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Myron Goldsmith (creator)
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Title
Office and Research Files
Dates of creation
1942-1953
Level of archival description
File 1
Extent and Medium
154 photographs
22 files of textual records
19 reprographic copies
4 notebooks
1 file of photographic material
1 book
Scope and Content
Documents concerning Goldsmith's relationship with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as a student and employee. Included are student research notes, papers and drawings, Goldsmith's master thesis under Mies at I.I.T., and from Mies' Chicago office photographs, specifications and related documents to I.I.T. buildings and other projects.
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AP032.S1.SS2.D1
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Reference Number: ARCH215095
Title: Notes and calculations for Mies van der Rohe projects, including the Farnsworth House and I.I.T. buildings
Form: books
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
4 notebook(s)
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Folder Number:
32-003T-043
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Reference Number: ARCH215096
Title: Research notes on Wright, Fuller, Maillart and Corbusier
Dates of creation: ca. 1946
Form: textual records
Catalogued items within this file 4
People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Folder Number:
32-003T-044
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ARCH252083
Notes about Mies's ideas on Farnsworth House with a section of Farnsworth House, a section of beams, and a corner detail of IIT Navy Building (now Alumni Memorial Hall)
Form: textual records
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ARCH252086
Notes about Mies's ideas on skyscrapers, glass as a material, and Farnsworth House, with sketches
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Reference Number: ARCH215097
Title: Master thesis studies and research, “The Literature of City Planning” by L. Hilberseimer
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Description:
master thesis studies and research, “The Literature of City Planning” by L. Hilberseimer, notes on structure, calculations and notebook
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1 file(s)
Folder Number:
32-003T-045
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Reference Number: ARCH215098
Title: Research notes and texts by Buckminister Fuller
Dates of creation: ca. 1944-1946
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Folder Number:
32-003T-046a
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Reference Number: ARCH215099
Title: Notes on F.L. Wright, Mies's program for architectural education
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Description:
notes on F.L. Wright, Mies's program for architectural education, photograph (model) and brochure of Algonquin Apartments, sub-contracts for I.I.T. Chemistry and Metallurgy buildings
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Technique and media:
Gelatin silver print and diazotype
Folder Number:
32-003T-046b
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Reference Number: ARCH215100
Title: Farnsworth House unit cost
Dates of creation: May 1946
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Description:
estimate
Quantity / Object type:
1 textual record(s)
Folder Number:
32-003T-046c
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Reference Number: ARCH215101
Title: Research notes on engineering, structure, philosophy, aesthetics, discussion with Mies and B. Fuller lecture notes
Form: textual records
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Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
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1 file(s)
Folder Number:
32-003T-047a
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Reference Number: ARCH215102
Title: Notes on structure and engineering lab calculations
Dates of creation: ca. 1946-1949
Form: textual records
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Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Folder Number:
32-003T-047b
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Reference Number: ARCH215103
Title: Copies of student drawings (originals kept by Goldsmith), annotated in graphite
Form: drawings
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
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1 reprographic copy(ies)
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Folder Number:
32-003T-048
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Reference Number: ARCH215104
Title: Site and building studies for housing, possibly by L. Hilberseimer
Form: drawings
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
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16 reprographic copy(ies)
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Technique and media:
Gelatin silver prints and photocopies
Folder Number:
32-004T-049
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Reference Number: ARCH215120
Title: Studies for housing - perspectives, plans, elevations and details
Form: drawings
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
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22 reprographic copy(ies)
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Photostats
Folder Number:
32-007S-04
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Reference Number: ARCH215142
Title: Notes and sketches possibly related to Goldsmith's thesis and articles on skyscrapers
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Technique and media:
2 gelatin silver prints
Folder Number:
32-004T-050
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Reference Number: ARCH215143
Title: Documents concerned with Mies van der Rohe and his work
Form: textual records
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People:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (subject)
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Description:
documents concerned with Mies van der Rohe and his work - brochures on Mies, Mies exhibition, Promontory Apts., 860-880 Lakeshore Drive, Algonquin Apts., periodical, apartment building brochure, I.I.T. lecture brochure (Mies, Serge Chermayeff, Walter Gropius) and photographs of Lakeshore Drive Apts. model
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Technique and media:
Gelatin silver print
Folder Number:
32-004T-051
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Reference Number: ARCH215144
Title: Correspondence from Sargent & Lundy engineers and product brochure
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Technique and media:
Diazotype print
Folder Number:
32-004T-052
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Reference Number: ARCH215145
Title: Student reading lists and papers
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Folder Number:
32-004T-053
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Reference Number: ARCH215147
Title: Photographs from an envelope labelled “Dr. Farhnsworth”
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Description:
137 photographs from an envelope labelled “Dr. Farhnsworth”, includes views of buildings, (some by F.L. Wright and Mies), people, Mies' furniture and exhibition, architectural model (Cantor Drive-In Restaurant)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Technique and media:
Gelatin silver prints
Folder Number:
32-004T-054a-b
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Reference Number: ARCH215283
