American Trade Catalogs

Miss the Olympics? Try exploring the American Trade Catalog collection, which includes items such as this American Athletic Equipment catalog from 1975. Housed in Avery Classics, the Trade Catalog Collection is one of the largest collections of catalogs of the American building trades anywhere, and significant resource of information about the history of the built […]

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Pedro E. Guerrero, photographer of F.L. Wright’s work

Pedro E. Guerrero, a photographer who spent years photographing Frank Lloyd Wright's modernist architecture died on Thursday Sept. 13, 2012.  New York Times obituary He was Wright's exclusive photographer for the last 20 years of Wright's life. He also photographed works by Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer. Detail of  the 1987 […]

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FL Wright Archives join collections of Avery and MoMA

Columbia University, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation have announced that the vast archives of Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867-1959) have been jointly acquired by the University and the Museum and will become part of their permanent collections. Wright is considered by many to be one of the 20th century’s […]

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