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1940-1960, undated
HGO-01-001-E-A-13 - Library & Archives Flat Files
GUSN-310549
The collection includes photographs, watercolor renderings, drawings, blueprints, and ephemera.
lamps (lighting devices)
sofas
chairs (furniture forms)
benches (furniture)
tables (support furniture)
desks
rooms
interior design
photographs
watercolors (paintings)
drawings (visual works)
blueprints (reprographic copies)
ephemera
approx. 180 items (11 folders) and 3 original portfolios
An electronic finding aid is available through Historic New Englands Collections Access Portal. A paper finding aid is available in the Library & Archives.
CC013
Stewart Ross James papers
2015
CC013
The collection is composed by a large group of photographs, watercolor renderings, drawings, blueprints and ephemera documenting the work of the designer Stewart Ross James between the 1940s and the 1960s.
Gift
Donation by Andrew Spindler-Roesle in 2015, given in memory of Alexander Roesle.
Birmingham (Jefferson county, Alabama)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Gambier (Knox county, Ohio)
Hartford (Hartford county, Connecticut)
New York City (New York state)
Princeton University (Mercer county, New Jersey) [university]
Toronto (Toronto Metropolitan Area, Ontario, Canada)
Winchester (Cheshire county, New Hampshire)
James, Stewart Ross, 1912-1997 (Designer)
photographs
watercolors (paintings)
drawings (visual works)
blueprints (reprographic copies)
ephemera
James, Stewart Ross, 1912-1997
Rummler, Alfred
Andrews, Alfred
R. B. O'Connor & W. H. Kilham, Jr
Hansen Lamp Company
Alco Art, Inc
Westcort
This collection is available for research.
There are no physical restrictions on this collection. There are no technical restrictions on this collection.
Collection
HGO-01-001-E-A-13 - Library & Archives Flat Files
Materials are entirely in English.
Item identification. Box #, folder #. Stewart Ross James papers (CC013). Historic New England, Library & Archives.
This collection was processed by May Driss, July 2015.
This finding aid is DACS-compliant.
Stewart Ross James was born October 15, 1912 in Toronto, Canada. He came to the United States in 1926 and lived during his high school years in Birmingham, Alabama. As he noted in his high school yearbook, his ambition in life was "to be a success in the field of Interior Decoration." By 1940, James was living in New York and working as an interior designer at 101 Park Avenue, Room 1405. He moved to Winchester, New Hampshire, where he continued his work as a designer. He collaborated with the New York architectural firm of O'Connor and Kilham on projects for Kenyon College in Ohio, in 1954 and for the Phoenix Insurance Company (1949) and the Trinity College, both in Hartford, Connecticut and for the Firestone Library in Princeton University (1949, 1953). He worked for the Cunard Line designing the interiors of its Boston office in 1952. He also designed lamps for the Hansen Lamp Company of New York in 1957. He worked for Alfred Andrews, Alco Art, Inc., Alfred Rummler, Inc., and Westcort.
Mihm, S. (2000, April). Resources, references and the back story behind the story. The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved from http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/specials/20000416mag-brightestfootnotes.html
The collection is arranged by subject, such as sofas and chairs.
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