Recorded Sound Section Transcripts and Photographs from the John Peter Collection

Transcripts and Photographs from the John Peter Collection

Collection

Identifier: 2008647466

Scope and Content Note

Consists of interview transcripts and photographs used by John Peter in his books on 20th-century architects. Architects who are particularly well represented in these materials include Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, I.M. Pei, Eero Saarinen, Minoru Yamasaki, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

In addition to the transcripts and photographs, the larger John Peter Collection contains 164 ten-inch sound tape reels, 279 seven-inch sound tape reels, and 168 sound cassettes, along with 12 personal cassettes and 3 personal seven-inch reels.

Dates

Creation: circa 1951-1995, and undated

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English

Access and Restrictions

The Transcripts and Photographs from the John Peter Collection are open to research.

Copyright Status

Restrictions exist on copying, quoting, or publishing materials included in the collection. For additional information, contact a reference librarian in the Recorded Sound Research Center, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 20540-4690; (202) 707-7833.

Biographical Note

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John Peter (1917-1998) was the modern living editor at Look and Life magazines and a radio and television reporter for CBS and NBC. For many years he was head of his own publications consulting firm in New York City, with clients in the United States and Europe.

Tapes and photographs included in the John Peter Collection were used for his book, The Oral History of Modern Architecture: Interviews with the Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century , published in 1994. Photos were also used in his Masters of Modern Architecture , 1958. Other books by Peter include What Time Is It , 1954; Aluminum in Modern Architecture , 1956; Aluminum in Modern Architecture '58 ; Aluminum in Modern Architecture '60 ; and Design with Glass , 1964. His children's books include McCall's Giant Golden Make-it Book , 1953; McCall's Giant Golden Make-it Book , 1961; McCall's Golden Make-it Book , 1968; and My Clock Book , 1954.