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Collection Type

Manuscripts

Date

1925-1961, undated

GUSN

GUSN-325877

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Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)
Professional Papers, 1925-2012, undated
Manuscripts
Unidentified or unpublished manuscripts
(current record)

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Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)
- Professional Papers, 1925-2012, undated
  - Manuscripts
    - "Houses for Good Living"
    - "Better Houses for Budgeteers"
    - "Houses Have Funny Bones"
    - "Living on the Level"
    - "Tree Houses"
    - "More Houses for Good Living"
    - "Houses for Good Living"
    - "Confessions of a Cape Codder"
    - "Kathy Ryan's Colonial Primer"
    - "This Business of Architecture"
    - "Houses for Homemakers"
    - "Planning Your Home Wisely"
    - Unidentified or unpublished manuscripts (current record)

Description

Eight folders containing a variety of unpublished or unidentified writings relating to architecture by Royal Barry Wills. Four oversize folders of illustrations which were not included in any publication. Some illustrations are signed by Amelia Brooks Valtz, Anne Rosie, or Hugh Asher Stubbins Jr. One oversize folders of houseplans for use in unidentified publications. Four slides labeled New England Primer.

Details

Descriptive Terms

houses
architecture (discipline)
sketches
articles
essays
manuscripts for publication
renderings (drawings)

Physical Descrption

8 folders and five oversize folders

Collection Code

AR029

Collection Name

Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

Date of Acquisition

2013

Reference Code

AR029.02.01.13

Places

New England (United States) [general region]

Record Details

Originator

Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 (Author)

Material Type

sketches
articles
essays
manuscripts for publication
renderings (drawings)

Other People

Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962

Subjects

House
Architecture
New England

Description Level

File part

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