The Norman T. Newton Collection
Language: eng
Description: The bulk of this collection is comprised of World War II files of correspondence, news clippings & memorabilia, official military records, photographs (pre & during the war), and Sub Commission of MFA&A (correspondence, final reports, and maps). World War II - Pre and Post War - files is comprised of publications on conditions of works of art and historic monuments, battles, World War II experiences from the perspective of soldiers, military and world leaders both official and unofficial in Italian and English, manuscripts, and memorabilia.
Notes: The Norman T. Newton Collection. Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

Norman Thomas Newton was born in 1898 in Corry, Pennsylvania. He received both his undergraduate degree in 1919 and his Master's Degree in Landscape Design from Cornell University in 1920. In 1939 he joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design as Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture. His duties as an instructor were placed on hold in 1942 when he joined the war effort during World War II. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Air Force attached to the British Eighth Army doing the work of the Sub Commission of Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives. He later wrote a book titled "War Damage to Monuments and Fine Arts of Italy" documenting his work as a "Monument Man." He returned to Harvard after the War and resumed his professorship at Harvard. In 1963 he was named the Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture, which he held until his retirement in 1967. He is also noted for writing the book "Design on the Land" published in 1961, which is considered a comprehensive book on the subject of landscape architecture. He died in 1992.