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McKim, Charles Follen 1847-1909

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Works: 127 works in 160 publications in 4 languages and 2,432 library holdings
Roles: Former owner
Classifications: na737.m4, 720.657471
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Most widely held works by Charles Follen McKim
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1 edition published in in English and held by 379 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 47 libraries worldwide
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Architectural drawings and photographs of buildings designed by the firm dating approximately from its founding to the 1950s. Among those represented are buildings at the World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, 1893; Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York, 1906-1910; restoration, 1903, of the White House, Washington, D.C.; buildings at Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus, New York; Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass.; E.W. Morgan mansion; Municipal Building, N.Y.; Col. Elliott Shepherd House, Scarborough, N.Y.; buildings at Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.; Bellevue Hospital, New York; various New York City residences; and others. Also included are competition drawings for the New York Public Library; miscellaneous drawings and sketches; photographs of the partners and of other members of the firm; lists of the firm's work; correspondence including two copybooks of letters by Stanford White concerning the construction of the R. W. Patterson House in Washington, D.C., 1900-1905, and the redecoration of the C.T. Barney House in New York City, 1901-1906; clippings of articles about the firm; lists of the firm's employees; billing records, 1953-1955; account books, 1940s-1950s; bank books, 1895-1955; award certificates; and other office miscellany.
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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, Carrè€re & 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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Exhibitions -- world's fairs -- exterior view of the central portico and dome topped off by Saint-Gauden's statue (sculpture) of Diana -- Chicago, Illinois, 1893 -- American -- 19th century -- architect firm: McKim, Mead & White (Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White).
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24 letters received, including 4 from Henry Hobson Richardson, 2 from Charles F. McKim, 1 each from Stanford White and William Rutherford Mead, others from C.W. Norcross and Charles D. Gambrill. 50 additional items include biographical information about Rutan, photographs and illustrations of architecture (many annotated by Henry-Russell Hitchcock), a list of buildings Rutan worked on, and miscellany.
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in Multiple languages and held by 1 library worldwide
Correspondence, treasurers' records, officers' records, miscellaneous records, printed mater, legal documents, Board of Trustees committee minutes, staff records, rosters, photographs, and personal papers and ephemera.
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide
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Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, diary transcript, notes, legal and financial records, sketches, drawings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to the firm of McKim, Mead, & White, New York, N.Y. Documents McKim's designs for the Boston Public Library and Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass.; Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus and the University Club, New York, N.Y.; Rhode Island State House, Providence, R.I.; restoration of the White House, Washington, D.C.; and the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,Ill, 1893. Also documents McKim's work on the U.S. Senate Commission for the Improvement of the District of Columbia concerned with the location and treatment of public buildings and grounds along the Mall and his membership on the Grant Memorial Commission. Includes material pertaining to McKim's membership in societies and clubs including the American Institute of Architects, the Century Club, and the University Club. Subjects include the development of American architecture, establishment of the American Academy in Rome, and efforts of abolitionists to provide aid for newly freed slaves in the years following the Civil War. Diary includes McKim's account of an 1863 walking tour with Francis Jackson Garrison and Wendell Phillips Garrison to the Gettysburg battlefield and other areas in eastern Pennsylvania.
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Three letters to Charles A. Platt from acquaintences Francis Seymour Haden (June 3), Oliver Herford, and Abbott Handerson Thayer (April 20); one letter to Dennis M. Bunker, friend and colleague of Charles A. Platt, from Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Oct. 21); one letter from Bunker to Anne Page (August 1886); a Christmas card to Bunker's wife, Eleanor Hardy Bunker Platt. Other letters include a handwritten invitation to Eleanor Hardy from Lowffler and a letter from Charles F. McKim, colleague of Platt's, to Mary J. Lawrence (July 9).
 
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controlled identity McKim, Mead & White

Charles Follen McKim 1847-1909
MacKim, Charles F. 1847-1909
MacKim, Charles Follen 1847-1909
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