Nelson Peter Lewis papers, 1896-1925.
Collection Number: 2712
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Nelson Peter Lewis papers, 1896-1925.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2712
Abstract:
Speeches and papers given by Nelson P. Lewis; scrapbooks of news clippings and programs,
1896-1923; scrapbook of reviews of The Planning of the Modern City, 1919-1923; professional
engineering license, 1921; three illuminated memorial booklets, 1924; copies of The
Planning of the Modern City, 1916; Urbanizacion, the Spanish edition, 1917-1918; and
other books by Nelson P. Lewis.
Creator:
Lewis, Nelson Peter, 1856-1924.
Lewis, Nelson Peter, 1856-1924. (Title of work: Planning of the modern city..)
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
City planner Nelson P. Lewis served as chief engineer of Brooklyn, New York from 1902-1920.
He wrote The Planning of the Modern City, 1916. In May 1921 he became Director of the Physical Survey of the Regional Plan
of New York and Its Environs.
Speeches and papers given by Nelson P. Lewis; scrapbooks of news clippings and programs,
1896-1923; scrapbook of reviews of The Planning of the Modern City, 1919-1923; professional engineering license, 1921; three illuminated memorial booklets,
1924; copies of The Planning of the Modern City, 1916; Urbanizacion, the Spanish edition, 1917-1918; and other books by Nelson P. Lewis.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Nelson Peter Lewis Papers, #2712. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs
Places:
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
City planners.
City planning -- New York (N.Y.) -- Brooklyn.
City planning.
Form and Genre Terms:
Scrapbooks.
Reviews.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Unbound papers
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Notes, speeches, paper
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1899-1913 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Letters
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1913 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Zoning Committee of the City of New York, minutes
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1937-1942 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Biographical material, condolence letters, resolutions
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1924, undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Articles
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1904, 1920, 1922, undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Speeches
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1903-1904 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Speeches
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1905 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Speeches
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1907-1908 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Speeches
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1909 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Speeches
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1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Speeches
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1911-1912 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Speeches
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1913-1914 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Speeches
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1915 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Speeches
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1916-1917 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Speeches
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1919-1920 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Speeches
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1921-1922 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Speeches
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undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Portrait of Lewis
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Will (copy), Arthur Nelson
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1881 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Miscellaneous
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Series II. Bound volumes
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| Box 2 |
Scrapbook
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1907-1924, 1896-1909 | |
| Box 2 |
The Planning of the Modern City
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1916 | |
| Box 2 |
Scrapbook of reviews
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1916-1923 | |
| Box 2 |
Three illuminated memorial resolutions
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1924 | |
| Box 2 |
Urbanizacion, Jose M. de Lasarte (Spanish translation of The Planning of the Modern City)
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1917-1918 | |