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Fonds
Myron Goldsmith fonds
AP032
Synopsis:
The Myron Goldsmith fonds consists primarily of 30.4 metres of textual documents, including notebooks, research and reading notes, travel journals, documentation files, correspondence, sketchbooks and personal and office papers. There are also 2,800 original drawings and prints, 10,000 photographs and slides, and 5 architectural models. The material ranges in date from c.1933 to 1996. In shedding light on Goldsmith's student years and working career, the fonds' rich collection of documents also provides material on activities in the architectural profession, architectural education, and architectural and engineering theory and building techniques through the 1940s to the 1990s.
1933-1996
Myron Goldsmith fonds
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AP032
Synopsis:
The Myron Goldsmith fonds consists primarily of 30.4 metres of textual documents, including notebooks, research and reading notes, travel journals, documentation files, correspondence, sketchbooks and personal and office papers. There are also 2,800 original drawings and prints, 10,000 photographs and slides, and 5 architectural models. The material ranges in date from c.1933 to 1996. In shedding light on Goldsmith's student years and working career, the fonds' rich collection of documents also provides material on activities in the architectural profession, architectural education, and architectural and engineering theory and building techniques through the 1940s to the 1990s.
archives
Level of archival description:
Fonds
1933-1996
Sub-series
Drawings and Notes
AP032.S1.SS1.D3.SD3
Description:
Sketches and drawings of buildings, scenes, farms, railways, silos, bridges, army vehicles, furniture. Some of these drawings may be related to the material listed as Personal Sketches and Notes, c.1942-1943.
[ca. 1942-1946]
Drawings and Notes
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AP032.S1.SS1.D3.SD3
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Sketches and drawings of buildings, scenes, farms, railways, silos, bridges, army vehicles, furniture. Some of these drawings may be related to the material listed as Personal Sketches and Notes, c.1942-1943.
Sub-file 3
[ca. 1942-1946]
drawings
Quantity:
10 presentation drawing(s)
DR1995:0185:265-274
Description:
plan, sections, elevations of aviary, possibly for publication, sections at bridge showing possible views, landscaping plan, axonometric drawing of aviary
Plan, sections, elevations of aviary, possibly for publication
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DR1995:0185:265-274
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plan, sections, elevations of aviary, possibly for publication, sections at bridge showing possible views, landscaping plan, axonometric drawing of aviary
drawings
Quantity:
10 presentation drawing(s)
photographs
ARCH193303
Description:
Lauches, girders (concrete pre-stress), formwork, cofferdams (41 piers on bridge), concreting scow, girder going into place, piers, pouring concrete.
entre août et octobre 1963
Album de photographies relatives au pont de l'Île-aux-Tourtes, Senneville, Québec
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ARCH193303
Description:
Lauches, girders (concrete pre-stress), formwork, cofferdams (41 piers on bridge), concreting scow, girder going into place, piers, pouring concrete.
photographs
entre août et octobre 1963
Sub-series
AP032.S1.SS4.D6
Description:
Files ARCH219102-ARCH219120 are documents relating to various personal and professional activities (c.1961-1977). Includes notebooks, travel journals, correspondence, clippings, Oakland Bay Bridge booklet, Federal Building at N.Y. World's Fair brochure, F.L. Wright talk (1930), notes and sketches, photographs of bridges and rural buildings, postcards, periodicals, ephemera. Files ARCH254834-ARCH254880 are papers relating to personal business interests such as real estate, investments, taxes, as well as institutions and associations like the Chicago Arts Club, the AIA, the Illinois Institute of Technology, MOMA and the Guggenheim Museum. Documents include Goldsmith's entry in Who's Who, correspondence, medical reports, memos and notes, brochures and booklets on artists and exhibitions, periodicals and clippings. Architectural material includes an address by N.A. Owings, Presidential Design Awards 1984, T.Y. Lin, and documents concerning the call for proposals for the San Francisco main library, and a project for Athens College in Greece.
