Raymond Mathewson Hood papers
name: label: Creator
content: Hood, Raymond Mathewson, 1881-1934
label: Names
content: McGraw-Hill building (New York, N.Y.) -- Pictorial works
label: Names
content: Scottish Rite Masonic Temple (Scranton, Pa.) -- Pictorial works
label: Names
content: Tribune Tower (Chicago, Ill.) -- Pictorial works
topic: label: Occupation
content: Architects -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Architecture, Modern -- 20th century
label: Topic
content: Architecture -- Competitions
label: Topic
content: Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Designs and plans
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reel 64 donated 1971 by Raymond Hood, Jr., Richard Hood, and Verna (Trientje) Hood Reed via Walter H. Kilham, Jr., an architect who used the material in his book on Hood. Material on reel reel 795 donated 1974 by Reed, via Kilham.
creator: label: Creator
content: Hood, Raymond Mathewson, 1881-1934
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Architect; New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.1 Linear Feet ((microfilmed on 2 reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1903-1931
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hoodraym
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Aquatints
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Architectural drawings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 64 and 795 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Chicago Tribune drawings: Slides and 4x5 b&w negatives available at Washington office.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Aquatints
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Architectural drawings
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: List of works of art with dimensions for each available at the Archives of American Art's Washington, D.C. office collection file.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence and drawings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 64: Letters to Henry Boehm (architect), from Europe and America recounting travel and other experiences, Hood's work and his studies, mutual friends; and personal matters.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 795: 48 drawings in pencil, charcoal, chalk, ink, or ink wash and 5 photographs of drawings (61.8 x 68 cm., or smaller). Among them are 8 drawings of architecture and the human figure done while Hood was at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1907-1911; 32 of the Chicago Tribune Tower many of which were submitted in competition (including 2 reproductions); and 3 photographs of drawings of the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple in Scranton, Pa. Also included is 1 aquatint (27.8 x 27.8 cm., in mat 46.3 x 44.4 cm.) of the McGraw-Hill building in New York City, signed lower right: D. Douglass.