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Arnaud, Leopold, 1895-1984

Additional materials include carbons of typescript correspondence of lectures given by Dean William A. Boring (academic year 1933-1934) and Professor Theodor Karl Rohdenburg (academic year 1946-1947). Also design problems, the earliest of which were given in conjunction with the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, from academic years 1918-1919, 1926-1927, 1936-1937, 1949-1950, and 1957-1958. Also materials for the Architecture 51 class; correspondence of Joseph Hudnut; course outlines; correspondence relating to the search for a new dean of the school, 1957-1963.

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Columbia University. School of Architecture

Included are drawings--from preliminary sketches to finished renderings--done by students in the architecture program at the School of Mines at Columbia and, later, at the School of Architecture at Columbia. The bulk of these were done circa 1884-1912, during the tenures of Deans William Robert Ware (1881-1903) and A.D.F. Hamlin (1903-1912). Included in collection are student drawings by William A. Boring, Harry Allan Jacobs, Benjamin Wistar Morris, Jr., Julian Clarence Levi, Arthur Ware, Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, Leopold F. Arnaud, Perry Coke Smith, Theodor Karl Rohdenburg, and Aladar Olgyay. Also, drawings done by architecture students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, circa 1880s; a photograph, undated, of William Robert Ware; and one drawing, 1879, by architect Cass Gilbert.

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White, Stanford, 1853-1906

Collection consists primarily of White's letterpress books and correspondence, with some related bills, receipts, and other ephemera, 1887-1906, relating to his professional and personal matters. Correspondence, 1907, relates to his estate. Correspondents of note include William A. Boring, Richard Morris Hunt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louis C. Tiffany, John La Farge, Charles McKim, Frederick Law Olmsted, Whitney Warren, Stefano Bardini, Bessie White, William Merritt Chase, William Robert Ware, Kenyon Cox, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Percy Baker, Cass Gilbert, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, John Wanamaker, Carrère & Hastings, Thomas Dewing, James McNeill Whistler, Lawrence White, Richard White, and other architects, artists, contractors, suppliers, clients, friends, and family members. One letter book contains letters, 1922, by White's son Lawrence Grant White. Also included are White's architectural drawings for houses he built for himself at St. James, Long Island, 1892-1904, and 121 East 21st Street, New York, undated; miscellaneous drawings; and a few architectural drawings by Lawrence Grant White, and drafts of his translation of Dante's DIVINE COMEDY.

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Boring, William A (William Alciphron), 1859-1937

Also, typescripts of lectures delivered by Boring in architecture courses at Columbia, 1932-1933, miscellaneous typescripts of articles and printed materials, 1930-1933, and a typescript of Boring's autobiography, MEMORIES OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF WILLIAM A. BORING, circa 1937. Also included are four sketches by Henri Gauthier, Edward Tilton, Maurice Sashin, and Joseph Laudin.