Elbert Peets papers, 1883-1983,-1904-1974 (bulk)
Collection Number: 2772
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Elbert Peets papers, 1883-1983,-1904-1974 (bulk)
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2772
Abstract:
Includes correspondence, reports, clippings, photographs, plans, and drawings related
to projects on which Peets worked; material on the L'Enfant plan for Washington, D.C.,
of which Peets was a major proponent and guardian; material related to articles and
books by or about Peets, including photographs and negatives from the book Civic Art;
and personal correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and family papers.
Creator:
Peets, Elbert, 1886-1968.
Peets, Elbert, 1886-1968. (Title of work: American Vetruvius: an architect\'s handbook
of civic art..)
Quanitities:
4.2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Biographical chronology
CHRONOLOGY |
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May 5, 1886 | Born Cleveland Ohio to Edward Orville Peets and Mary Curetta Houghton Peets | |
Graduated from Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio | ||
1912 | B.A. magna cum laude, Western Reserve University; First Scholarship Honors, Phi Beta Kappa | |
Foreman for H.U. Horvath, landscape architect and nurseryman while in college | ||
1915 | M.L.A., Harvard University, School of Landscape Architecture and City Planning; instructed in horticulture at Harvard, 1914-1915 | |
June 1915-June 1916 | Worked for Pray, Hubbard and White, Landscape Architects, making plans for land subdivisions | |
June 1916-Jan. 1917 | Worked with Werner Hegemann on Kohler, Wisconsin, a "company" town, in Sheboygan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin--subdivisions, parks, playground, cemeteries | |
Jan. 1917-Dec. 1918 | Civilian Planning Engineer with the U.S. Army, Camp Planning Section, Construction Division. Made plans for: Hospitals (Staten Island, Colonia, Otisville, etc.); Remount Stations | |
Jan. 1919-Apr. 1920 | In practice with Werner Hegemann on: Washington Highlands, large subdivision in Milwaukee, Wisconsin | |
Apr. 1920-Mar. 1921 | Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship: London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam | |
Apr. 1921-May 1922 | Continued practice with Werner Hegemann; collaborated with Hegemann in writing Civic Art: The American Vitruvius | |
June 1922-June 1923 | Wyomissing Park, large subdivision including areas for working people, Reading, Pennsylvania | |
July 1923-July 1933 | Private practice in Cleveland, Ohio; work included gardens, parks, land subdivisions; also wrote articles | |
July 1933-Nov. 1933 | Cleveland City Planning Commission; parks, playgrounds, civic improvements | |
Nov. 1933-Apr. 1934 | U.S. Department of Agriculture; layout of roads and other site planning work at Beltsville, Maryland; representative of A.D. Taylor, President of ASLA | |
May 1934-Nov. 1935 | Private practice in Cleveland; writing | |
Nov. 1935-Feb. 1938 | U.S. Farm Resettlement Administration in Washington; principal town planner for Greendale, Wisconsin | |
Feb. 1938-Apr. 1939 | Catalina Island, California; plans and report on the future development of the Wrigley Estate and the town of Avalon | |
Apr. 1938-1944 | Chief of Site Planning Section, U.S. Housing Authority, and Federal Public Housing Authority | |
1939 | Report on City Planning and Housing for San Juan, Puerto | |
1941 | Report for the National Resources Planning Board (NRPB): "An Interior Program of Planning Studies for the Physical Development of Puerto Rico" (with Hale Walker and Tracy Augur) | |
1944 | Lectured at the New York Museum of National History on Aerial Urban Reconnaissance and Site Recognition | |
1945 | Consultant in Town Planning for FPHA and USHA | |
1945-1948 | Prepared plans for the extension of Greendale; drafted a zoning ordinance for Greendale | |
1945-1951 | Housing consultant and site planner for the Municipal Housing Authority of San Juan, Puerto Rico | |
1946-1947 | Site and City Planner for Phillip Klutznick, American Community Builders, Park Forest, Illinois | |
1950-1954 | Member of the Fine Arts Commission, Washington | |
1951-1953 | Consultant to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission | |
1950-1960 | Lecturer at Yale and Harvard; consultant to several private planning firms; Harland Bartholomew; McGaughan and Johnson; plan for the S.W. Washington Redevelopment with Louis Justement | |
1951-1962 | Worked with sculptor Felix de Weldon on site planning for memorials: Plaza Bolivar, Washington, D.C.; monument to General Calixto Garcia, Havana, Cuba; Pershing Memorial, Washington, D.C.; Stone Mountain Memorial, Atlanta, Georgia; National War Memorial, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | |
1963 | Site plan for U.S. National Arboretum, Washington, D.C. | |
1964-1968 | Health problems prevented further work | |
Mar. 26, 1968 | Died in Austinburg, Ohio |
Includes correspondence, reports, clippings, photographs, plans, and drawings related
to projects on which Peets worked; material on the L'Enfant plan for Washington, D.C.,
of which Peets was a major proponent and guardian; material related to articles and
books by or about Peets, including photographs and negatives from the book Civic Art; and personal correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and family papers.
