Today is Veterans Day. Avery Library has a great deal of material related to monuments, memorials and military architecture. Our Drawings & Archives collection has Henry Ogden Avery‘s competition entry for a memorial for Ulysses S. Grant [unbuilt] as well as drawings by Harold Van Buren Magonigle for a World War I Veterans Memorial in […]
Category: Avery Classics Collection
Account Books in Avery Classics Collection
Readers who missed the Morgan Library’s recent exhibition Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, which closed on October 2, can get their fix at Avery Library. Avery has hundreds of architects’ notebooks, sketchbooks, account books and other personal documents of the building trade. To […]
Happy 80th Birthday GW Bridge!!
The George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York was dedicated 80 years ago yesterday on Oct. 24, 1931 and opened to traffic 80 years ago today on Oct. 25, 1931. Its chief engineer was Othmar Ammann. At the time it opened, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. We have a […]
Avery Real Estate Brochures in NY Times
Today’s New York Times has an article by Diane Cardwell about Manhattan real estate booms and busts which uses brochures and marketing materials from the Avery Library New York Real Estate Brochure Collection. The collection was donated by Yale Robbins, Henry Robbins, and David Magier in 1986. It consists of over 9,200 advertising brochures, floor […]
Chilean Mining at Avery
A year ago today, 33 miners were rescued from the San José copper and gold mine near Copiapó, Chile, after being trapped underground for 69 days. Avery Classics owns a rare and important document of the history of mining in Chile, a large presentation album of photographs of the establishment of Playa Blanca in Antofagasta. […]
Happy Birthday H.H. Richardson!
Today is the birthday of H.H. Richardson (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) a prominent American architect of the 19th century.The style he used is named after him: Richardsonian Romanesque. In our Classics Collection we have the book: "Communication from the County Commissioners to the Board of Prison Inspectors of Allegheny County in relation […]
Avery Classics resumes regular semester hours, with evening Thursday hours
On Tuesday, September 6–the first day of classes–the Avery Classics reading room will resume its regular semester hours. These are Monday through Friday, 1:00pm to 4:30pm; the reading room will also be open late on Thursday nights from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. You can confirm our opening hours on any day using our online calendar. To […]
Carolyn Yerkes appointed Curator of Avery Classics
Carolyn Yerkes joins Avery Library this week as its new Curator of Avery Classics A long-time reader in Avery Classics, Carolyn is well acquainted with our outstanding collection and with the worldwide community of scholars who work here throughout the year. Her substantial knowledge of architectural history and history of the book will guide her […]
Happy Birthday Inigo Jones
Happy Birthday to Inigo Jones, 7/15/1573-6/21/1652! Avery has numerous books in our Classics Collection– one of which is: "The most notable antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-heng on Salisbury plain. Restored by Inigo Jones …" Published: London, Printed by James Flesher for Daniel Pakeman and Lawrence Chapman, 1655 : 3 p.l., 109, [1]p. incl. […]
Avery Library Display of Recent Acquisitions Photos
The Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Display of Recent Acquisitions event took place on Monday, May 16, 2011. Please take a look at the photos which document the architectural and fine arts collections and research. […]