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Engineering

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel Nott papers

Collection Identifier: Mss:705 1837-1886 N918
Scope and Contents:

Five letter books of outgoing letters of a railroad construction engineer who helped construct several New England railroads. The letter books cover the years 1837 through 1850, 1857 through 1878, and 1886. Also included are notes and reports.

The Antoine Picon Teaching and Research Collection

Collection Identifier: DES-2021-0001-99156217779903941
Scope and Contents:

The collection mostly consists of writing (typescripts and notes) and reference material (photocopies of archival material with notes, reproductions of various secondary literature, and slides). It also contains teaching material (course readers and lecture notes), as well as assorted material related to conferences, lectures, and other public presentations. The bulk of the material from is from 1981 - 2000.

Robert L. Van Nice fieldwork records and papers

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
Collection Identifier: MS.BZ.012
Scope and Contents: This collection documents the architectural survey of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, conducted by Robert L. Van Nice from the late 1930s to the 1980s. The project was sponsored by William Emerson, Dean of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), from 1937 until Emerson’s death in 1957. The project was then sponsored by Dumbarton Oaks until Van Nice’s retirement in 1989. Materials in the collection include administrative records, correspondence, research...