Series I. Projects, Appointments, and Consultations | Box 1, Folder 1 - Box 1, Folder 53 |
Series II. Writings | Box 1, Folder 54 - Box 3, Folder 14 |
Series III. General Papers | Box 3, Folder 15 - Box 5, Folder 13 |
Series IV. Oversize Plans, Prints, and Drawings | Mapcase, Folders 1-19 |
Books - cataloged individually in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
- The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art, by W. Hegemann and E. Peets, 1922, Rare NA9030 H46 ++
- The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art, by W. Hegemann and E. Peets, republication by Princeton Architectural Press with new introductory essays. 1988, Rare NA9030 H46 1988 ++
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Elbert Peets Papers, #2772. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Peets, Elbert, 1886-1968.
Peets, Edward Orville.
Peets, Mary Euretta Houghton.
Hegemann, Werner.
Kohler, Walter S.
Tugwell, Rexford G. (Rexford Guy), 1891-1979.
Manilow, Nathaniel.
Klutznick, Philip M.
L\'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754-1825.
Pray, Hubbard, and White
United States. Farm Resettlement Administration
United States. Housing Authority. Site Planning Section
United States. Federal Public Housing Authority
Loebl, Schlosman & Bennett
American Community Builders, Inc
United States. Commission of Fine Arts
United States. National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Places:
Washington (D.C.) -- City planning.
Park Forest (Ill.) -- City planning.
Greendale (Pa.) -- City planning.
Wyomissing Park (Reading, Pa.) -- City planning.
Washington Highlands (Milwaukee, Wis.) -- City planning.
Kohler (Wis.) -- City planning.
Boston (Mass.) -- City planning.
Cleveland (Ohio) -- City planning.
Subjects:
City planners.
Landscape architects.
City planning.
Landscape architecture.
Form and Genre Terms:
Drawings.
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Projects, Appointments, and Consultations
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
U.S. Army, Camp Planning Section certificate, list
|
1918 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Washington Highlands (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) site plan pamphlets from Richter, Dick,
and Reuterman
|
1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University Fellowship correspondence,
invoices
|
1917-1921 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Wyomissing Park, Pennsylvania - site plan correspondence, pamphlets, photos, drawings,
map.
|
1921-1923 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, correspondence, lists
|
1925-1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 6-7 |
The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, unpublished manuscript
|
n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, unpublished manuscript, lists
|
1918-1919, 1961, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, unpublished manuscript "Washington's Golden Age"
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n.d., Sept. 1934 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, memoranda including American Planning and Civic Association
|
1934, 1956, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, letters of Pierre Charles L'Enfant
|
1791 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, pamphlets
|
1924-1944 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, articles, petition, report
|
1924-1962 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, clippings
|
1952-1954, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, photos
|
1922-1962, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, drawings, sketches, plans
|
1932-1951, nd.d |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, drawings, plans
|
1929-1956, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Paul V. Harper Estate landscaping, correspondence
|
1928-1956 |
Box 1 | Folder 19-20 |
Paul V. Harper Estate landscaping, correspondence
|
n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Paul V. Harper Estate landscaping, photos
|
1928-1940 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Paul V. Harper Estate landscaping, drawings, sketches
|
1928-1940 |
Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Tent-house Construction, correspondence, plans, elevations, reports.
