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Book Collection of Charles S. Greene
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Box 41
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Hearn, Lafcadio. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan. Vols 1, 2, Boston, 1894 Hearn, Lafcadio. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. Boston, 1896 Hearn, Lafcadio. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Boston, 1904 Hearn, Lafcadio. Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation. New York, 1905 Hearn, Lafcadio. In Ghostly Japan. Boston, 1905 Hearn, Lafcadio. Shadowings. Boston, 1905 Hearn, Lafcadio. Some Chinese Ghosts. Boston, 1906 Gould's Blue Book for the City of St. Louis. Vol IX, 1891
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Charles S. Greene Photograph Collection
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Contains Charles Greene family photographs, including children, parents, sisters of Alice Gordon White Greene, and members of Henry Greene's family. Boxes 14 and 15 contain photos taken by Charles in Europe (1901) and England (1901, 1909). Flat File Folder 39 (Series III.A.)contains 2 panoramic photographs of attendees at the 1911 AIA meeting in San Francisco, and 3 prints of a photograph of attendees at the 1948 AIA dinner honoring the Greenes in Los Angeles.
Subseries F.
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Book Collection of Greene And Greene
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Three books from the office library of Greene and Greene
Subseries K.
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Charles S. Greene Business Correspondence
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At the end of Box 3 and continuing into Box 4 is a series of letters, announcements, and advertisements of a professional or business nature, organized alphabetically. These include communications with stockbrokers and banks, orders for books or subscriptions to periodicals, invoices from Hall Manufacturing Co. for furniture, pamphlets, guides, and other ephemera.
Subseries C.
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Charles S. Greene Notes, Diaries, Writings
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At the end of Box 4 are three notebooks, two dating from the 1890s and one from the 1930s, and 2 diaries (appointment books) from the 1940s. Continuing in Box 5 are folders containing fragmentary writings and notes, both prose and verse, various scratchpads with notes and sketches, and the typescript of Charles' novel Thais Thayer (c. 1916), as well as a typescript of an essay entitled "Symbolism" (1932).
Subseries D.
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Scrapbooks: Greene and Greene, Charles, Henry
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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.
Subseries H.