Guide to the Carl L. Feiss papers,
[ca.1928]-1991

Collection Number: 2635

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

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Series I. Personal Papers

A. Personal and Biographical Data	Boxes 1-2, 59, 63
1. Family Correspondence
2. Personal Material
3. Feiss's Calendars
4. Feiss's Daily Planners
B. General Correspondence	Boxes 3-6, 61-63
1. Named Correspondence
2. Chronological Correspondence
3. Alphabetical Correspondence
Series II. Professional Papers

A. Publications and Speeches	Boxes 6-10, 59
1. Books
2. Articles and Speeches
3. Reports
B. Conferences and Education Interests	Boxes 11-12, 64
C. Organizations	Boxes 12-21, 61-62
D. Projects	Boxes 21-36, 62-63
E. Oversize Materials	Boxes 38-39
F. Reference Materials	Boxes 40-44, 52-58, 62-64
G. Oversize (Flat)	Boxes 49-51, 65
H. Edison Voicewriter Diamond Disks	Boxes 63
I. Audiocassettes	Boxes 64

Date	Description	Container
	Series I. Personal Papers
	Personal and Biographical Data
1926	Photographs, biographical data, certificates, programs, first published drawings.	Box 1	Folder 1
1949-1960	Documents relative to federal employment.	Box 1	Folder 2
1938-1954	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 3
n.d.	Photographs, 14+ color slides [daughters?]	Box 1	Folder 4
1936-1965	Articles and speeches.	Box 1	Folder 5
1944	Housing in Denver.	Box 1	Folder 6
1943	Data on Denver including a letter from Walter Blucher.	Box 1	Folder 7
1943-1944	Personal correspondence [examples of v-mail and censorship].	Box 1	Folder 8
1943	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 9
1942-1945	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 10
1942	Personal correspondence, Denver, vita, birth certificate.	Box 1	Folder 11
1942-1943	Personal correspondence re: draft status.	Box 1	Folder 12
1941-1943	Documents re: draft status.	Box 1	Folder 13-16
1939	Correspondence re: "Public Conversations on Music."	Box 1	Folder 17
1939	Personal correspondence [mostly with father].	Box 1	Folder 18
	[duplicates? tossed]	Box 1	Folder 19
1935-1938	Correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 20
1925	The Mabian [high school yearbook]	Box 1	Folder 21
1955-1970	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 22
1942-1944	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 23
1939-1940	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 24
1939	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 25
1938	Personal correspondence [Mexico].	Box 1	Folder 26
1937	Personal correspondence [Europe].	Box 1	Folder 27
1937	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 28
1936	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 29
1935	Personal correspondence [first letter re: Columbia].	Box 1	Folder 30
1933	Personal correspondence [at Cranbrook].	Box 1	Folder 31
1932	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 32
1931	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 33
1930-1933	Personal correspondence, clippings, photographs.	Box 1	Folder 34
1930	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 35
1929	Personal correspondence.	Box 1	Folder 36
1971	Outgoing correspondence. [Drafts of reports are included.]	Box 2	Folder 1-12
1970	Outgoing correspondence. [Drafts of reports are included.]	Box 2	Folder 13-24
1971	Correspondence with the University of Florida.	Box 2	Folder 25
1969	Outgoing correspondence.	Box 2	Folder 26-27
1968	Outgoing correspondence.	Box 2	Folder 28-33
1967	Outgoing correspondence.	Box 2	Folder 34-45
1967	Miscellaneous correspondence.	Box 2	Folder 46
1967	Miscellaneous correspondence and documents, A-Z.	Box 2	Folder 47-49
1966	Outgoing correspondence.	Box 2	Folder 50-61
	Feiss's Calendars
1992-1984	Calendars	Box 59	Folder 29
1983-1978	Calendars	Box 59	Folder 30
1978-1976	Calendars	Box 59	Folder 31
1976-1971	Calendars	Box 59	Folder 32
