"This Business of Architecture"

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Collection Type

Manuscripts

Date

1940

GUSN

GUSN-330603

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Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)
Professional Papers, 1925-2012, undated
Manuscripts
"This Business of Architecture"
(current record)

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Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)
- Professional Papers, 1925-2012, undated
  - Manuscripts
    - "Houses for Good Living"
    - "Better Houses for Budgeteers"
    - "Houses Have Funny Bones"
    - "Living on the Level"
    - "Tree Houses"
    - "More Houses for Good Living"
    - "Houses for Good Living"
    - "Confessions of a Cape Codder"
    - "Kathy Ryan's Colonial Primer"
    - "This Business of Architecture" (current record)
    - "Houses for Homemakers"
    - "Planning Your Home Wisely"
    - Unidentified or unpublished manuscripts

Description

Five mounted illustrations for "This Business of Architecture" by Royal Barry Wills, published in 1941 by Reinhold Publishing Corporation. Illustration are in ink and have handwritten captions in pencil. None of the illustrations were included in the published book.

Details

Descriptive Terms

houses
architects
architectural firms
architecture (discipline)
sketches

Physical Description

1 folder

Collection Code

AR029

Collection Name

Royal Barry Wills Associates architectural collection, 1925-2013 (bulk 1920s-1980)

Date of Acquisition

2013

Reference Code

AR029.02.01.10

Image Dimensions

12 x 9 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Brookline (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Egypt (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Marblehead (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Melrose (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Milton (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Nashua (Hillsborough county, New Hampshire)
Needham (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Newton (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
North Attleboro (Bristol county, Massachusetts)
Providence (Providence county, Rhode Island)
Quincy (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Revere (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Waldoboro (Lincoln county, Maine)
Wellesley (Norfolk county, Massachusetts)
Weston (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Winchester (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Wills, Royal Barry, 1895-1962 (Author)
Haskell, Arthur C. (Arthur Cushman), 1890-1968 (Photographer)

Material Type

sketches

Subjects

House
Architecture

Description Level

File part

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