Scope and Contents
Organizational files, including invitations, correspondence, photographs and the texts of tributes to Lewis Mumford, assembled by Charles M. Haar and Jerold S. Kayden. Haar and Kayden were organizers of the events celebrating Mumford as the first recipient of The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Award.
The collection includes correspondence and announcements related to the award dinner, the texts of tributes contributed by guests, and photographs of the dinner/award ceremony.
The edited “proceedings” of the event was published as A Tribute to Lewis Mumford : First Recipient, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Award, 1979-1980 (Cambridge, Mass : Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1982).
Dates
- 1979-1982
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
1 linear feet (collection)Biography
Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) was a notable and prolific writer and critic, best-known for his studies of urban life, architectural history, and the effects of technological development on human societies and cultures. Mumford was architectural critic for The New Yorker Magazine for over thirty years and was a founding member of the Regional Planning Association of America. Mumford’s work as a journalist was supplemented by numerous books, including The Brown Decades, The Myth of the Machine and The City in History (winner of the National Book Award). Among Mumford’s many awards was the the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which he received in 1964.
Arrangement
The collection is composed of of Series IA-IB (Correspondence/Acceptances/Regrets/Tributes), Series IC (Letters of Invitation), Series ID (Guest List & Program), Series IE (Correspondence.Mumford/Haar), Series IF (Miscellaneous Correspondence), Series IIA (Remarks by Lewis Mumford), Series III (Photographs), Series IV (Photographs of Boghosian collage), Series VA (Text as published), Series VB (Clippings file), Series VC (TM Lewis Mumford: A Bibliography//Elmer S. Newman).
Acquisition Information
Immediate source of acquisition: Gift of Jerold S. Kayden, 1998.
Processing Information:
Processed by: Mary Daniels
Personal Names Index
- -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
- Bacon, Edmund -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Barnes, Edward L., 1915- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Barry, Marion S. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Bell, Daniel, 1916- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Bell, David E. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Biddle, Livingston L., 1918- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Blake, Peter -- Correspondence
- <ptr target="des00009c00001" xlink:title="IA, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00002" xlink:title="IB" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Boghosian, Varujan -- Photographs
- <ptr target="des00009c00008" xlink:title="III, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00009" xlink:title="IV" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Bok, Derek -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Bok, Sissela -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Boorstin, Daniel J. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Bridenbaugh, Carl -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Brown, Denise Scott-, 1921- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Byrne, Jane, 1933- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Campbell, Robert -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Catalano, Eduardo, 1917- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Chase, Stuart, 1888-1985 -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Clay, Grady -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Cohen, Harold L. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Coleman, William T., jr -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Commager, Henry Steele, 1902- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Cook, Charles C. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Cori, Carl Ferdinand, 1896- -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
- Cousins, Norman, 1912- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Davis, Arthur -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Doebele, William A. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Dubos, Rene Jules, 1901- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Duffey, Joseph -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
- Duffey, Joseph D -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Dukakis, Michael Stanley, 1933- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Duncan, Otis Dudley -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Eldredge, H. Wentworth -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Embry, Robert C. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Fisher, Joseph -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Fitch, James Marston -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Fitch, Lyle Craig -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Fuller, R. Buckminster, 1895- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Gans, Herbert J. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Glazer, Nathan -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Goldschmidt, Neil -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Goodman, Percival -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Goodman, Percival -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
- Gottmann, Jean -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Graubard, Stephen -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Haar, Charles Monroe, 1920- -- Correspondence
- <ptr target="des00009c00003" xlink:title="IC, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00005" xlink:title="IE, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00006" xlink:title="IF" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Haar, Charles Monroe, 1920- -- Organization files
- (Collection)
- Haar, Charles Monroe, 1920- -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
- Halprin, Lawrence -- Correspondence
- <ptr target="des00009c00001" xlink:title="IA, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00002" xlink:title="IB" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Handlin, Oscar, 1915- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Hardee, Covington -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Harris, Patricia Roberts -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Huxtable, Ada Louise -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Jackson, Maynard -- Correspondence
- <ptr target="des00009c00001" xlink:title="IA, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00002" xlink:title="IB" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Jacobs, Jane, 1916- -- Correspondence
- <ptr target="des00009c00001" xlink:title="IA, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00002" xlink:title="IB" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Johnson, Philip C. 1906- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Jones, Reginald -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Kayden, Jerold S. -- Correspondence
- <ptr target="des00009c00001" xlink:title="IA, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00006" xlink:title="IF" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Kayden, Jerold S. -- Organization files
- (Collection)
- Kennedy, Edward M., 1932- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906- -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
- Koch, Edward, 1924- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Kristol, Irving -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Landrieu, Moon -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Lewis, Anthony, 1927- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00006
- IF
- Lilienthal, David Eli, 1899-19819 -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Lincoln, David -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
- Llewelyn-Davies, Richard, 1912- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Lynch, Kevin, 1918- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Marcus, Norman, 1932- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Marx, Leo, 1919- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- McCue, Gerald Mallon -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
- McHarg, Ian -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- McKelvey, Blake, 1903- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Menzies, Ian -- Correspondence
- <ptr target="des00009c00001" xlink:title="IA, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00001" xlink:title="IA, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00002" xlink:title="IB" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Meyerson, Martin -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Moltke, Willo von -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Morial, Ernest -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895- -- Bibliographies
- des00009c00012
- VC
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895- -- Clippings files.
