Andrew Dickson White architectural photograph collection, [ca. 1865-1950]
Collection Number: 15-5-3090

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Andrew Dickson White architectural photograph collection, [ca. 1865-1950]
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
15-5-3090
Abstract:
Includes approximately 13,000 photographs of buildings, sculpture and decorative arts in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Collection consists of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs: 9,000 individual, mounted images and about 150 albums containing approximately 4,000 images. Other sub-collections include nineteenth-century American domestic architecture, 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition, plans and drawings by fellows of the American Academy in Rome (200 items, ca. 1930-1940); Clifton Beckwith Brown memorial albums (118 albums containing about 2,600 images); photographs of drawings of the U. S. Capitol Building and U. S. Treasury Buildings by Alfred B. Mullett, supervising architect of the U.S. Treasury; three albums of views of the Middle East by Félix Bonfils; photogravures of the Louvre Museum by Edouard-Denis Baldus; and Metropolitan Museum period rooms. Photographic processes include albumen prints, carbon prints, cyanotypes, photogravures, and gelatin silver prints.
Creator:
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
Quanitities:
13,000 items.
Language:
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Educator, diplomat, president of Cornell University.
His tenure as University president (1866-85) was interrupted by an official visit to Santo Domingo and a term as U.S. Minister to Berlin. He later served as Minister to Russia and then Ambassador to Germany. After the death of his first wife, Mary Amanda Outwater, White married Helen Magill. He died in 1918.
Andrew D. White taught at the University of Michigan, then served in the New York State Senate (1864-67). He next became Cornell's first president.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes approximately 13,000 photographs of buildings, sculpture and decorative arts in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Collection consists of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century photographs: 9,000 individual, mounted images and about 150 albums containing approximately 4,000 images. Other sub-collections include nineteenth-century American domestic architecture, 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition, plans and drawings by fellows of the American Academy in Rome (200 items, ca. 1930-1940); Clifton Beckwith Brown memorial albums (118 albums containing about 2,600 images); photographs of drawings of the U. S. Capitol Building and U. S. Treasury Buildings by Alfred B. Mullett, supervising architect of the U.S. Treasury; three albums of views of the Middle East by Félix Bonfils; photogravures of the Louvre Museum by Edouard-Denis Baldus; and Metropolitan Museum period rooms. Photographic processes include albumen prints, carbon prints, cyanotypes, photogravures, and gelatin silver prints.
NOTES

See also: Andrew D. White Architectural Photographs digital collection, which consists of digitized images from this collection.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cite As:

Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photograph Collection, #15-5-3090. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Bonfils, Félix, 1831-1885.
Baldus, Edouard, 1813-1889.
Brown, Clifton Beckwith.
American Academy in Rome
Musée du Louvre
World\'s Columbian Exposition (Location of meeting: Chicago, Ill.). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1893 :.)
Subjects:
Religious facilities -- Pictorial works.
Public buildings -- Pictorial works.
Palaces -- Pictorial works.
Museums -- Pictorial works.
Monuments -- Pictorial works.
Office buildings -- Pictorial works.
Gardens -- Pictorial works.
Art museums -- Pictorial works.
Fortification.
Decorative arts -- Pictorial works.
Commercial buildings -- Pictorial works.
Street photography.
Architecture -- Details -- Pictorial works.
Architecture -- Pictorial works.