|
1933-1935 |
Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan, Greenbelt towns correspondence, chart
|
1935-1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan report
|
1938 |
Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan reports, proposed zoning ordinance
|
1944-1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan manuscript articles by Peets
|
1936, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan manuscript articles
|
1936, 1959, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan articles
|
1936-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan pamphlets
|
1936-1959, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan clippings
|
1935-1967 |
Box 1 | Folder 32-34 |
Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan photos
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n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan maps, drawings, plans
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1936-1960 |
Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Catalina Island, California - planned development correspondence, report
|
1938 |
Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Site Planning Section, U.S. Housing Authority and Federal Public Housing Authority
correspondence
|
1935-1944 |
Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Site Planning Section, U.S. Housing Authority and Federal Public Housing Authority
reports
|
1940, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Site Planning Section, U.S. Housing Authority and Federal Public Housing Authority
notes, memos, clipping, plan
|
n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 40 |
San Juan, Puerto Rico - housing and planning correspondence, poem, pamphlet, clippings
|
1942-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 41-42 |
San Juan, Puerto Rico - housing and planning photos
|
1951 |
Box 1 | Folder 43 |
San Juan, Puerto Rico - housing and planning photos
|
n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 44 |
San Juan, Puerto Rico- La Perla Park drawings
|
1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 45 |
Park Forest, Illinois - town plan correspondence, speech, clipping, plans
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1946-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 46 |
Commission of Fine Arts, Washington D.C. - Civic Art correspondence
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1950-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 47 |
Commission of Fine Arts, Washington D.C. - Civic Art notes
|
1957 |
Box 1 | Folder 48 |
Commission of Fine Arts speeches, transcripts
|
1944-1952 |
Box 1 | Folder 49 |
Commission of Fine Arts pamphlets
|
1934-1955 |
Box 1 | Folder 50 |
Commission of Fine Arts clippings
|
1950-1962 |
Box 1 | Folder 51 |
Harvard Lecturing Appointment correspondence, directives
|
1952-1953 |
Box 1 | Folder 52 |
Consultations - correspondence, invoices
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1952-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 53 |
Calixto Garcia Monument, Cuba - photos
|
1958 |
Series II. Writings
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Published Writings
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Box 1 | Folder 54 |
The Central High School Monthly (Elbert Peets, editor)
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1904 |
Box 1 | Folder 55 |
"Street Trees in the Built-Up Districts of Large Cities" Landscape Architecture
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1915 |
Box 1 | Folder 56 |
Civic Art, co-authored with Werner Hegemann - contract, correspondence, brochures, cross reference
|
1921-1958 |
Box 1 | Folder 57-60 |
Civic Art - prints
|
1922 |
Box 2 | Folder 1-6 |
Civic Art - prints
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1922 |
Box 2 | Folder 7-39 |
Civic Art - negatives
|
1922 |
Box 2 | Folder 40 |
"Central Park" The American Mercury - correspondence, drafts, article
|
1924-1925 |
Box 2 | Folder 41 |
"Interior of the Lincoln Memorial" The American Mercury - correspondence, drafts, article
|
1925 |
Box 2 | Folder 42 |
"Mussolini, Haussmann, and Company" The New Republic - correspondence, articles
|
1926 |
Box 2 | Folder 43 |
"The New Washington" The New Republic, The American Mercury - correspondence
|
1926 |
Box 2 | Folder 44 |
"The Landscape Priesthood" The American Mercury - correspondence, drafts, article
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1926-1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 45 |
"Restoration of Rome"
|
1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 46 |
"Cleveland Reservoir" The Nation - correspondence, article, drawing
|
1926-1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 47 |
"The Reign of the Masonry Dome" The Nation - correspondence, article
|
1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 48 |
"The Genealogy of L'Enfant's Washington" - American Institute of Architectures - correspondence,
draft, article
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1926-1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 49 |
"Art is Craftsmanship" The Vista
|
1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 50 |
"Restraint and Order in Planning Outdoor Rooms" Your Garden
|
1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 51 |