- <ptr target="des00009c00011" xlink:title="VB, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00011" xlink:title="VB" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00005
- IE
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895- -- Drafts
- des00009c00007
- IIA
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895- -- Organization files
- (Collection)
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895- -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895- -- Publications
- des00009c00010
- VA
- Mumford, Sophie -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
- Newman, Elmer Simon, 1919- -- Bibliographies
- des00009c00012
- VC
- Pei, I.M., 1917- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Pell, Claiborne -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Perloff, Harvey -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Portman, John C. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Reilly, William K. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Reisman, David A. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Reps, John -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Reuss, Henry S. -- Correspondence
- <ptr target="des00009c00001" xlink:title="IA, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00002" xlink:title="IB" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Riesman, David A. -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
- Rockefeller, David -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Schlesinger, Arthur , 1917- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Scott, Mellier G. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Sert, Josep Lluis, 1902-1982 -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Sert, Josep Lluis, 1902-1982 -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
- Sert, Josep Lluis, 1902-1983 -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Shapiro, Irving -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Stubbins, Hugh A., 1912- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Thompson, Benjamin -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Tree, Marietta, 1917- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Tsongas, Paul -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Tunnard, Lydia (Mrs. Christopher) -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Venturi, Robert -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Von Eckhardt, Wolf -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Warner, Sam Bass, 1928- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Weaver, Robert C. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Webber, Melvin -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Weese, Harry, 1915- -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Whyte, William A. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Williams, Harrison A. -- Correspondence
- des00009c00001
- IA
- Winnick, Louis -- Correspondence
- des00009c00002
- IB
- Woolery, Arlo -- Photographs
- des00009c00008
- III
Corporate Names Index
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy -- Correspondence
- des00009c00003
- IC
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy -- Organization files
- (Collection)
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy -- Publications
- des00009c00010
- VA
LC Topical Headings Index
- City planners--United States -- Organization files
- (Collection)
- City planning--Awards -- Organization files
- (Collection)
Genre / Form Index
- Bibliographies /
- des00009c00012
- VC
- Clippings files. /
- des00009c00011
- VB
- Collages /
- des00009c00009
- IV
- Correspondence /
- <ptr xlink:title="(Collection), " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00001" xlink:title="IA, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00002" xlink:title="IB, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00003" xlink:title="IC, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00005" xlink:title="IE, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00006" xlink:title="IF" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Drafts /
- <ptr target="des00009c00003" xlink:title="IC, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00007" xlink:title="IIA" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Lists /
- des00009c00004
- ID
- Organization files /
- (Collection)
- Photographs /
- <ptr target="des00009c00008" xlink:title="III, " xlink:type="simple"></ptr> <ptr target="des00009c00009" xlink:title="IV" xlink:type="simple"></ptr>
- Photographs /
- (Collection)
- Programs /
- des00009c00004
- ID
- Publications /
- des00009c00010
- VA
- Testimonials /
- (Collection)
AAT Terms Index
- City planners -- Organization files
- (Collection)
- Title
- Mumford, Lewis (A Tribute), 1979-1982: An Inventory.
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library. Harvard University, Graduate School of Design.
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- des00009
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