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| Phone Numbers: |
| (Mary Daniels, Special Collections Librarian) | (617) 496-1300 |
| (Ines Zalduendo, Archivist) | (617) 384- 7821 |
| fax | (617) 496-5929 |
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| Address: | Frances Loeb Library, Special Collections Department
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Gund Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138 |
| Access Policy: |
| Open to all. |
Extended hours may be provided to out-of-town researchers.
A substantial amount of material is stored off-site; a preliminary reference interview is recommended for proposed use of special collections holdings. A number of collections are not yet inventoried. |
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| Extent of Collections: | c. 15,000 rare books
c. 1,000 printed books (Le Corbusier Research Collection)
c. 10,000 linear/cubic ft of original materials in varied formats. |
| Dates: | 1570 to present |
| Holdings Description: | Manuscript holdings include professional and/or personal papers of individual designers such as Edward Larrabee Barnes, Kenneth Conant, Charles Eliot, Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy, Dan Kiley, Le Corbusier, John Charles Olmsted, Eleanor Raymond, Josep Lluis Sert, Arthur and Sidney Shurcliff, and Hugh Stubbins.. Major subject areas include architecture, city planning, housing, and landscape architecture. Formats include correspondence, organizational records, scrapbooks, newsclippings, memorabilia and artifacts, photographs, maps, architectural plans, sketches, drawings, photographs, slides and printed ephemera. |
| History: | The Frances Loeb Library opened in 1972 upon the completion of George Gund Hall. Supported in part by a gift of John L. Loeb, S.B. 1924, LL.D. 1971 (hon), it is named in honor of his wife, Frances Lehman Loeb. The Special Collections Department was established in 1991. |
| Printed Guides & Catalogs: | Frances Loeb Library Users' Guide (annual); Catalog of the Library of the Graduate School of Design (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1968-79); Special Collections in the Frances Loeb Library: An Inventory (1986), Special Collections, A Guide (1996).
Printed inventories (generated by the departmental database) exist for numerous collections; a substantial number of collections have not yet been inventoried. |
| Online Guides & Catalogs: | The Department's web site includes brief descriptions of the individual collections; holdings of the Le Corbusier Research Collection and of the Rare Book Room are available through the HOLLIS Catalog. An increasing number of collection inventories is available in OASIS. |
| Contact for permission to publish requests: | Librarian, Special Collections Department |
| Reproduction services: |
| Photographic reproduction services. |
| Microfilming Services. |
| Copying facilities, with restrictions |
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| Items allowed in Reading Room: |
| Scanners |
| Tape Recorders |
| Cameras |
| Laptops |
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