Photographs and Illustrations for the Biography
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Isaacs, Reginald R., 1911-
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content: Reginald R. Isaacs papers
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content: Reginald R. Isaacs papers / Series 13: Walter Gropius Biography
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1800s-1983, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.isaaregi, Subseries 13.6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: The photographs and illustrations are arranged in rough chronological order according to the biography. An overview of the contents of each folder is provided in the container listing. Glass plate negatives are housed separately and closed to researchers.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This subseries contains the photographs and illustrations used in the published version of the biography Walter Gropius der Mensch und sein Werk. Walter Gropius biography, totaling 3 linear feet and including original and copy prints. At the beginning of the series are 3 folders containing a chart with the captions and credits for the materials. This, in concjunction with identification information on the materials themselves, serve as an excellent guide to the items.

Some of the prints found here were taken by amateur photographers and belonged to Walter and Ise Gropius and others while most were taken by professionals. Isaacs' sons, Mark and Henry, also produced many images to aid in their fathers' research of Walter Gropius' building designs.

The following Gropius family members, and other significant individuals, are depicted in photographs found throughout the subseries and particularly at the beginning: Walther Gropius (1848-1911): father

Auguste Pauline Manon Scharnweber (1855-1933): mother

Manon Gropius: sister

Carl Ludwig Adolf Gropius (1819-1871): paternal grandfather

Louise Honig Gropius (1821-1906): paternal grandmother

Karl August Scharnweber: maternal grandfather

Willy, Felix, and Erich Gropius: uncles

Felicitas, Heidi, Conrad, and Werner: cousins

(Johann) Carl Christian (1781-1854): great grandfather 

Wilhelm Ernst Gropius: great uncle

Martin Karl Philipp Gropius (1824-1880): great uncle

Georg Ludwig Gropius (1726-1784): great-great grandfather

Dorothea Gropius (1739-1816): great-great grandmother

Gabain, George (1763-1826) and Caroline (1769-1831): founders of the family silkworks