Administrative Information
Provenance
- Gift in 1998, accessioned in 2001; Dorothy S. Goodman; 1998; 2001; (DLC/PP-2001:115) (ca. 20,000 items).
- Gift; Dorothy S. Goodman Revocable Trust; 2013; (DLC/PP-2013:169).
Processing History
The collection was originally inventoried by Gregory K. Hunt in the late 1990s before it came to the Library of Congress. Library staff including Ford Peatross, Brett Carnell, Greg Marcangelo, and Maricia Battle did preparatory work in 1998 and supplemented the Hunt inventory between 2004 and 2005. A preservation assessment was conducted by Library of Congress Conservator, Doris A. Hamburg, in 1998. In 2012, Bonnie Dziedzic and Mary Christ created a basic inventory of the collection. In 2017, Eric Peich, Bonnie Dziedzic, Emma Esperon, and Owen Ellis rehoused the slides and negatives. In 2019, Mari Nakahara and Vyta Baselice surveyed the publications and books associated with the collection and transferred those materials to the appropriate Library of Congress holdings or disposition. In 2021-2022, Emma Esperon, Gillian Mahoney, Samantha Ruggirello, and Erin Ebert rehoused and processed the collection. Various items outside of the Prints and Photographs collecting scope were transferred to the appropriate Library of Congress division or disposition.
Finding aid encoded by Emma Esperon in 2022. Scope and content note prepared in part by Ford Peatross, Director of the Center for Architecture, Design and Engineering at the Library of Congress in 2005.
Information about the projects are largely based on the drawings' title blocks and supplemented for clarity and consistency by Library staff with information gleaned from the related office files and pictures. Call numbers and project numbers are assigned by Library staff and do not correlate to Goodman's contract numbers. To provide the most accurate representation of the date of documents available for each project, the most recent date found on an item is used to provide the date range for a folder. This reflects the current version of the drawings, rather than the multitude of revision dates a drawing or document may reflect. Documents are occasionally interfiled with the Drawings Series and Pictures Series when integral to the surrounding materials. The documents can include notes, correspondence, typed documents, brochures, pamphlets, business cards, clippings, among others. When needed, Library staff created surrogate images for negatives without corresponding prints and deteriorating textual documents that had severe preservation risks.
Some of the color film in the Charles M. Goodman Architectural Archive exhibit signs of deterioration or color shifting. The digital images presented in the collection are a reasonable reproduction of the color tones of the original film. No restoration or correction was applied to improve the depicted scene. All negatives, transparencies, and slides have item-level call numbers. The call numbers for the Film Series are derived from Goodman and his photographers' original numbering sequence when possible. Some call numbers for the Film Series are preceded or proceeded with letters. Capital letters are part of Goodman's original numbering sequence, e.g., LC-CMG13-477-A. Lowercase letters are provided by Library staff to differentiate items with the same Goodman call number, e.g., LC-CMG05-1227a. If there was no original item marking, the entire call number was devised by Library staff and indicated with the suffix -x, e.g., LC-CMG05-1-x.
Transfers
- Documents including correspondence, contracts, bids, ledgers, and personal papers have been transferred to the Manuscript Division and can be identified as the Charles M. Goodman papers. More information about the division can be found at the Manuscript Division Homepage and Contact Page.
- A VHS tape has been transferred to the Moving Image Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. More information about the research center can be found at the their Homepage and Contact Page.
- Five maps depicting Washington, D.C. have been transferred to the Geography and Map Division. More information about the division can be found at the Geography and Map Division Homepage and Contact Page.
- Over 400 books and publications have been transferred to the Asian Division, European Division, General Collection, Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Science, Technology & Business Division, and the Serial and Government Publications Division or contributed to the Library's Surplus Book Program if materials were duplicative of existing holdings or out of scope. The majority of these materials are available through the Library of Congress General Collections Division and searchable through the Library's Online Catalog.
- A few items have been transferred to the National Building Museum including brochures, pamphlets, material samples, office supplies, desk items, and 3-D awards.
Related Material
Additional materials related to projects by Charles M. Goodman are described in our Online Catalog and searchable by call number or descriptive words:
- LOT 8030 (F): Model of port of aerial embarkation for the Pacific coast of the U.S., designed to be a community with facilities for housing, messing, recreation, and medical care. Also, chapel and library for south Atlantic U.S., and staff hostel for Africa. ca. 1942-45.
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). For more information see the Collection Profile
- HABS VA-586: Hollin Hills
- HABS VA-565: The Commons
- HABS DC-856: Southwest DC Urban Renewal
- HAER VA-51-B: Washington National Airport, Air Transport Command, Passenger Terminal/Operations Building, Thomas Avenue, Arlington, Arlington County, VA
- HAER VA-51-C: Washington National Airport, Air Transport Command, Portable Hangar, Thomas Avenue, Arlington, Arlington County, VA
- Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2016:057: River Park cooperative development in southwest, Washington, D.C., designed by Charles M. Goodman
Additional materials, such as the recording of John Peter's interview with Charles M. Goodman, are located in the Recorded Sound Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress. More information about the research center can be found at their Homepage and Contact Page.
Related Material at Other Repositories
While the Library of Congress is the principal repository of the drawings and photographs by Charles M. Goodman (1906-1992), other repositories hold portions of his work and related project materials. A few of these repositories include:
- George Mason University. Special Collections Research Center's Civic Association of Hollin Hills records, Collection Number: C0231
- Harvard University. Frances Loeb Library's Papers of Dan Kiley, Collection Identifier: DES-1995-0004-006399835 which also includes work about the Hollin Hills landscape
- National Building Museum's Archival Material of Charles M. Goodman
- National Building Museum's Robert C. Lautman Photography
Online Content
To see already digitized images from this collection, search our Online Catalog by call number or descriptive words.
Supplementary Archive
Supplementary archive includes a few brochures for designs by Mies Van Der Roche, Herman Miller, Charles and Ray Eames, Full Upright Position (FUP): The Modern Furniture Company, Bamboo and Rattan Works Inc., and Baskam and Chester Consulting Engineers, as well as fabric swatches and samples from Knoll Textiles and Herman Miller.
Alternate Formats
Negatives and transparencies are generally not served to researchers and are stored offsite. Due to safety regulations, nitrate negatives cannot be served to the public. A print of each image is available in the collection, filed into the PICT series by project information.
| If code begins with: | It is a: |
|---|---|
| LC-CMG03 | 4x5" color transparency 120mm color transparency (mounted) |
| LC-CMG04 | 4x5" color transparency in an 8x10" mount 5x7" color transparency 8x10" color transparency 10mm color transparency |
| LC-CMG05 | 35mm color transparency (not mounted) 120mm color transparency (not mounted) |
| LC-CMG12 | 5x7" black & white negative, safety film |
| LC-CMG13 | 4x5" black & white negative, safety film 120mm black & white negative, safety film |
| LC-CMG14 | 8x10" black & white negative, safety film 14x18" or smaller black & white negative, safety film |
| LC-CMG15 | 35mm black & white negative, safety film |
| LC-MISC-25 | 3.5x4.5" black & white negative, nitrate film 10mm black & white negative, nitrate film |
Slides are served to researchers and an inventory is available in the Contents List. Slides are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the Prints and Photographs Reading Room prior to visiting.
| If code begins with: | It is a: |
|---|---|
| LC-CMG05 | 35mm color slide (occasional black & white slide) |
| LC-CMG07 | 35mm color stereographic slide |
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Charles M. Goodman Architectural Archive, [reproduction number, e.g. LC-DIG-ppmsca-12345]