1964-1991
Personal and Business Documents
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AP032.S1.SS4.D6
Description:
Files ARCH219102-ARCH219120 are documents relating to various personal and professional activities (c.1961-1977). Includes notebooks, travel journals, correspondence, clippings, Oakland Bay Bridge booklet, Federal Building at N.Y. World's Fair brochure, F.L. Wright talk (1930), notes and sketches, photographs of bridges and rural buildings, postcards, periodicals, ephemera. Files ARCH254834-ARCH254880 are papers relating to personal business interests such as real estate, investments, taxes, as well as institutions and associations like the Chicago Arts Club, the AIA, the Illinois Institute of Technology, MOMA and the Guggenheim Museum. Documents include Goldsmith's entry in Who's Who, correspondence, medical reports, memos and notes, brochures and booklets on artists and exhibitions, periodicals and clippings. Architectural material includes an address by N.A. Owings, Presidential Design Awards 1984, T.Y. Lin, and documents concerning the call for proposals for the San Francisco main library, and a project for Athens College in Greece.
File 6
1964-1991
photographs
PH1981:0620:018
Description:
- Oura-machi is visible in the foreground. Deshima is visible at centre left. The site of the Ohashi Bridge, which was built after this photograph was taken, is visible at centre, adjacent to Deshima and just in front of a small arch bridge. - A hand-written table of contents accompanies album PH1981:0620:001-081.
architecture, topographic
1867-1868
View of the harbour and the foreign settlements of Oura-machi and Deshima, Nagasaki, Japan
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PH1981:0620:018
Description:
- Oura-machi is visible in the foreground. Deshima is visible at centre left. The site of the Ohashi Bridge, which was built after this photograph was taken, is visible at centre, adjacent to Deshima and just in front of a small arch bridge. - A hand-written table of contents accompanies album PH1981:0620:001-081.
photographs
1867-1868
architecture, topographic
textual records
ARCH259097
Description:
Correspondance avec Dominion Bridge Company, les sœurs de la Congrégation de Notre-Dame, relatifs à l'acceptation de la soumission, et quatre dessins d'atelier.
1920
Correspondance et dessins d'atelier
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ARCH259097
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Correspondance avec Dominion Bridge Company, les sœurs de la Congrégation de Notre-Dame, relatifs à l'acceptation de la soumission, et quatre dessins d'atelier.
textual records
1920
Project
Bowring Park
AP027.S1.D6
Description:
Planning and detailed design of a city park in St. John's, Nfld. Extension of existing park which the Canadian National Railway and Trans-Canada highway intersect at various points. Design of two bridges with Ove Arup Partners.
urban planning
1958-1965
Bowring Park
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AP027.S1.D6
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Planning and detailed design of a city park in St. John's, Nfld. Extension of existing park which the Canadian National Railway and Trans-Canada highway intersect at various points. Design of two bridges with Ove Arup Partners.
File 6
1958-1965
urban planning
drawings
Quantity:
24 working drawing(s)
DR1995:0185:215-238
Description:
consultant drawings showing structural details for joint castings, pump house, pools, bridge, flower boxes, waterfall, mesh panels, including plans, elevations, and sections
Consultant drawings showing structural details for joint castings
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DR1995:0185:215-238
Description:
consultant drawings showing structural details for joint castings, pump house, pools, bridge, flower boxes, waterfall, mesh panels, including plans, elevations, and sections
drawings
Quantity:
24 working drawing(s)
drawings
Quantity:
120 File
ARCH259896
Description:
shop drawings, drawing lists, product information, sketches of details, photos of damage to Ranee Ave. Bridge, plans and details of Spadina Road extension
1975-1976
Shop drawings, drawing lists, product information, sketches, photos, plans and details
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ARCH259896
Description:
shop drawings, drawing lists, product information, sketches of details, photos of damage to Ranee Ave. Bridge, plans and details of Spadina Road extension
drawings
Quantity:
120 File
1975-1976