Archaeology -- Pictorial works.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Series I. Europe
Box 67
Algeria
Box 67
Armenia
Box 55
Austria
Box 56
Austria
Box 57
Belgium
Box 201
Belgium
Box 305
Belgium
Scope and Contents
Audenard, Brussels
Box 306
Belgium
Scope and Contents
Louven
Box 29
Denmark
Scope and Contents
Kronborg Castle, Helsingor
Box 6
England
Box 196
England
Box 197
England
Box 198
England
Box 199
England
Box 200
England
Box 201
England
Box 13
England
Scope and Contents
Old Sarum, Salisbury, Beverly Minster Percy Shrine, Ely Priory porch, York, Gloucester
Box 30
England
Scope and Contents
Wells Cathedral, Wimbledon, Worcester Cathedral, York Minster
Box 31
England
Scope and Contents
Westminster Abbey, Kenilworth Castle, Worcester Cathedral, Chichester Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, Bristol, Wells
Box 32
England
Scope and Contents
Oxford Colleges, Salisbury Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, Gloucester Cathedral, Reading, Montacute House, Tonbridge, Torquay
Box 33
England
Scope and Contents
London, Warwick Castle, Exeter Cathedral, Norwich, Mentmore Towers, Oxford Colleges, Royal Architectural Museum
Box 34
England
Scope and Contents
Durham Cathedral, Lincoln, Beverly Minster, Exeter, Hawarden Castle, Kenilworth Castle, Royal Leamington Spa, Royal Architectural Museum, Hyde Park, Oxford Colleges, Salisbury, Southwell Minster
Box 35
England
Scope and Contents
Chichester, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester, Lichfield, Lincoln, St. Alban's Cathedral, Wells Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Worcester Cathedral, York Minster, Kenilworth Castle, Eaton Hall, Kent, London
Box 36
England
Scope and Contents
Bristol, Glastonbury Abbey, York Minster, British domestic architecture, Ascott House, Cambridge, Eaton, London, Oxford, Shropshire
Box 37
England
Scope and Contents
Carlisle Cathedral, Chester Cathedral, Chichester, Compton Castle, Durham, Exeter, Glastonbury Abbey, Haddon Hall, Hatfield House, London
Box 38
England
Scope and Contents
Bristol, Cambridge colleges
Box 39
England
Scope and Contents
Cambridge
Box 40
England
Scope and Contents
Cambridge colleges, Exeter, Gloucester, Haddon Hall, Hereford Cathedral, Ledbury, Lichfield, Lincoln, London, Reading, Salisbury, Winchester Cathedral, York Minster
Box 41
England
Scope and Contents
Winchester, London, Wells, Windsor
Box 7
England, Scotland
Box 14
England, Scotland and Wales: churches
Box 309
England
Scope and Contents
London, Cambridge, Salisbury
Box 279
France
Scope and Contents
Photographs by Baldus
Box 280
France
Scope and Contents
Photographs by Baldus
Box 281
France
Box 8
Italy
Box 9
Decorative Arts: Austria
Box 10
France
Box 201
France
Box 202
France
Box 203
France
Box 44
France
Scope and Contents
Agen, Aigues Mortes, Albi, Amiens, Anet, Angers, Angouleme, Anndely, Arles, Alivers, Avallon, Beauvais, Blois
Box 45
France
Scope and Contents
Bouilly, Bourges, Bretteville, Caen, Cannes, Ceret, Chalons-sur-Marne, Chantilly
Box 46
France
Scope and Contents
Chemaze, Chiny, Compiegne, Elne, Epreville, Evre et Loire, Fontainebleau, Harmont de Boixe, Josselin, Laon, Lemans, Le Puy, Lisieux, Loches, Mentone, Mont St. Michel
Box 47
France
Scope and Contents
Mont St. Michel, Montpellier, Mortree, Moissac, Nantes, Nice, Nimes, Noyes
Box 48
France
Scope and Contents
Paris
Box 49
France
Scope and Contents
Paris
Box 50
France
Scope and Contents
Paris
Box 51
