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    Image for Series 10.1: Photographs of Breuer and Mrs. Breuer, 1928-1979
    From Series 10.1: Photographs of Breuer and Mrs. Breuer, 1928-1979

    Series 10: Photographs, 1928-1979 (Boxes 34, 41-42; Reel 5738; 0.3 linear feet)

    This series contains photographs of Breuer and his family and colleagues. Three photograph albums are of dozens of architectural projects. Researchers will find photographs of Breuer interacting with his colleagues including Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, and Walter Gropius.

    The series is organized into five chronologically arranged subseries.

    10.1: Photographs of Breuer and Mrs. Breuer, 1928-1979

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    5738 450-493 Portrait photographs of Breuer, including two by Tamás Breuer, 1928-1979 (3 folders)
    5738 494 Passport Photograph of Mrs. Breuer, 1966

    10.2: Photographs of Breuer with Friends and Colleagues, 1938-1978

    Photographs 1938-circa 1940 include Breuer with friends in Concord, Massachusetts, 1938; Herbert Bayer, Marian Willard, Ise Gropius, Ati Gropius in Breuer House, Lincoln, Massachusetts, circa 1940; Constance Breuer, Dottie Noyes, and Christopher Tunnan; Breuer with Mercedes Matter, Konrad Wachsmann, and Alexander Calder; and Breuer with Joan McVitty, Edward Larrabee Barnes, Mary Barnes, and Alexander Calder in Breuer House I, New Canaan, Connecticut.

    Photographs 1955-1958 include Breuer with Matta at UNESCO cocktail party, 1957; Breuer with Walter Gropius in Paris for UNESCO. Photographs 1958-1961 include Breuer with George Salle in Paris, 1958; Breuer with Eduardo Catalano in Argentina; Breuer on a jury with unidentified South American colleagues, on a panel with unidentified colleagues and in Philip Johnson's house, 1961.

    Photographs 1961-1978 include Breuer with Eric Boissonnas and Flaine Architects at Hunter College, 1961; at a reception with Dino Gavina in Milan, 1962; Breuer on a panel at College of Architecture and Design, University of Michigan, with Chet LaMore, David Reider, Robert Iglehart, and William Muschenheim, 1963; Birthday party [80th birthday of Walter Gropius?], 1963; Breuer on jury for R. S. Reynolds Memorial Award, 1965, with William Stephen Allen, George Harrell, Vernon DeMars, and Mario Pani; Breuer with Yuichiro Kojiro at Breuer House II in New Canaan, Connecticut, 1966; Breuer receiving the George Washington Award at American Hungarian Studies Foundation ceremony, Plaza Hotel, New York, 1967.

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    5738 496-501 Photographs of Breuer with Friends and Colleagues, circa 1938-circa 1940
    5738 502-511 Photographs of Breuer with Friends and Colleagues, 1955-1958
    5738 512-543 Photographs of Breuer with Friends and Colleagues, 1958-1961
    5738 544-575 Photographs of Breuer with Friends and Colleagues, 1961-1978

    10.3: Photograph Albums of Architectural Projects, 1947-1970

    10.3.1: Album I, 1947-1956, undated

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    5738 578-584 Thompson House, 1947
    5738 585-589 Kniffin House, 1948
    5738 590-594 Vassar College Dormitory, 1949
    5738 595-599 Clark House, 1949
    5738 600-604 Pack House, 1950
    5738 605-611 Wolfson Trailer House, 1950
    5738 612-614 Hanson House, 1950
    5738 615-620 Rufus Stillman House I, 1950
    5738 621-631 Sarah Lawrence College, 1951
    5738 632-640 Breuer House II, 1951
    5738 641-645 Caesar House, 1951
    5738 646-652 Neumann House, 1952
    5738 653-655 St. John's Abbey and University, 1953
    5738 656-660 Litchfield Schools, model, 1953
    5738 661-665 Torrington Factory, Canada, 1953
    5738 666-668 Princeton University Housing, Institute for Advanced Study, model, 1954
    5738 669-675 Grieco House, 1954
    5738 676-678 Annunciation Priory, Convent, model, and New London Station, 1954-1955
    5738 679-685 Starkey House, 1954
    5738 686-690 St. John's Abbey, Monastery Wing, undated
    5738 691-697 Gagarin House I, undated
    5738 698-706 Litchfield High School, 1953
    5738 707-709 Hunter College Library, model, 1955
    5738 710-740 De Bijenkorf Department Store (23 photographs are by Robert Doisneau), 1953
    5738 741-745 Institute for Advanced Study, Members' Housing Project, undated
    5738 746-748 St. John's Abbey Church and Bell Tower, model, 1956
    5738 749-755 New Haven Railroad trains, undated
    5738 756-760 Torrington Manufacturing Company, California, undated
    5738 761-763 Laaff House, undated
    5738 764-770 New York University, Bronx Campus, undated
    5738 771-779 St. John's Abbey, undated
    5738 780-784 New York University, Bronx Campus, undated
    5738 785-787 Scarves by Vera, Los Angeles, undated
    5738 788-794 Staehelin House, undated

    10.3.2: Album II, 1953-1970

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    5738 796-798 Fairview Heights Housing, 1961-1964
    5738 799-801 Torrington Manufacturing Plant, Nivelles, Belgium, 1963-1964
    5738 802-803 Scarves by Vera, 417 Fifth Avenue (4 photographs are by André Kertész), 1965
    5738 804-806 Torrington Administration Building, Torrington, Connecticut
    5738 807-819 Whitney Museum of American Art, 1963-1966
    5738 820-822 Rufus Stillman House II, 1965
    5738 823-824 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, 1966
    5738 825-831 St. Francis de Sales Church (one photograph is by Marcel Breuer), 1961-1967
    5738 832-848 St. John's Abbey and University, 1953-1968
    5738 849-855 Housing and Urban Development Headquarters Building, 1963-1968
    5738 856-862 ZUP Project, 1963-1967
    5738 863-866 Geller House II, 1959-1969
    5738 867-874 New York University, Bronx Campus, Technology Building II, 1967-1969
    5738 875-877 University of Massachusetts Campus Center and Parking Garage, 1965-1970
    5738 878-883 Mary College, 1965-1968
    5738 884-888 Flaine Ski Resort Town, 1969
    5738 889-891 Armstrong Rubber Company, 1965-1970
    5738 892-896 IBM, Boca Raton, Florida, 1967-1970
    5738 897-900 Yale University, 1965-1970
    5738 901-906 Laboratoires Sarget, undated

    10.3.3: Album III, 1965-1970

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    5738 908-919 Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967-1970
    5738 920-929 Cleveland Trust Company, undated
    5738 930-934 University of Massachusetts Campus Center and Parking Garage, 1965-1969
    5738 935-939 Baldegg Convent, undated
    5738 940-1159 Scrapbook of Printed Material

    10.4: Miscellaneous Photographs, 1961, undated

    Reel Frames (digitized from microfilm)
    5738 1160-1163 Photo-collage of an unidentified Hispanic festival; photographs of architectural details in Greece, 1961, undated

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