1970-1969	Calendars	Box 59	Folder 33
	Feiss's Daily Planners
1935-1960	Daily Planners	Box 63	Folder 26
1961-1969	Daily Planners	Box 63	Folder 27
1970-1976	Daily Planners [missing 1974-1975]	Box 63	Folder 28
ca. 1936	Notebook	Box 63	Folder 29
	General Correspondence
	[not available]	Box 3	Folder
1966	General correspondence, April to December.	Box 4	Folder 1
1965	General correspondence, November to December.	Box 4	Folder 2
1965	General correspondence, A-Z.	Box 4	Folder 3-6
1961-1962	General correspondence.	Box 4	Folder 7
1945-1946	General correspondence [Hitchcock].	Box 4	Folder 8
1942-1944	General correspondence [Podzemny].	Box 4	Folder 9
1943-1944	General correspondence.	Box 4	Folder 10
1941-1944	General correspondence [Russell Van Nest Black, Hans Blumenfield, and a scenario for a movie on housing].	Box 4	Folder 11
1942	Taft, Charles K. "Planning in Goshen, New York:" correspondence and drawings.	Box 4	Folder 12
1941-1942	National Resources Planning Boards, Hampton Roads Regional Defense Council, Norfolk, Virginia.	Box 4	Folder 13-16
1937-1942	Personal correspondence.	Box 4	Folder 17-20
1978	Speaking invitations declined.	Box 4	Folder 21
1976-1977	Correspondence with Sir James Jones.	Box 4	Folder 22
1975	Letter from Robert J. Lewis.	Box 4	Folder 23
1975	Invitation to 50th reunion of the University School, Cleveland.	Box 4	Folder 24
1974	Invitation to a book panel.	Box 4	Folder 25
1972	Correspondence with Senator Lawton Chiles.	Box 4	Folder 26
1973-1974	Correspondence with Grady Clay.	Box 4	Folder 27
1973	Correspondence with Walter Creese.	Box 4	Folder 27a
1973	Correspondence with Robert H. Doyle.	Box 4	Folder 28
1972	Correspondence with George H. Dudley.	Box 4	Folder 29
1973-1974	Correspondence wit Sir James Jones [see folder 22]	Box 4	Folder 30
1973	Correspondence with Gordon Kennedy, Jr.	Box 4	Folder 31
1972	Correspondence with James W. Moody, Jr.	Box 4	Folder 32
1972-1974	Correspondence with Richard Sharpe.	Box 4	Folder 33
1969	Correspondence re: Stonorov bust of Catherine Bauer Wurster.	Box 4	Folder 34
1969	Office expenses.	Box 4	Folder 35
1967	Vitia of job applicants.	Box 4	Folder 36
1967	Correspondence re: rail transportation.	Box 4	Folder 37
1967	Correspondence with Charles Watle, Jr., Indiana.	Box 4	Folder 38
1967	Correspondence with Earle W. Newton, St. Augustine.	Box 4	Folder 39
1967	Invitation to Tocks Island Regional Advisory Council.	Box 4	Folder 40
n.d.	Correspondence with James H. Scheuer, Congressman from New York re: urban design and civic beauty.	Box 4	Folder 41
1965-1966	Correspondence with Elizabeth H. Wright, Montgomery, Ala.	Box 4	Folder 42
1964-1965	Correspondence with Edward J. Quirin.	Box 4	Folder 43
1964	Correspondence with William E. McIntyre, Charlotte, North Carolina.	Box 4	Folder 44
1964	Correspondence with Virginia Outdoor Recreation Study Commission.	Box 4	Folder 45
1964	Correspondence with Rockville, Maryland.	Box 4	Folder 46
1964	Correspondence with Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies.	Box 4	Folder 47
1964	Correspondence with J.W. Upson re: Woodbury, Connecticut.	Box 4	Folder 48
1960	Correspondence with William T. Colloredo.	Box 4	Folder 49
1955	Correspondence with Martin Meyerson re: "Rehabitilability."	Box 4	Folder 50
1970	Correspondence with the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.	Box 5	Folder 1
1968	Correspondence with Milo B. Howard Jr. re: historic preservation in Alabama.	Box 5	Folder 2
1968	Correspondence, including 701 grant to Huntsville, Alabama.	Box 5	Folder 3
1970	American Assembly invitation.	Box 5	Folder 4
1971	Correspondence re: Appalachian Trail, Benton, MacKaye.	Box 5	Folder 5
1968	Correspondence with Associated Council of the Arts.	Box 5	Folder 6
1970	Correspondence with The Research Group, Atlanta.	Box 5	Folder 7
1970	Correspondence with Carolina Cape Fear Corporation.	Box 5	Folder 8
