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INVENTORY OF THE BILL SCHMIDT FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COLLECTION, 1883-1987
850689
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Title: Bill Schmidt Frank Lloyd Wright collection
Dates: 1883-1987
Collection Number: 850689
Collector:
Schmidt, Bill (Walter)
Extent:
15 linear ft.
(45 boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
Abstract:
Postcards, photographs, museum catalogs, and other printed ephemera assembled by Schmidt show many of Wright’s most famous
buildings and note the relationship of his work to that of other architects. The bulk of the collection comprises journals
and other printed materials describing Wright, his work, or his ideas; some of the printed ephemera is published by the Taliesin
Fellowship. All but two of the publications are listed in R. L. Sweeney's
Frank Lloyd Wright: An Annotated Bibliography and are arranged by Sweeney number. The collection also includes copies of letters, plans, and some manuscript material.
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Bill Schmidt. Frank Lloyd Wright Collection, ca 1883-1987, Research Library, The Getty Research Insititute, Accession no.
850689.
The Getty acquired this collection in 1985.
J. Gibbs processed the collection and wrote the finding aid in 2000.
Bill Schmidt (also known as Walter Schmidt), was a collector of Frank Lloyd Wright bibliographic and archival material.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains postcards, printed ephemera and single issues of journals containing information about Frank Lloyd
Wright and his designs. Most of the items are single issues of architectural or home design magazines, and all but two of
the publications are listed in R. L. Sweeney's Frank Lloyd Wright: an annotated bibliography. The publications are arranged
by Sweeney number.
Included in the collection are publications and printed ephemera from the Taliesan Fellowship (ca. 1930s-1970s), and a fine
printed booklet of Harwell Hamilton Harris's Architecture as art, 1969. Other printed ephemera, including postcards, relate
to Wright buildings, such as Unity Church, the Larkin building, the Imperial Hotel (Teikoku Hoteru), or to conferences, exhibitions,
other events or publications. A few of the images in the collection refer to Wright's influence on graphic and architectural
design, and his sources. One file of papers (ca. 70 items) contains plans, correspondence, photographs and manuscript material
(most photocopies) from Louis Penfield about the Penfield houses (#1 and #2) designed by Wright in 1952. A notebook holds
ca. 15 photocopied letters from Wright to various people; a few letters are from associates of Wright, and one is from Louis
Sullivan (1909?) about the drawings for the Bradley house.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in two series:
Series I. Postcards, photographs and ephemera, 1883-1987
Series II. Publications about F. L. Wright, 1900-1981
Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Wright, Lloyd, 1890-1978
Larkin Building (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Taliesin Fellowship
Teikoku Hoteru
Unitarian Universalist Church (Oak Park, Ill.)
Paul R. Hanna House (Stanford, Calif.)
Hollyhock house (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Wayfarer's Chapel
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Architecture, Modern—20th century
Architecture—United States
Architecture—United States—20th century
Architecture—Periodicals
Architects
Architects—United States
Ephemera
Epemera—20th century
Photographic prints
Photographic prints—United States—20th century
Photographs, Original
Postcards
Postcards—United States—20th century
Usonian houses
Usonian houses—California—Stanford
Usonian houses—Unites States
Hanna, Paul Robert, 1902-
Hanna, Jean Shuman
Schmidt, Bill (Walter)
Harris, Harwell Hamilton, 1903-
Penfield, Louis A., 1918-2000
Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1890-1924
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Taliesin Fellowship