"Garden Epigrams and Insults by Elbert Peets" Your Garden
|
1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 52 |
"The Garden as a Reservoir of Time" Your Garden
|
1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 53 |
"On the High Hedge as a Hobby for Men" Your Garden
|
1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 54 |
"Famous Town Planners: I - Haussmann" - correspondence, article
|
1925-1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 55 |
"Famous Town Planners: II - Camillo Sitte"
|
1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 56 |
"Famous Town Planners: III - L'Enfant"
|
1927-1929 |
Box 2 | Folder 57 |
"Famous Town Planners: IV - Plans for Re-building London in 1666"
|
1930 |
Box 2 | Folder 58 |
Baltimore Sunday Sun, Washington Plan Series - correspondence, drafts, articles
|
1928-1935 |
Box 2 | Folder 59 |
"Current Town Planning in Washington" - correspondence, draft, article
|
1931 |
Box 2 | Folder 60 |
"An Accurate Re-Drawing of the Central Part of L'Enfant's Autograph Plan" Architectural Record
|
1928-1932 |
Box 2 | Folder 61 |
"L'Enfant's Washington" The Town Planning Review
|
1933 |
Box 2 | Folder 62 |
"City Planner Believes Pope did Job he was Employed to Do" The Washington Daily News - draft, article re the Jefferson Memorial
|
1937 |
Box 2 | Folder 63 |
"Washington, Williamsburg, the Century of Progress, and Greendale" - Architectural
Book Publishing Co. - correspondence, book
|
1937 |
Box 2 | Folder 64 |
"The Original Plan of Washington" House and Garden - magazine, correspondence
|
1940 |
Box 2 | Folder 65 |
"Site Planning for Livability" The American City
|
1941 |
Box 2 | Folder 66 |
"Post-War Use of Temporary Housing Sites" The American City
|
Nov. 1943 |
Box 2 | Folder 67 |
"Four Guides for Building a New Home" The Journal of Housing
|
1946 |
Box 2 | Folder 68 |
"The Neighborhood Concept" The Journal of Housing
|
1948 |
Box 2 | Folder 69 |
"Studies in Planning Texture" Architectural Record
|
1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 70 |
Review of Deane G. Carter and Keith H. Hinchcliff, Family Housing in The Journal of Housing
|
1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 71 |
"The Genealogy of the Plan of Washington" Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
|
1951 |
Box 2 | Folder 72 |
Review of Frederick Gibberd, Town Design in Landscape Architecture
|
1953 |
Box 2 | Folder 73 |
"The Golden Horses" - on Washington, D.C. Civic Art
|
1954 |
Box 2 | Folder 74 |
"East Front Pilgrims" The Washington Post - clippings
|
1958 |
Box 2 | Folder 75 |
"The 'President's Square'" The Washington Post
|
1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 76 |
"Le Plan du Major L'Enfant" - magazine, correspondence
|
1962-1965 |
Box 2 | Folder 77 |
On the Art of Designing Cities, book of Peets' essays edited by Paul D. Spreiregen - correspondence
|
1965-1966 |
Box 2 | Folder 78 |
On the Art of Designing Cities - correspondence
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Mar. - May 1967 |
Box 2 | Folder 79 |
On the Art of Designing Cities - correspondence
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June 1967-1969 |
Box 2 | Folder 80 |
On the Art of Designing Cities - notes, lists
|
1968 |
Box 2 | Folder 81-85 |
On the Art of Designing Cities - draft
|
1968 |
Box 2 | Folder 86-88 |
On the Art of Designing Cities - layouts
|
1968 |
Box 2 | Folder 89 |
On the Art of Designing Cities - photos
|
1968 |
Unpublished Writings
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Box 2 | Folder 90 |
"Some Design Aspects of City Street Trees" - Harvard School of Landscape Architecture
thesis
|
1915 |
Box 2 | Folder 91 |
"The Four Gods - A Socio-psychological Burlesque in One Act" - script
|
1919 |
Box 2 | Folder 92 |
"Description of the 'Form-built' process of laying bricks"
|
1921 |
Box 2 | Folder 93 |
"The Unknown Art" - correspondence, drafts
|
1923-1934 |
Box 2 | Folder 94 |
"Edgar Allen Poe, Landscape Gardener" - correspondence, manuscript articles, notes
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1929 |
Box 2 | Folder 95 |
Notes and correspondence for a proposed book on estate design
|
1930 |
Box 2 | Folder 96 |
"Differentiating Features of Cities as Seen from the Air" - outline
|
1944 |
Box 2 | Folder 97 |
"'Lawns and Planting' Specifications" - report for Balitmore Housing Authority
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1952 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
"The Orientation of Row Houses" - article
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
"Mithradates the King" - short story, annotated draft
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
"Mr. Business, Meet Miss Summer Cottage" - typescript draft article
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n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
"Ohio in Song and Story" - manuscript article
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n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
"The Beauty of Nela Park" - typescript draft article
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n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
"Gridiron Cities and Towns" - typescript articles
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
"The Location of Monumental Buildings" - typescript articles