France
Scope and Contents
St. Benoit sur Loire, St. Denis, St. Michel-de-Luxe, Strassbourg, Toulouse, Tours, Troyes, Varengeville, Versailles, Vezelay, Unidentified
Box 52
France
Scope and Contents
Exposition
Box 168
France
Scope and Contents
Sculpture
Box 171
France
Scope and Contents
Decorative arts
Box 305
France
Scope and Contents
Abbeville, Amiens, Blois, Bourges, Caen
Box 306
France
Scope and Contents
Caen, Chartres, Chenonceaux, Moissac, Orleans, Paris, Poitiers, Rouen, Versailles
Box 307
France
Scope and Contents
Strasbourg
Box 15
Germany, France, Belgium
Box 16
Germany, England, Jerusalem Basilica
Box 133
Germany
Scope and Contents
Aachen, Altdorf, Andernach, Augsburg, Bamberg
Box 134
Germany
Scope and Contents
Bamberg
Box 135
Germany
Scope and Contents
Bamberg, Berlin
Box 136
Germany
Scope and Contents
Bielefeld, Bonn, Bremen, Coburg, Dresden
Box 137
Germany
Scope and Contents
Erfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main, Frizlar, Fulda, Gelnhausen, Gernrode, Goslar
Box 138
Germany
Scope and Contents
Halberstadt, Halle, Hamburg, Heiligenberg, Hildesheim
Box 139
Germany
Scope and Contents
Hildesheim
Box 140
Germany
Scope and Contents
Hildesheim
Box 141
Germany
Scope and Contents
Jerichow, Jueslingburg, Cologne
Box 142
Germany
Scope and Contents
Konigslutter, Abtei Maria, Laach
Box 143
Germany
Scope and Contents
Laach, Lacken, Lehnin, Limburg, Lubeck
Box 144
Germany
Scope and Contents
Lubeck, Magdeburg, Mainz, Marburg
Box 145
Germany
Scope and Contents
Marburg
Box 146
Germany
Scope and Contents
Marburg
Box 147
Germany
Scope and Contents
Marburg
Box 148
Germany
Scope and Contents
Marburg
Box 149
Germany
Scope and Contents
Marburg
Box 150
Germany
Scope and Contents
Marburg
Box 150
Germany
Scope and Contents
Maulbronn Abbey
Box 151
Germany
Scope and Contents
Maulbronn Abbey, Munich
Box 152
Germany
Scope and Contents
Munster, Naumburg, Nuremburg
Box 153
Germany
Scope and Contents
Nuremburg
Box 154
Germany
Scope and Contents
Nuremburg
Box 155
Germany
Scope and Contents
Nuremburg
Box 156
Germany
Scope and Contents
Nuremburg
Box 156
Germany
Scope and Contents
Paderborn, Potsdam
Box 157
Germany
Scope and Contents
Quedlinburg, Regensburg
Box 158
Germany
Scope and Contents
Regensburg
Box 159
Germany
Scope and Contents
Regensburg
Box 160
Germany
Scope and Contents
Regensburg
Box 160
Germany
Scope and Contents
Salzwedel, Schwerin, Stuttgart, Trier, Uberlinger, Ulm, Wartburg
Box 161
Germany
Scope and Contents
Wernigerude, Wittenburg, Worms
Box 162
Germany
Scope and Contents
Worms
Box 163
Germany
Scope and Contents
Wurzburg
Box 163
Germany
Scope and Contents
Unidentified locations
Box 164
Germany
Scope and Contents
Unidentified locations
Box 165
Germany
Scope and Contents
Sculpture in architectural settings
Box 173
Germany
Scope and Contents
Decorative arts
Box 307
Germany
Scope and Contents
Cologne
Box 169
Greece
Scope and Contents
Sculpture
Box 170
Greece
Scope and Contents
Sculpture
Box 59
Greece
Scope and Contents
Athens, Cyprus, Epidaurus. Photographers: Dumas, Felix Bonfils, Alinari, Merlin
Box 60
Greece
Scope and Contents
Athens, Cyprus, Epidaurus. Photographers: Dumas, Felix Bonfils, Alinari, Merlin
Box 61
Greece
Scope and Contents
Olympia, Temple of Zeus, Athens, Parthenon
Box 184
Greece
Scope and Contents
Athens
Box 185
Greece
Box 281
Greece
Box 282
Greece
Box 58
Holland
Box 58
Hungary
Box 54
Iraq
Box 74
Italy
Scope and Contents
Agrigentum, Altari, Alba Fucense, Amalfi, Aragni, Ancona