1968-1978	Correspondence with William Bonnee, University of Arkansas.	Box 5	Folder 9
1968	Correspondence with Calvin Kytle.	Box 5	Folder 10
1970-1973	Correspondence with Robert N. Anderson, Jr.	Box 5	Folder 11
1969-1970	Correspondence with The Conservation Foundation.	Box 5	Folder 12
1971	Miscellaneous correspondence.	Box 5	Folder 13
	[empty]	Box 5	Folder 14
1969	Correspondence re Historic Galveston.	Box 5	Folder 15
1967-1973	Correspondence re: Conservation at Williamsburg and Georgia.	Box 5	Folder 16
1972	Correspondence re: Interama in Florida.	Box 5	Folder 17
1969-1970	Correspondence re: Interplan Corporation.	Box 5	Folder 18
1967-1972	Lake Michigan Planning Council, Planning Memo.	Box 5	Folder 19
1971	Louisiana Regional Planning Council.	Box 5	Folder 20
1971	"A Two-Year Course in Geotechnics," Benton MacKaye.	Box 5	Folder 21
1970	Correspondence with Eugene W. Leake, Maryland Institute.	Box 5	Folder 22
1971	Reports on McLean Gardens, Washington Citizens for City Living.	Box 5	Folder 23
1970	Correspondence re: Interplan Corporation [see f18 above].	Box 5	Folder 24
1970	Correspondence re: creating a historic preservation district in New Orleans.	Box 5	Folder 25
1970	Letters re: fees.	Box 5	Folder 26
1969-1971	Correspondence re: planning contest in Perugia, Italy.	Box 5	Folder 27
1970	Correspondence re: Princeton Conference.	Box 5	Folder 28
1970	Correspondence with S. Douglas Fleet, Richmond, Virginia.	Box 5	Folder 29
1971	Correspondence with Royal Society for Promotion of Health.	Box 5	Folder 30
1969	Correspondence re: Salzburg Seminar in American Studies.	Box 5	Folder 31
1971	Correspondence re: House of Representatives bill on Environmental Quality.	Box 5	Folder 32
1970-1971	Correspondence with Robert Stipe, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.	Box 5	Folder 33
1968	Correspondence re: consultancy in Kentucky.	Box 5	Folder 34
1970	Correspondence re: Virginia Historical Landmarks.	Box 5	Folder 35
1969	Letter to Walter Muir Whitehill re: Arthur Dow, autobiographical.	Box 5	Folder 36
1968-1972	Correspondence, A-R.	Box 5	Folder 37-55
1968-1972	Correspondence, S-Z.	Box 6	Folder 1-7
1966	Correspondence, A-Z.	Box 6	Folder 8-27
	Professional Papers
	Publications and Speeches
n.d.	Copy for chapter in Open Space Book	Box 6	Folder 28
1975	Citizen?s Guide for Historic Conservation.	Box 6	Folder 29-32
1970	Letter re: publication of Urban Problems and Techniques 2.	Box 6	Folder 33
1970	Chapter on Washington for the book, World Capitals.	Box 6	Folder 34
1969	Chapter in The New City.	Box 6	Folder 35
1969	"The History of Planned New Towns in the United States."	Box 6	Folder 36
1969	Reference in The Courant Magazine, September 21, 1969, to Feiss having written the Introduction to Portrait of Essex by Marie Moore.	Box 6	Folder 37
1966	"With Heritage So Rich," documents and correspondence of Special Committee on Historic Preservation.	Box 6	Folder 38-42
1945-1956	Correspondence with Frederic R. Stevenson, much re: publication of Our Heritage of Planned Communities.	Box 6	Folder 43-44
1949	"Colorado State Planning and Zoning Acts."	Box 7	Folder 1
1944	"Denver Municipal Year Book."	Box 7	Folder 2
1939-1944	"The Planned Community: A North American Heritage," with Frederick Stevenson; drafts, photographs, maps, research resources, correspondence.	Box 7	Folder 3-21
1976	"America?s Proudest Architectural Achievements of the Past 200 Years," AIA Journal	Box 7	Folder 22
1975	[The World Future Society]	Box 7	Folder 23
1973	[Article for The Louisville Times]	Box 7	Folder 24
1972	"The Training and Planning and Zoning Officials," draft of speech.	Box 7	Folder 25
1972	"What do We do Next for Florida?" draft; The News and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina, report of a speech by Feiss.	Box 7	Folder 26
1971	"It's What's Inside That Counts," Preservation News.	Box 7	Folder 27
1971	"Establishment of a National Land Use Policy" and related materials.	Box 7	Folder 28
