Jo And Eloise A. Ray Papers,1920-1972.

Collection Number: 3760

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Jo and Eloise A. Ray papers, 1920-1972.
Collection Number:
3760
Creator:
Ray, Jo,
Quantity:
46 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Photographs, correspondence, artwork, records, and architectural plans.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes sketchbooks, drawings, photographs, correspondence, notebooks, resumes, estimates, and job plans of Jo Ray and Eloise Ray.
Language:
Collection material in English


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Jo Ray was a landscape architect who designed Bryant Park in New York City and laid out the 1939 New York World's Fair. He also landscaped private estates, schools in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts, and other private and public projects. He graduated from Cornell University in 1925. His wife, Eloise Ray was also a landscape architect.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes sketchbooks, drawings, photographs, correspondence, notebooks, resumes, estimates, and job plans of Jo Ray and Eloise Ray.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Ray, Jo, 1899-1973.
Ray, Eloise Anderson
Ray, Eloise Anderson.

Subjects:
Landscape architecture.
Landscape architects.
Landscape architecture

Form and Genre Terms:
Drawings.
Photographs.
Sketchbooks.


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Jo and Eloise Ray. Papers, #3760. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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