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The Greene and Greene Collection contains a wide variety of materials, from Greene and Greene ancestor, architect/engineer James Sumner's "Memo of the Timber wanted for the Steeple in Providence," dated 1775, and a diary of a European grand tour from 1829 to 1931 by an English ancestor of Charles Greene's wife, Alice, to drawings and photographs of Greene and Greene works from the time of construction through the close of the 20th century. The bulk of the collection dates from 1889 to 1975. Photographs comprise most of the records documenting their architecture. There is a small number of architectural drawings; most of the firm's drawings are housed at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, New York City, with a smaller collection of drawings from the estate of Charles Greene at the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley. The collection is organized into four series: I. Personal papers, II. Office records, III. Job (project) records (including furniture), and IV. Related research materials. In general, the papers and records of both brothers have been kept together for the periods in which they were living together as students and young men, and for the period when they were partners in the firm of Greene and Greene. Within each series, the organization follows the separate lives and works of each brother from the dates at which they diverge. Although the collection has been assembled from many different sources, most items have a unique accession number identifying the donor, so that the researcher can easily identify the source of most documents.
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A bound volume containing specifications, diagrams, and photographs of steam locomotives used by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR), as well as predecessors such as the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company on the North Island of New Zealand. Includes diagrams and specifications for 47 different locomotive classes, 38 of which are accompanied by cyanotype photographs of representative locomotives. The book is organized according to a classification system developed by NZR, with each model diagram containing a list of the locomotive numbers (the highest number being 665) that match the class type (ranging from the A Compound-X compound). Most of the listed locomotives were built by the Addington Railway Workshops and the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, though other identified manufacturers include Avonside; Hillside; Manning Wardle; Nasmyth, Wilson; Petone; Rogers; Sharp, Stewart.
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Item is fragile and contains red rot. Volume of bound souvenir programs of various performances. Includes international programs (England, Russia, the Netherlands, Germany, France), as well as American.
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