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
"London" - manuscript and typescript article
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
"Away from Architecture"
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n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
"Wolfflin - Kuntsgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe" - typecript draft article
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 11 |
An article on Street Trees
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
"Preliminary Indoctrination for Officials Enforcing the Old Georgetown Law" - typescript
draft article
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 13 |
A series of articles on architecture and city planning
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 14 |
Fragments of manuscript writings
|
n.d. |
Series III. General Papers
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Correspondence
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Box 3 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence
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1912-1921 |
Box 3 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence with Jacob L. Crane and others
|
1924-1926 |
Box 3 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence
|
1927-1929 |
Box 3 | Folder 18 |
Correspondence with Lewis Mumford, Jacob L. Crane
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1930-1932 |
Box 3 | Folder 19 |
Correspondence
|
1933-1938 |
Box 3 | Folder 20 |
Correspondence
|
1939-1941 |
Box 3 | Folder 21 |
Correspondence
|
1942-1944 |
Box 3 | Folder 22 |
Correspondence
|
1945-1947 |
Box 3 | Folder 23 |
Correspondence
|
1948-1953 |
Box 3 | Folder 24 |
Correspondence
|
1954-1956 |
Box 3 | Folder 25 |
Correspondence with Anne Clapp, others
|
1957 |
Box 3 | Folder 26 |
General correspondence
|
1958 |
Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Correspondence with American Institute of Planners
|
1959 |
Box 3 | Folder 28 |
Correspondence
|
1960 |
Box 3 | Folder 29 |
Correspondence
|
1961 |
Box 3 | Folder 30 |
Correspondence
|
1962 |
Box 3 | Folder 31 |
Correspondence
|
1963 |
Box 3 | Folder 32 |
Correspondence
|
1964 |
Box 3 | Folder 33 |
Correspondence
|
1965 |
Box 3 | Folder 34 |
Correspondence
|
1966-1968 |
Box 3 | Folder 35 |
Undated correspondence, A-C
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Box 3 | Folder 36 |
Undated correspondence, D-G
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Box 3 | Folder 37 |
Undated correspondence, H-L
|
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Box 3 | Folder 38 |
Undated correspondence, M-R
|
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Box 3 | Folder 39 |
Undated correspondence, S-V
|
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Box 3 | Folder 40 |
Undated correspondence, W-Z
|
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Box 3 | Folder 41 |
Undated correspondence, no identification
|
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Box 3 | Folder 42 |
Non-Peets correspondence
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1940-1968, n.d. |
Notes
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Box 3 | Folder 43 |
Notes, notebooks
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1925-1935 |
Box 3 | Folder 44 |
Notes, notebooks
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1943-1950 |
Box 3 | Folder 45 |
Notes, notebook
|
1961-1963 |
Box 3 | Folder 46 |
Notes on city planning, housing
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 47 |
Notes on art, architecture, landscaping
|
n.d. |
Manuscripts
|
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Box 3 | Folder 48 |
Miscellaneous Manuscripts on Art, Architecture, and Planning - articles, speeches,
excerpts
|
1922-1964 |
Pamphlets
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Box 3 | Folder 49 |
Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Art, Architecture, and Planning
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1902-1932 |
Box 3 | Folder 50 |
Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Art, Architecture, and Planning
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1943-1960 |
Box 3 | Folder 51 |
Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Art, Architecture, and Planning
|
1962-1964 |
Box 3 | Folder 52 |
Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Art, Architecture, and Planning
|
n.d. |
Clippings
|
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Box 3 | Folder 53 |
Miscellaneous Clippings on Art, Architecture, and Planning
|
1935-1963 |
Brochures
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Box 3 | Folder 54 |
Brochures
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1920-1956 |
Photos
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Box 3 | Folder 55 |
Pennsylvania - civic architecture
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n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 56 |
Mt. Vernon, Virginia
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n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 57 |
Masachusetts
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n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 58 |
Weitz estate
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 59 |
Europe
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 60 |
