House Committee
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Architectural League of New York
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- Architectural League of New York records
- Architectural League of New York records / Series 2: Committee Records
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund
- Date
- 1889-1969
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.archleag, Subseries 2.3
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Architectural League of New York records, 1880s-1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Scope and Contents note
- The House Committee managed the League building, which included maintenance of the building, management of the common areas such as the restaurant and bar, long-term rental of rooms to other organizations and individual tenants, and managing personnel. Materials include correspondence, inventories, meeting minutes, committee chairmen's files, receipts, personnel records, memoranda, vendors and utilities records, equipment records, and scattered printed materials. Found is the original 1889 agreement between the Architectural League, the Art Students League, and the Society of American Artists to build the American Fine Arts Society building. The bulk of the material is from the 1940s to the mid-1960s. Folders are arranged alphabetically by folder title.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original papers requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503511387611-1503511387700-3
- Metadata Usage
- CC0