's Greetings, 1966-1967"
Mapcase