People
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 61 |
People
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1932-1963, n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 62 |
Home and family
|
1930-1940, n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 63 |
Personal photographs, negatives
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1936, n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 64 |
Miscellaneous photos
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n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 65 |
Miscellaneous photos, negative (some foreign)
|
n.d. |
Box 3 | Folder 66 |
"Youngstown and miscellaneous street scenes and travel views" - negatives and photos
of Youngstown, Ohio
|
n.d. |
Graphics
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Estates - plans and perspectives
|
n.d. |
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Perspective drawings
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1916-1946 |
Box 4 | Folder 3-4 |
Perspective drawings
|
n.d. |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
General Plan, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Haldy, original.
|
Oct. 30, 1921 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Summer Home and Garden, Miss Shewbrooks, Bolton Meadow, Mass., original.
|
Mar. 7, 1927 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Plan for ...the Moraine Syndicate Property, West of Lake Forest
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May 12, 1930 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Study for Walk between Cedar and Central, 25th to 55th, City Plan Commission, Cleveland
|
Aug. 14, 1933 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Study for Walk between Scovill and Woodland, 30th to 55th, City Plan Commission, Cleveland
|
Aug. 15, 1933 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Study for a Recreation Center on Whisky Island, City Plan Commission, Cleveland
|
Sept. 22, 1933 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Plan for ...Park ...Kingsbury Creek, City Plan Commission, Cleveland
|
Oct. 4, 1933. |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Study for Stadium Grounds, City Plan Commission, Cleveland
|
Oct. 25, 1933 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Diagrammatic Sketch ...Stadium Grounds, City Plan Commission, Cleveland
|
Nov. 1, 1933 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Sketch Plan for expansion of Town Center
|
Feb. 1938 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Study for Emergency Housing
|
Aug. 20, 1945 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Study for ...development of ...Avalon Park, Chicago, Prudential Insurance Company
of America, Newark, N.J., Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett, Architects
|
Sept. 10, 1947 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
M Street, original
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Nov. 2, 1963 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Student work at Harvard, sketches made at the British Museum
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1921, n.d. |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Plans and elevations, some done in Italy and France, some for The American Vitruvius
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n.d. |
Box 4 | Folder 7-8 |
Sketches
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n.d. |
Box 5 | Folder 1-3 |
Sketchbooks
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n.d. |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Palmanova - linoleum prints
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1930 |
Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Peterborough Cathedral - linoleum prints
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n.d. |
Box 5 | Folder 6 |
St. Paul's Cathedral - linoleum prints
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1931 |
Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Martini - city plan - linoleum prints
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1934 |
Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Majapahit, Java - city plan - linoleum prints
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1932 |
Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Linoleum prints - blocks
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1930-1931 |
Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Miscellaneous non-Peets graphic items - drawings, prints, plans, postcards
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n.d. |
Family and Biographical Material
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Box 5 | Folder 11 |
Family and Biographical Material
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Box 5 | Folder 12 |
Family and Biographical Material - Edward O. Peets, Rumah Peets, Jan Van Bergen Collier
- chart, correspondence, notebook, pamphlets, certificate, clippings
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1883-1952 |
Miscellaneous Papers
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Box 5 | Folder 13 |
Miscellaneous Papers - poems, invoices, certificates, list
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1920-1964, n.d. |
Box 6 |
Printed material on Kohler Village and planned communities.