1971	"Regional Planning" and related materials.	Box 7	Folder 29
1971	"Review," Aspen/Dreams and Dilemmas in Historic Perservation	Box 7	Folder 30
1971	"Random Meditation of the Inderdisciplinary Man in the Modern World."	Box 7	Folder 31
1970	"The Demise of the Grand Rapids City Hall," The Law in Preservation Issues.	Box 7	Folder 32
1970	Summary of remarks on the National Trust for Historic Preservation at the Second Annual Indiana Conference on Historic Preservation.	Box 7	Folder 33
1970	"Art and Wasteland," Art and Education.	Box 7	Folder 34
1970	"The Architect, the Environment and the World," speech for UIA Town Planning Commission.	Box 7	Folder 35
1970	"The Urban Growth and New Community Development Act of 1970."	Box 7	Folder 36
1970	"Testimony on S.3354, National Land Use Policy before the Senate Interior and Isular Affairs Committee.	Box 7	Folder 37
1969	"An Agenda for Action."	Box 7	Folder 38
1969	"Build Utopia Now," unpublished article with correspondence.	Box 7	Folder 39
1969	"The Role of the State in Environmental Design." Environmental Design Legislation for States.	Box 7	Folder 40
1969	"Carl Feiss in Conversation with Professor Arthur Ling," Journal of the Town Planning Institute.	Box 7	Folder 41
1969	"The Heritage of the Past in the City of Tomorrow," UIA Review of the International Union of Architects.	Box 7	Folder 42
1969	People and Planning. Report of the Committee on Public Participation in Planning, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Feiss is listed as a person who gave assistance to Skeffington Committee, but there is no indication of what his contribution was.	Box 7	Folder 43
1968	"True or False: Living Architecture, Old and New," Historic Preservation.	Box 7	Folder 44
1968	Testimony on Urban Highways before the Senate Committee on Public Works, Subcommittee on Roads, with correspondence and clippings.	Box 7	Folder 45
1967	"Taking Stock: A Resume of Planning Accomplishments in the United States," Environment and Change: The Next Fifty Years.	Box 7	Folder 46
1967	AIP Newsletter. Report on the 50th Anniversary program with a picture of Feiss.	Box 7	Folder 47
1967	Town and Country Planning.	Box 7	Folder 48
1967	"USA: New Communities?or Their Simulacrum," Town and Country Planning.	Box 7	Folder 49
1967	"Survey, Evaluation and Registration," Historic Preservation Tomorrow.	Box 7	Folder 50
1966	Speech, Connecticut Society of Architects.	Box 7	Folder 51
1966	"Outer Skins and Contact Environments," AIA Journal. Also text for speech on the same subject.	Box 7	Folder 52
1966	"Red Light, Green Light," Symposium on Urban Development, McMasters University.	Box 7	Folder 53
1966	"Let's Pick Up Some Bricks and Make Music," Virginia Bearing Wall Conference.	Box 7	Folder 54
1966	"New Towns?An American Tradition," American Builder Magazine.	Box 7	Folder 55
1966	"The Responsibility of State Government for Good Urban Design," Commission to Study the Necessity and Feasibility of Metropolitan Government; report, drafts and correspondence.	Box 7	Folder 56
1965	Book review for AIA Journal, August 1965. Reps, The Making of Urban America.	Box 8	Folder 1
1965	"The Architecture of Civilization," address to AIA Convention, Washington, D.C., June 17, 1965.	Box 8	Folder 2
1965	"Urban Waters," address to White House Conference on Natural Beauty, May 24, 1965.	Box 8	Folder 3
1965	Book review for AIA Journal, May 1965. Appleyard, Lynch and Myer, The View From the Road. And reply by authors.	Box 8	Folder 4
1965	Book review for The National Trust, May/June 1965. Reps, The Making of Urban America.	Box 8	Folder 5
1965	"Agenda for Fifty Years," address to Pacific Southwest Council American Society of Civil Engineers, April 20, 1965.	Box 8	Folder 6
1965	"Planning the Well-Designed City," The First Annual Peter B. Andrews Memorial Lecture, Syracuse University, March 11, 1965.	Box 8	Folder 7
