Architecture Exhibition records (23.4.4)

Series I. Administrative files
The administrative files, 1939-1943, 1952, include correspondence between Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr. and Museum Assistant Barbara Wriston regarding the 1939 Rhode Island Architecture exhibition, essays, loan correspondence between Wriston and colleges and universities, catalogues and correspondence for architecture exhibitions loaned to RISD, and publications including catalogues for "Ante Bellum Houses of the Mississippi Valley" and Exhibition of Early Ohio Valley Architecture, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio." The file for Architectural Designs - MIT, 1940-1941, includes four photographs of I. M. Pei's "Standardized Propaganda Unit."

Material collected by Lydia Bond Powel, Education Director, 1943-1944, includes postcards and brochures with an architectural theme and a copy of "Sketch of the Life of George Berkeley - Bishop of Cloyne," annotated by members of her family. The collection contains a copy of "Colonial Williamsburg: The First Twenty-five Years," 1952.

Series II. Photographs
A set of black and white photographs mounted on 8x11 paper with typed labels identifying each photograph. The photographs are duplicates of the exhibition photograph panels (series III). The photographs are arranged chronologically by century.

Series III. Exhibition Photograph panels
The series contains 226 large format black and white photograph panels (30x40 and 24x30 inches) and seven wall label panels created for the Rhode Island Architecture exhibition, 1939. Each photograph is mounted on a panel with a grommet in each upper corner. The photographs are numbered and labeled for identification. The panels were rebound in 1953. There is a small collection of architectural photograph panels created for subsequent exhibitions and one wall label panel for an Egyptian architecture exhibition.

The RISD Archives maintains a database of all photograph panels.

Series IV. Halftone Copper Printing Blocks
The collection contains fifty of eighty-one halftone copper printing blocks created by Thomas H. Devlin to print the exhibition catalogue photographs for "Rhode Island Architecture" published by the Rhode Island Museum Press in 1939. Most of the blocks are 11.75 x 9 inches (30 x 22 cm.). Devlin taught Textile Printing at RISD, 1933-1943, and worked as a photo engraver. There are three small blocks of unknown purpose. The block numbers correspond to the catalogue's numbered photographs.