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Scope and Contents
Two offprints of articles co-authored by Arnold R. Alanen re some of Peets' work in
Wisconsin: "Looking Backward at a New Deal Town: Greendale, Wisconsin, 1935-1980,
by Joseph A. Eden and Arnold R. Alanen, and "Kohler, Wisconsin: Planning and Paternalism
in a Model Industrial Village," by Arnold A. Alanen and Thomas J. Peltin. This is Greendale (paperback edition) by E. Peets. Note: Many of the photocopies in this box were made
from our collection per K. Jacklin, June 1983.
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Box 6 |
Bibliography of Peets' writings on 4" x 6" notecards.
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Folio of drawings and sketches
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Series IV. Plans, Prints, and Original Drawings in Map Drawer
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School Projects
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Mapcase Folder 1 |
School Projects
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1914-1917. n.d. | |
Town and City Plans
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Mapcase Folder 2 |
Washington Highlands
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1918 | |
Mapcase Folder 3 |
Wyomissing Park
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1922, 1924 | |
Mapcase Folder 4 |
Washington, D.C., City Plan
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1901-1960, n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 5 |
Greendale
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1936-1949 | |
Mapcase Folder 6 |
Greendale
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1950-1960 | |
Mapcase Folder 7 |
Park Forest
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1946-1950 | |
Private Residences and Estates
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Mapcase Folder 8 |
E. Richard Meinig, Wyomissing, Pa. - birdseye view from the east of the house and
gardens
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June 20, 1917 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
E. Richard Meinig, Wyomissing, Pa. - grading plan for the garden
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Aug. 25, 1917 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
F. W. Norris - "Larchwood" - details of garden
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Jan. 12, 1915 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
Keene Addington, Lake Forest, Ill. - preliminary plan
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Sept. 15, 1915 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
Herman Vihlein [sic.], Pabst, White Fish Bay, Milwaukee, Wisc. - general plan for
development of the estate
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Sept. 16, 1917 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
Herman Vihlein [sic.], Pabst, White Fish Bay, Milwaukee, Wisc. - garden theater
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n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
Gustav A. Reuss, North Lake, Wisc. - plan for the development of the grounds of the
gardener's cottage
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Aug. 29, 1919 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
L. R. Smith, shore of Lake Michigan - sketch for the development, Scheme B
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Dec. 21, 1919 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
L. R. Smith, shore of Lake Michigan - sketch for the development, Scheme F
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Dec. 22, 1919 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
Myron T. MacLaren, Milwaukee, Wisc. - studies for the arrangement of steps to the
east terrace
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Oct. 1919 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
Myron T. MacLaren, Milwaukee, Wisc. - general plan for the estate, second copy annotated
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Dec. 8, 1919 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
Myron T. MacLaren, Milwaukee, Wisc. - plan for tennis court
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Apr. 6, 1921 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
Myron T. MacLaren, Milwaukee, Wisc. - sketches for development, Scheme A, Birdseye
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n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
Myron T. MacLaren, Milwaukee, Wisc. - construction plan for mall and steps at east
side of garden
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June 1921 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
Myron T. MacLaren, Milwaukee, Wisc. - general plan for the estate
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July 30, 1921 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
Fred Pabst, Oconomowoe - revised plan for garden
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June 13, 1921 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
H. Z. Logan, South Milwaukee, Wisc. - garden house
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Nov. 2, 1921 | |
Mapcase Folder 8 |
George W. Rossetter, West of Lake Forest, Ill. - study for general plan
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June 5, 1928 | |
Mapcase Folder 9 |
Private Residences and Estates
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1928 | |
Scope and Contents
A series of numbered drawings - the first five titled "Estate No. One" and "Estate
No. Two" - without titles, but illustrating various landscape designs based on classical
or baroque style. Some are annotated indicating that they may have been intended for
publication.