Box 75
Italy
Scope and Contents
Aquila, Arezza, Assisi, Baja, Benevento, Bolagra, Bordigherra, Branoli, Brindisi
Box 76
Italy
Scope and Contents
Capranica, Capri, Carrara, Carsol, Caserta, Castael S. Ella, Castellamma
Box 77
Italy
Scope and Contents
Cefalu, Civita Catellana, Civitavecchia, Collodi, Lago di Como
Box 78
Italy
Scope and Contents
Corneto Tarquinia, Cortona, Faenza, Ferentino, Fiesole, Figline
Box 79
Italy
Scope and Contents
Florence
Box 80
Italy
Scope and Contents
Florence
Box 81
Italy
Scope and Contents
Florence
Box 82
Italy
Scope and Contents
Florence
Box 83
Italy
Scope and Contents
Florence
Box 84
Italy
Scope and Contents
Florence
Box 85
Italy
Scope and Contents
Florence
Box 86
Italy
Scope and Contents
Florence
Box 87
Italy
Scope and Contents
Florence
Box 88
Italy
Scope and Contents
Genoa, Gaeta, Frascati, Fondi, Foligno, Florence Castelo di Vincigliata
Box 89
Italy
Scope and Contents
Genoa
Box 90
Italy
Scope and Contents
Genoa, Loreto, Lammari, Isolabella, Herculaneum, Gubbio, Grotta Ferrata, Grassi
Box 91
Italy
Scope and Contents
Messina, Massi-Marittima, Maser, Maddaloni, Licca
Box 92
Italy
Scope and Contents
Monreale, Milan
Box 93
Italy
Scope and Contents
Monreale, Milan
Box 94
Italy
Scope and Contents
Monte Cassino, Monte Fiascone, Montone, Montesansani, Monte Pulciano, Naples
Box 95
Italy
Scope and Contents
Naples
Box 96
Italy
Scope and Contents
Orvietto
Box 97
Italy
Scope and Contents
Palermo, Paestum, Ostia
Box 98
Italy
Scope and Contents
Palermo
Box 99
Italy
Scope and Contents
Palermo, Pallanea, Parenzo, Pavia
Box 100
Italy
Scope and Contents
Perugia, Pegli, Pavia
Box 101
Italy
Scope and Contents
Pistoia, Pisa, Pienza, Piacenza
Box 102
Italy
Scope and Contents
Pompeii
Box 103
Italy
Scope and Contents
Pomepeii, Ravello, Prato, Pozzuoili, Porto Marizio
Box 104
Italy
Scope and Contents
Ravenna
Box 105
Italy
Scope and Contents
Ravenna
Box 106
Italy
Scope and Contents
Ravenna, Recanati
Box 107
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: General views, churches
Box 108
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: Churches- Chiesa di S. Clemente, S. Giovanni in Laterano, S. Domenico, Fuori Le Mura, S. Maria di Monserrato
Box 109
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: Churches- S. Maria in Areacoeli, Maria Maggiore, S. Maria del Popolo, S. Paolo Fuiri le Mura
Box 110
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: various churches, public spaces--Piazza Barberini, Castel San Angelo, Campidoglio
Box 111
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: Public spaces and fountains
Box 112
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: Public spaces, fountains, private villas--Albani, Palazzo Borghese
Box 113
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: Villa Colonna, Palazzo Corsini, Palazzo Farnese, Quirinale, Palazzo Mateo, Villa Medici, Palazzo Sciarra, Palazzo Spada, Pantheon, Via Appia
Box 114
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: Temples by the Tiber, miscellaneous temples, basilicae and tombs, sarcophagi, Baths of Caracalla and Diocletian, Colosseum
Box 115
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: Roman forum, Trajan's Forum, miscellaneous buildings and mosaics
Box 116
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: mosaics
Box 117
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: Vatican
Box 118
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: Vatican
