Architects
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: A small category of collections documenting the work of women architects in the mid to late 20th century.
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Alice Recknagel Ireys papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00303
Overview
Landscape architect, Instructor. Papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, financial records, notes, plant lists, sketches, renderings, plans, photographs, drafts and typescripts of writings, and handouts prepared for teaching. The materials are primarily related to Ireys' professional life. The main subject of her papers is the approximately 800 gardens she designed over her sixty-five year career, a period of transition in the field of landscape architecture from the large...
Dates:
1885-2001; Majority of material found within 1950-2000
Annette Hoyt Flanders papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00501
Overview
Landscape architect. Collection consists of files compiled by Patricia L. Filzen in preparation for writing her M.A. thesis on landscape architecture (1988, University of Wisconsin-Madison). While the files pertain primarily to Annette Hoyt Flanders, there are materials about other practitioners in the field, as well. Glass slides of Flanders' work are also included.
Dates:
1923-1991
Art collection
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00429
Overview
Documents women's participation in, and contributions to, the broad field of art. Contains primarily printed material, plus, correspondence, interviews, notes, photographs, postcards, posters, speeches, and typescripts. The collection documents the lives and work of individual designers, landscape architects, women in the fine arts, as well as the status of women in the arts and organizations of feminist artists.
Dates:
1857-1988; Majority of material found within 1920-1980
Leslie Nelson Savage Mahoney papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00229
Overview
Architectural historian and interior decorator. The papers provide insight into the life a southern woman and a professional single mother. Her writings include material related to interior decorating; poetry; travel diaries; an unpublished biography of her father; and photographs of mostly family mambers. Correspondents include photographer, Frances Benjamin Johnston and lawyer and House of Representatives member, Lucy Sommerville Howorth.
Dates:
1890-1986; Majority of material found within 1942-1970
Phyllis Birkby papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00283
Overview
Architect; film maker; lesbian activist; feminist; founder, Women's School of Planning and Architecture; and professor. The Birkby papers include her own documentation of women's activities through various forms of documentation. Materials include films, photographs, journals, writings, and correspondence with several notable feminists.
Dates:
1932-1994; Majority of material found within 1960-1994
Women's School of Planning and Architecture records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00306
Overview
Educational program and feminist collective. The Women's School of Planning and Architecture Records provides a detailed account of the successes and struggles of an experimental, non-hierarchical educational institution founded at the height of the 1970s women's movement. Records document the School's sessions on feminist architectural planning and design. There is also rich documentation of the founding, planning, and operation of the School. Materials include correspondence; histories;...
Dates:
1974 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1974-81
- Smith College Special Collections
- Young Library, 4 Tyler Drive
- Northampton, Massachusetts, 01063
- specialcollections@smith.edu
- 413-585-2970
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