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Title: Bill Schmidt collection of Frank Lloyd Wright printed material
Date (inclusive): 1883-1987
Number: 850689
Creator/Collector:
Schmidt, Bill (Walter)
Physical Description:
15.0 linear feet
(45 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
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 (also known as Walter Schmidt), was a collector of Frank Lloyd Wright bibliographic and archival material.
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Bill Schmidt collection of Frank Lloyd Wright printed material, ca 1883-1987, Research Library, The Getty Research Insititute,
Accession no. 850689.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa850689
The Getty acquired this collection in 1985.
J. Gibbs processed the collection and wrote the finding aid in 2000.
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.
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
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Hollyhock House (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Larkin Building (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Paul R. Hanna House (Stanford, Calif.)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Taliesin Fellowship
Teikoku Hoteru
Unitarian Universalist Church in Oak Park (Oak Park, Ill.)
Wayfarers Chapel (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.)
Architects
Architects--United States
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Architecture, Modern--20th century
Architecture--Periodicals
Architecture--United States
Architecture--United States--20th century
Photographic prints--United States--20th century
Postcards--United States--20th century
Usonian houses
Usonian houses--California--Stanford
Usonian houses--Unites States
Ephemera
Ephemera--20th century
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Postcards
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Hanna, Jean Shuman
Hanna, Paul Robert, 1902-
Harris, Harwell Hamilton, 1903-1990
Penfield, Louis A., 1918-2002
Schmidt, Bill (Walter)
Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924
Taliesin Fellowship