1965	"Progress and Poverty," article in Law and Contemporary Problems: Urban Problems and Prospects, Winter 1965.	Box 8	Folder 8
1965	Copy for chapter in Open Space Book	Box 8	Folder 9
1964	Book review. Chermayeff and Alexander, Community and Privacy.	Box 8	Folder 10
1964	"Planning Theory and Practice in the United States," for Mr. L. Virgili, November 12, 1964.	Box 8	Folder 11
1964	"Coordination with Community Master Plans: The Eight R's of Modernization," address to Building Research Institute 1964 Fall Conference: "Modernization of Buildings."	Box 8	Folder 12
1963	Book review. Lubove, The Progressives and the Slums.	Box 8	Folder 13
1964	Book review for AIA Journal, November 1964. Osborn and Whittick, The New Towns: The Answer to Megalopolis.	Box 8	Folder 14
1964	"Little View into a Big World," article in AIP Journal, June 9, 1964.	Box 8	Folder 15
1964	"An Introduction to the Preservation of Historic Areas in the United States of America," a paper for the International Federation for Housing and Planning Standing Committee of "Historic Urban Areas," Venice, May 22-24, 1964.	Box 8	Folder 16
1964	"The City as a Vehicle of Faith," article in The Washington Seminar, March 2-3, 1964.	Box 8	Folder 17
1964	"The Design of the Second United States," keynote address for 33rd Annual Meeting of the National Housing Conference, Washington, D.C., February 23-25, 1964.	Box 8	Folder 18
1964	"The Voice of the City," address to The Friends of the University Library, The University of Miami, January 31, 1964.	Box 8	Folder 19
1964	"The Preservation of America's Heritage in Historic Buildings and Communities," address to Society for the Preservation of Landmarks in Western New York, Inc., January 13, 1964.	Box 8	Folder 20
1963	"Unwin's American Journeys," two part article in Town and Country Planning, November and December 1963. "America's Debt to Sir Raymond Unwin," article in Journal of the Town Planning Institute, November 1963.	Box 8	Folder 21
1963	Book reviews for Progressive Architecture, August 1963. Morton and Lucia White, The Intellectual Versus the City. Gutking, The Twilight of the Cities.	Box 8	Folder 22
1963	Response to "Urban Renewal: Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?" by Barbara Snow in Antiques, March 1963.	Box 8	Folder 23
1963	"What is the Citizen's Role in Community Planning?" address to The Objectives of Planning Better Cities for North Carolina Conference, January 15, 1963.	Box 8	Folder 24
1962	ASPO Index to Proceedings of National Planning Conferences, October 1962.	Box 8	Folder 25
1962	Book reviews for Journal of the American Institute of Planners. Ed. Rodwin, The Future Metropolis. Ed. Perloff, Planning and the Urban Context.	Box 8	Folder 26
1962	"The Coast of Baltimore," article in Architects' Report, Summer 1962.	Box 8	Folder 27
1962	"Criteria for Historic District Selection," address to The Connecticut Historic District Conference, March 12, 1962.	Box 8	Folder 28
1962	"Design in the Urban World: The Meaning of Development Plans," an address before the Annual Meeting of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association, January 17, 1962.	Box 8	Folder 29
1962	"Community Architecture: An Appeal to Action," pamphlet for AIA.	Box 8	Folder 30
1961	"Planning Absorbs Zoning," article in The Journal of the American Institute of Planning, May 1961.	Box 8	Folder 31
1961	"The Dramatic Experiment in Architectural and Planning Education," article in AIA Journal, March 1961.	Box 8	Folder 32
1961	"Zoning Revisited," January 16, 1961.	Box 8	Folder 33
1960

Guide to the Carl L. Feiss papers, [ca.1928]-1991

Collection Number: 2635

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

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Guide to the Carl L. Feiss papers,
[ca.1928]-1991

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library