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2 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Real estate developers.

  1. Anne Locke Bixby Chamberlin family papers, 1793-1924

    500 items. 3 containers. 1 linear foot. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Correspondence, ephemera, and photographs documenting Anne Locke Bixby Chamberlin, her family, and her social history stretching from Boston, Massachusetts, to Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California. Family members represented include father, California land magnate Llewellyn Bixby; sister, writer and feminist Sarah Bixby Smith; and husband, Theodore Chamberlin.

  2. Roger L. Stevens papers, 1863-2002

    approximately 192,000 items. 436 containers. 30 mapcase folders. 234 linear feet. -- Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Summary:

    Roger Lacey Stevens (1910-1998) was an American theatrical producer and financial backer with more than 200 shows to his credit; an arts administrator who served as the founding chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the first chair of both the National Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts; and founder, executive officer, and shareholder of numerous commercial and residential real estate businesses that owned iconic buildings including the Empire State Building and Belleview Biltmore Hotel and pioneered the development of several shopping malls. The collection, which documents all aspects of Stevens's life and career, contains awards and certificates; clippings; correspondence; daily calendars, schedules and telephone logs; financial records; invitations; photographs; realia; scrapbooks; and speeches and writings. Materials specific to his arts administration and theatrical careers include actor and crew contracts; audition and casting materials; box office reports, posters, production stills, programs, and publicity material; rehearsal schedules; reviews; and scripts. Materials specific to his real estate work include construction plans, purchase contracts and agreements, incorporation and dissolution papers, and leases.