Title: Product brochures, notes, articles, photographs of suspended pipe lines and Eiffel Tower, periodicals and correspondence
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Technique and media:
Gelatin silver prints
Folder Number:
32-004T-055
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Reference Number: ARCH215284
Title: Typescript “The Monadnock Building”, construction photograph and clippings
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Technique and media:
Gelatin silver print
Folder Number:
32-004T-056
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Reference Number: ARCH215285
Title: Farnsworth House, I.I.T., Boiler Plant and unidentified detail
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
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Technique and media:
Gelatin silver prints
Folder Number:
32-004T-057
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Reference Number: ARCH215288
Title: Views of model of 860-880 Lakeshore Drive Apartments and Boiler Plant
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
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Technique and media:
Gelatin silver prints
Folder Number:
32-004T-058
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Reference Number: ARCH215292
Title: Chapel, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Dates of creation: 1950
Form: textual records
Catalogued items within this file 0
People:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (architect)
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Description:
specifications for substructure and superstructure
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Folder Number:
32-004T-059
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Reference Number: ARCH215293
Title: House for Dr. E. Farnsworth
Dates of creation: 1949
Form: textual records
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People:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (architect)
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Description:
specifications for general and special conditions
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Location:
Plano
Illinois
United States
Folder Number:
32-004T-060a
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Reference Number: ARCH215294
Title: Farnsworth House
Form: photographs
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)
Technique and media:
Gelatin silver print
Physical Description:
matted
Folder Number:
32-003S-089
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Reference Number: ARCH215295
Title: Farnsworth House
Dates of creation: ca. 1950
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Description:
2 photographs: views of the house under construction and completed
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Technique and media:
Gelatin silver prints
Folder Number:
32-004T-060b
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Reference Number: ARCH215297
Title: Portrait of Mies, Farnsworth House Conceptual Sketch and a note on Mies' structural system
Dates of creation: 1950
Form: textual records
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People:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (subject)
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Technique and media:
Gelatin silver print
Folder Number:
32-005T-060C
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Reference Number: ARCH215298
Title: Clipping, Chicago Sunday Tribune and Mies van der Rohe's 50X50 house design
Dates of creation: 24 August 1952
Form: textual records
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People:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (subject)
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Folder Number:
32-005T-061
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Reference Number: ARCH215299
Title: Correspondence, product brochures, notes on waterproofing
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Description:
correspondence, product brochures, notes on waterproofing, postcard, cost estimates, Gas Institute Building structural designs, calculations and notes
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1 file(s)
Folder Number:
32-005T-062
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Reference Number: ARCH215300
Title: Boiler Plant, I.I.T., Chicago
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Description:
correspondence and structural schematics (blueprints)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Folder Number:
32-005T-063
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Reference Number: ARCH215301
Title: Cost estimates for I.I.T. buildings
Dates of creation: 1949-1953
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Technique and media:
Index cards and typed copy
Folder Number:
32-005T-064
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Reference Number: ARCH215302
Title: Information on radio antenna towers, correspondence and product brochures
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Technique and media:
Diazotypes
Folder Number:
32-005T-065
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Reference Number: ARCH215303
Title: Number graphics
Form: drawings
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 reprographic copy(ies)
Technique and media:
Blueprints
Folder Number:
32-005T-066
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Reference Number: ARCH215304
Title: J.W. Sugden correspondence, photographs of industrial machinery and constructions
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Technique and media:
Gelatin silver prints
Folder Number:
32-005T-067
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Reference Number: ARCH215305
Title: Model of Borovay House and a perspective of unidentified building
Form: textual records
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
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1 file(s)
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Technique and media:
Gelatin silver prints
Folder Number:
32-005T-068
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Reference Number: ARCH215312
Title: Residence for Dr. Joel F. Sammet
Form: drawings
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Description:
specifications for general work, drainage and plumbing and detail drawing
Quantity / Object type:
1 reprographic copy(ies)
Technique and media:
Blueprints
Folder Number:
32-005T-069
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Reference Number: ARCH215313
Title: The Book of Houses
Dates of creation: 1946
Form: books
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People:
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Description:
includes a note and sketch on note paper (found on page 29)
Quantity / Object type:
1 book(s)
Folder Number:
32-005T-070
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Reference Number: ARCH255260
Title: Correspondence to and from Goldsmith, Mies, Ogden Hannaford, James ("Jim") Ferris, etc
Dates of creation: 1951-1957
Form: textual records
Catalogued items within this file 0
People:
Myron Goldsmith (correspondence writer)
Myron Goldsmith (recipient)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (correspondence writer)
James Ferris (correspondence writer)
Myron Goldsmith (archive creator)
Quantity / Object type:
1 file(s)
Extent and Medium:
0.01 l.m. of textual records
Technique and media:
Photocopies
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Credit line:
Myron Goldsmith fonds
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Ludwig Glaeser/
Gift of Ludwig Glaeser