67 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Design.

  1. Florence Klotz costume designs, 1971-1985

    670 items. 19 containers. 11.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Florence Klotz was an American costume designer best known for her work on Broadway musical collaborations with composer Stephen Sondheim and director Harold (Hal) Prince, including Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), and Pacific Overtures (1976). The collection contains finished costume designs, sketches, fabric samples, and other materials for five musicals and one film adaptation.

  2. Miles White costume designs, 1942-1977

    approximately 150 items. 8 containers. 7.0 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Miles White was an American scenic and costume designer best known for his work on Oklahoma! (1943), Carousel (1945), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949), Bye Bye Birdie (1960), and other Broadway musicals and stage productions. The collection consists mostly of finished designs and sketches, some of which include fabric samples and other related materials.

  3. Paul F. Stiga collection of stage and costume design, 1821-2017

    approximately 4,000 items. 236 boxes. 134.5 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Paul Freeman Stiga (1936-2019) was a collector of set and costume designs created for stage productions, television, and film. The Paul F. Stiga Collection of Stage and Costume Design consists of approximately 2,600 design renderings that date between 1821 and 2017 and document more than 1,300 ballets, motion pictures, plays, operas, operettas, revues, and television shows. These renderings encompass the work of more than 900 designers, including Georg II, Duke of Sachsen-Meiningen, Robert Edmond Jones, Jo Mielziner, Léon Bakst, Walter Plunkett, Irene Sharaff, and Edith Head. Stiga maintained informational files on numerous designers that include biographical materials, clippings, and exhibition catalogs. The collection also contains 85 caricatures by Sam Norkin and approximately 50 prints and posters.

  4. Walter Hamady and The Perishable Press collection, 1895-2019

    ca. 20,040 items. 129 containers. 161 linear feet. -- Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Walter Hamady was an artist, professor, poet and printer, who ran the Perishable Press, Limited for over forty years. The collection includes correspondence, planning documents, original art, photographs, printing plates, Hamady’s personal library, reference materials, ephemera and realia.

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  5. Charles M. Goodman papers, 1932-2003

    8,500 items. 24 containers plus 4 oversize. 12.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Architect. Project files, clippings and publications, correspondence, office files, financial material, writings, and other papers related to Goodman's career as a commercial and residential architect, primarily in the Washington, D.C., area, during the middle part of the twentieth century.

  6. Raymond Loewy papers, 1929-1988

    55,000 items. 195 containers plus 117 oversize. 109 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Industrial designer. Correspondence; administrative, client, and project files; and financial and legal papers relating to Loewy's work as an industrial designer and documenting the growth of his company from a small firm to a complex system of international corporations and subsidiaries concerned with architecture, corporate image coordination, exhibitions, marketing, packaging, product design, and other aspects of industrial design.

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  7. Frederick Law Olmsted papers, 1777-1952

    24,000 items. 73 containers plus 1 oversize. 23 linear feet. 60 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Landscape architect. Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, drafts of articles and books, speeches and lectures, biographical and genealogical data, business papers, scrapbooks, maps, drawings, and other papers encompassing Olmsted's career and private life. The papers focus on Olmsted's career as a landscape architect, specifically as a designer of parks and the grounds of private estates and public buildings and as a city and regional planner.

  8. L'Aerophile collection, 1876-1949

    152 boxes. 15,000 items. -- Science Section, Researcher Engagement and General Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Correspondence, blueprints and manufactures information for early French and foreign aircraft and dirigibles, reports of accidents involving flyers and balloonists, World War I aerial photographs and intelligence reports, a series of French cartoons, drawings, graphs, charts, diagrams of equipment, maps, newspapers, printed material, and photographs. The materials in the collection were evidently assembled by staff of the magazine L’Aerophile which was published by Georges Besançon in collaboration with Union Aérophile de France. Subjects include aeronautics chiefly in Europe and the U.S., aeronautics corporations, air shows, aviators, balloons, bombs and missiles, commercial airlines, dirigibles, gliders, hydroplanes, medical aviation, military aeronautics, model aircraft, parachutes, propellers, record flights, and research and testing of aircraft. Individuals represented include Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold, Georges Besançon, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and William "Billy" Mitchell.

  9. Tissandier collection on the history of aeronautics, 1539-1929

    8,000 items. 27 containers plus 17 oversize. 14 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Collection of items gathered by Gaston Tissandier, an aeronaut and scientist, with additions by his brother, Albert Tissandier, an artist and aeronaut, and his son, Paul Tissandier, also an aeronaut. Includes the collection of J. F. Dupuis-Delcourt, an airship builder, brought together prior to 1860 and later purchased by Gaston Tissandier. Mostly in French, the collection pertains primarily to balloon flights of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but also includes material concerning early heavier-than-air flight and the aeronautical career of Gaston and Albert Tissandier as well as art work of Albert Tissandier.

  10. Canal Zone Library-Museum Panama Collection, 1804-1977

    12,700 items. 38 containers plus 18 oversize. 18.4 linear feet. 8 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Canal Zone Library-Museum in Balboa Heights. Correspondence, diaries, memoirs, financial and legal papers, technical drawings of canal plans, photoprints, and other papers collected by the library-museum concerning the planning and construction of the Panama Canal and business and cultural aspects of the Canal Zone.

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