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Mapcase Folder 10 |
Graham, St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, Ill. - first study
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Jan. 25, 1930 | |
Mapcase Folder 10 |
Richter, Dick and Reuthmann - sales office at Washington Highlands [verso of above]
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Nov. 1917 | |
Mapcase Folder 10 |
Graham, "Five Pines," St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, Ill. - plan for vicinity of house
(2 copies)
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Mar. 1, 1930 | |
Mapcase Folder 10 |
Graham, "Five Pines," St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, Ill. - construction details (2
copies)
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Mar. 2, 1930 | |
Mapcase Folder 10 |
Alfred MacArthur, 29 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. - studies for development
of lots in 40acre tract on St. Mary's Road, Lake Forest, Ill.
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May 1, 1928 | |
Mapcase Folder 10 |
A. M. Johnson and Alfred MacArthur, Lake Forest, Ill. - study for a community development
on property west of Lake Forest
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June 1, 1928 | |
Mapcase Folder 10 |
Alfred MacArthur, Lake Forest, Ill. - plan for vicinity of house (2 copies)
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Mar. 22, 1929 | |
Mapcase Folder 10 |
Alfred MacArthur, Lake Forest, Ill. - plan for vicinity of house
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Mar. 29, 1929 | |
Mapcase Folder 10 |
Alfred MacArthur, Lake Forest, Ill. - working plans for south arbor, north arbor,
milk house trellis and end of wall (2 copies)
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Mar. 31, 1929 | |
Mapcase Folder 10 |
Mrs. Paul V. Harper, St. Mary's and Old School Roads, Lake Forest, Libertyville, Ill.
- cabinet work in dressing room, etc. (2 copies)
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May 1929 | |
Mapcase Folder 11 |
Miss Weitz, Zoar, Ohio - plan for retaining wall and pavement
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Oct. 6, 1930 | |
Mapcase Folder 11 |
Miss Weitz, Zoar, Ohio - new east wing for ...log house (second copy with annotations)
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Oct. 6, 1930 | |
Mapcase Folder 11 |
Voevodsky, St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, Ill. - topographic map
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Aug. 24, 1934 | |
Mapcase Folder 11 |
Voevodsky, St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, Ill. - general plan (2 copies)
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Aug. 31, 1934 | |
Mapcase Folder 11 |
Ben E. Cohen's Farm, Fairfield, Lake County, Ill. - plan for vicinity of the house
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Mar. 30, 1935 | |
Mapcase Folder 11 |
Stevenson, St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, Lake County, Ill. - topographic map
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Mar. 1935 | |
Mapcase Folder 11 |
Abbot, Fremont, Neb. - sketch (not Peets)
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n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 11 |
W. O. Lindley, Lake Forest, Ill. - sketch plan of grounds
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n.d. | |
Memorials, Parks, and Recreation Areas
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Mapcase Folder 12 |
Memorials, Parks, and Recreation Areas
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1932-1957 | |
Mapcase Folder 13 |
Memorials, Parks, and Recreation Areas
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1959-1960 | |
Mapcase Folder 14 |
Memorials, Parks, and Recreation Areas
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1961-1963 | |
Other Projects
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Mapcase Folder 15 |
Other Projects
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1913-1930 | |
Mapcase Folder 16 |
Other Projects
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1931-1933 | |
Mapcase Folder 17 |
Other Projects
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1933-1956 | |
Mapcase Folder 18 |
Other Projects
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1956-1960 | |
Mapcase Folder 19 |
Other Projects
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n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 20 |
Other Projects
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n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 21 |
Other Projects
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n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 22 |
Other Projects
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n.d. | |
Mapcase Folder 23 |
Other Projects
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n.d. |