Box 119
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome: Vatican, Salerno. Sassovivo, Savona, Selinus, San Miniato, San Remo, San Severino, Sarzana, Sessa
Box 120
Italy
Scope and Contents
Sicily, Siena
Box 121
Italy
Scope and Contents
Siena
Box 122
Italy
Scope and Contents
Siracusa, Solmona, Solunta, Sorrento, Spleto, Stra, Subiaco, Taormina, terracina, Tivoli, Todi, Toscanella, Trient, Urbino
Box 123
Italy
Scope and Contents
Venice: Palazzo Ducale, Ca d'Oro
Box 124
Italy
Scope and Contents
Venice: Panoramas, general views, miscellaneous, San Marco
Box 125
Italy
Scope and Contents
Venice: miscellaneous. Verona
Box 126
Italy
Scope and Contents
Venice: Mosaics
Box 127
Italy
Scope and Contents
Venice: mosaics. Viterbo, Vicenza
Box 128
Italy
Box 129
Italy
Box 130
Italy
Box 131
Italy
Box 185
Italy
Box 283
Italy
Box 284
Italy
Box 285
Italy
Box 286
Italy
Box 310
Italy
Box 167
Italy
Scope and Contents
Sculpture
Box 168
Italy
Scope and Contents
Sculpture
Box 172
Italy
Scope and Contents
Decorative arts
Box 175
Italy
Scope and Contents
American Academy in Rome: France, Greece, Africa, Spain, 1940 competition drawings
Box 176
Italy
Scope and Contents
American Academy in Rome: France, Greece, Africa, Spain, 1940 competition drawings
Box 177
Italy
Scope and Contents
American Academy in Rome: France, Greece, Africa, Spain, 1940 competition drawings
Box 178
Italy
Scope and Contents
American Academy in Rome: France, Greece, Africa, Spain, 1940 competition drawings
Box 179
Italy
Scope and Contents
American Academy in Rome: France, Greece, Africa, Spain, 1940 competition drawings
Box 248
Italy
Scope and Contents
Florence, Messina, Molfetta, Monreale, Murano, Naples
Box 305
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome, Florence, Venice
Box 308
Italy
Scope and Contents
Rome, Florence, Venice
Box 54
Malta
Box 54
Monaco
Box 1
Scotland
Scope and Contents
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Roslin, Stirling, Ayr
Box 53
Spain
Box 264
Spain
Scope and Contents
Alcala de Henares, Alcantara, Alicante, Avila, Barcelona, Burgos, Calahorra, Cartagena, Cogolludo, Cordoba, Riofrio, Sintra
Box 17
Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Sweden
Box 57
Switzerland
Box 308
Switzerland
Scope and Contents
Lugano
Box 29
Sweden
Scope and Contents
Gotland churches, Borgholm Castle, Gripsholm Castle, Trollhatte Canal, Gota Canal, Motala, Skokloster, Linkoping, Stockholm
Box 11
Unknown European
Box 18
Unknown European
Series II. North America
Subseries IIa. United States
Box 2
World's Fair Columbian Exhibition
 1893
Box 3
World's Fair Columbian Exhibition
 1893
Box 5
World's Fair Columbian Exhibition, California
Box 19
Arizona
Scope and Contents
Grand Canyon
Box 19
California
Scope and Contents
Los Andeles, San Diego, Panama-California Exposition
Box 19
Connecticut
Scope and Contents
Wethersfield Web House, Valley
Box 193
Illinois
Scope and Contents
Chicago: Columbian Exposition 1893
Box 194
Illinois
Scope and Contents
Chicago: Columbian Exposition 1893
Box 20
Illinois
Scope and Contents
Lockport: William Gooding House, La Grange: Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Chicago
Box 20
Iowa
Scope and Contents
Iowa City: Old Stone Capital Building
Box 21
Maine
Scope and Contents
Portland: Morse-Libby Mansion, York Beach
Box 21
Maryland
Scope and Contents
Baltimore: Lovely Lane Methodist Church
Box 4
Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York
