Jan Jennings papers, 1993-2010.
Collection Number: 23-16-3913
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Jan Jennings papers, 1993-2010.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
23-16-3913
Abstract:
Exhibit items, records and related material for an exhibition researched and designed
by Jennning's undergraduate and graduate students (2003-2006).
Creator:
Jennings, Jan, 1946-
Quanitities:
4.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Professor emerita in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell
University.
Jennings received a B.S. in Housing and Interior Design (1968) and a M.S. in Housing
and Urban Studies (1969) both from Oklahoma State University.
Jenning's research interests focus on ordinary American buildings and interiors,
as well as contemporary interior design history, theory, and criticism. She was a
professor at Cornell from 1984-2012.
Exhibit items, records and related material for an exhibition researched and designed
by Jennning's undergraduate and graduate students (2003-2006).
Includes slides used for teaching; prints and negatives used in her book Cheap and
Tasteful Dwellings; photos and slides of student winners of various competitions (1993-2005);
information about Interior Archetypes Research and Teaching Project , initiated in
1997.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Jan Jennings papers, #23-16-3913. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
See also collections #47-10-3394, #23-2-2817 and #23-16-1472 for additional biographical
information.
Names:
Jennings, Jan, 1946-
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
New York State College of Human Ecology. Design and Environmental Analysis
Subjects:
Architecture, Domestic -- United States -- Designs and plans
Interior architecture -- Study and teaching.
Form and Genre Terms:
Slides (photographs).
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 |
Records and related items for an exhibition researched and designed by Jan Jenning's
undergraduate and graduate students
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2003-2006 | |
| Box 2 |
Slides used for research and teaching - American Vernacular Architecture and Interiors
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| Box 3 |
Slides and photos of student competitions; Sketchbook and student project by Elizabeth
O'Brien
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1993-2005 | |
| Box 3 |
Interior design field trips
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1994-2007 | |
| Box 3 |
Material on Interior Archetypes Research and Teaching Project
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2007-2009 | |
| Box 3 |
Book "Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings"
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2005 | |
| Box 3 |
Booklets created for DEA 201
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2004-2005 | |
| Box 4 |
Prints and negatives of images used in Jan's book, Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings
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| Box 5 |
Detailed description of what is in box 5
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| Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Appointment letter
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1991-05-09 |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Material from tenure evaluation
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1997 |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Teaching material DEA 201 and 2201
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1994-1998 |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Syllabi, Project 1: Walldwelling
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1993-2010 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Teaching Project 2: Philosophy of Design; Project 3: Cavity; Project 4: Light Cavity;
Project 5 and installation: The Museum Effect
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1993-2010 |
| Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Project 5 and installation: Rites of Passage and Lightbody; Connections and Prospects
installation; Deja vu Installation
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1996-2009 |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Interdisciplinary teaching
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1995-1997 |
| Box 5 | Folder 8 |
History and Theory of the Interior
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1996-2010 |
| Box 59 |
DesignCity field study
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1994-2008 | |
| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Design Theory and Criticism
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2003-2008 |
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Scope and Contents
Samples from "Time and Chair" and Un-Room exhibitions
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| Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Intypes Unroom video
DVD-4335 |
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| Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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| Box 4 |
Three photographs used in "Time and a Chair" exhibition
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1912, 1915, 1926 | |
| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Research material
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1993-2013 |
| Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Presentation of intypes scholar segments played as part of the presentation "Intypes:
Identifying, Defining and Naming Interior Archetypes"
CD 6632 |
2013 |
| Digital |
The digital preservation copy may be made available on request if a delivery copy is not already online.
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Scope and Contents
From Environmental Design Research Association Conference in Rhode Island
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| Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Vitae
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2003 |
| Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Promotion dossier: Statement of purpose; teaching record; Teaching Design Course:
Studio 201 and Field Study; Teaching History Course: Lecture 251
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2003 |
| Box 5 | Folder 14 |
Promotion dossier: Teaching History Course: lecture 243 and seminar 643; Teaching
Theory and Criticism: lecture 668; Teaching Interdisciplinary Design and Teaching
Research
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2003 |
| Box 5 | Folder 15 |
Promotion dossier: Research and service record
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2003 |
| Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Promotion dossier: Research documentation
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2003 |
| Box 5 | Folder 17 |
Syllabi DEA 243
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1995-1997 |
| Box 6 |
Permission forms for all the photographers whose photographs appear on the InTypes
(Interior Archetypes) Research and Teaching Project website.
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2008-2014 | |
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Scope and Contents
This project, initiated in 1997, creates a typology of contemporary interior design
practices that are derived from reiterative historical designs that span time and
style and cultural boundries.
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