Project and Exhibition Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Tobias, Abraham Joel, 1913-1996
setName: label: See more items in
content: Abraham Joel Tobias papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.6 Linear Feet (Boxes 1, 2, 4, OV 5)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938-2000
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.tobijoel, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: This series is organized chronologically by mural commission, followed by project proposals, and exhibition files.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Project and exhibition files contain varying combinations of the following: correspondence, photographs, publicity material, legal documents, and proposals. Printed material includes announcements catalogs, and clippings. Some material is in Russian.

The project file for Science and Engineering (1958) contains a patent certificate for striated plastic, a material that Tobias employed in two murals. Other material of interest is correspondence with the Harmon Foundation regarding a documentary film on Tobias's use of ethyl silicate for outdoor murals.