Scope and Contents
Baltimore, Danvers, Groton, Salem, Concord, Ithaca. Photographers: Moulton-Erickson, WH Kimball and Sons, Howes
Box 20
Massachusetts
Scope and Contents
Cambridge: Harvard
Box 21
Massachusetts
Scope and Contents
Bostine, Brookline, Cambridge, North Easton, Salem, Wellesley, Williamstown, Woburn
Box 21
Michigan
Scope and Contents
Detroit: Bagley Fountain
Box 23
New Hampshire
Scope and Contents
Concord, Portsmouth
Box 23
New Jersey
Scope and Contents
Madison
Box 22
New York
Scope and Contents
Albany, Auburn, Buffalo, Chatham, Ithaca, Garden City, Mamaroneck, New York City, Saratoga Springs
Box 23
New York
Scope and Contents
New York City
Box 192
New York
Scope and Contents
New York City
Box 309
New York
Scope and Contents
New York City
Box 192
New York
Scope and Contents
Ithaca: Sage Chapel
Box 24
Ohio
Scope and Contents
Cleveland
Box 309
Ohio
Scope and Contents
Columbus
Box 24
Pennsylvania
Scope and Contents
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
Box 24
Rhode Island
Scope and Contents
Bristol, Narragansett, Newport
Box 24
South Carolina
Scope and Contents
Charleston
Box 24
Utah
Scope and Contents
Salt Lake City
Box 25
Virginia
Scope and Contents
Williamsburg, James City County, Richmond County
Box 185
Virginia
Scope and Contents
Thomas Jefferson's house at Monticello
Box 26
Washington, D.C.
Box 166
Unidentified locations
Box 186
United States
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous
Box 187
United States
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous
Box 188
United States
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous
Box 189
United States
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous
Box 190
United States
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous
Box 191
United States
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous
Series III. Central America, South America, and the Caribbean
Box 195
Brazil
Box 191
Costa Rica
Box 27
Mexico:
Scope and Contents
Mexico City, Veracruz, Palenque, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Sayil, Xiuloc
Box 28
Mexico
Scope and Contents
Mexico City, Aguacalientes, Amecameca, Queretaro, Zacatecas, Veracruz, Xcavil de Yaxche, Palenque
Box 43
Haiti
Scope and Contents
Port-au-Prince, modern domestic architecture
Series IV. Middle East and North Africa
Box 68
Egypt
Box 69
Egypt
Box 70
Egypt
Box 71
Egypt
Box 72
Egypt
Box 73
Egypt
Box 168
Egypt
Scope and Contents
Sculpture
Box 273
Egypt
Scope and Contents
Egyptian Temple Complex, Karnak, Giza, Cauro
Box 54
Iraq
Box 58
Palestine
Box 58
Unidentified
Box 64
Syria
Scope and Contents
Including ancient Assyrian art
Box 65
Turkey
Box 66
Turkey
Box 273
Turkey
Scope and Contents
Constantinople: Hagia Sophia, Suleymaniye Mosque, Sultan Ahmet III Fountain, city panorama, Burnt Column, Galata Tower. Bursa: Mausoleum and Tomb of Sultan Osman
Box 67
Jordan
Box 64
Lebanon
Box 67
Lebanon
Box 62
Israel
Box 63
Israel
Series V. Asia
Box 67
Japan
Series VI. Miscellaneous
Box 12
Gardens and gates, from the John Larkin library
Box 180
Decorative Arts
Scope and Contents
Metropolitan Museum of Art period rooms
Box 181
Decorative Arts
Scope and Contents
Metropolitan Museum of Art period rooms
Box 182
Decorative Arts
Scope and Contents
Metropolitan Museum of Art period rooms
Box 183
Decorative Arts
Scope and Contents
Metropolitan Museum of Art period rooms
Box 132
Unidentified
Box 133
Unidentified
Box 174
Miscellaneous decorative arts