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1. Page from Owen Jones' The Grammar of Ornament (London, 1856)

Primary Title:
Page from Owen Jones' The Grammar of Ornament (London, 1856)
Description:
Snapshot of person looking at The Grammar of Ornament (1956).
Creator/Contributor:
Architecture and Planning Library staff (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
2010-08-21

2. East entrance detail

Primary Title:
East entrance detail
Description:
Battle Hall, east entrance doorway.
Creator/Contributor:
Architecture and Planning Library staff (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
2009-06-23

3. Page from Owen Jones' The Grammar of Ornament (London, 1856)

Primary Title:
Page from Owen Jones' The Grammar of Ornament (London, 1856)
Description:
Snapshot of page from The Grammar of Ornament (1956).
Creator/Contributor:
Architecture and Planning Library staff (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
2010-01-01

4. Page from Owen Jones' The Grammar of Ornament (London, 1856)

Primary Title:
Page from Owen Jones' The Grammar of Ornament (London, 1856)
Description:
Snapshot of page from The Grammar of Ornament (1956).
Creator/Contributor:
Architecture and Planning Library staff (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
2010-01-01

6. Inside the archives stacks

Primary Title:
Inside the archives stacks
Description:
Archival boxes from the Ford collection in the Alexander Architectural Archives stacks.
Creator/Contributor:
Beth Dodd (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
2007-02-28

7. Students enjoy the beautiful Reading Room

Primary Title:
Students enjoy the beautiful Reading Room
Description:
Reading Room in Architecture and Planning Library.
Creator/Contributor:
Beth Dodd (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
2009-02-26

9. Sample in situ box from O'Neil Ford collection

Primary Title:
Sample in situ box from O'Neil Ford collection
Description:
Boxed archival materials, as received.
Creator/Contributor:
Beth Dodd (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
2002-07-14

10. UT Woman's Building

Primary Title:
UT Woman's Building
Description:
Postcard showing Women's Building, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.
Creator/Contributor:
Coughlin and Ayres (architects)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1903-01-01

11. 1933 University of Texas Perspective for Future Development

Primary Title:
1933 University of Texas Perspective for Future Development
Description:
Perspective for Future Development, University of Texas, 1933
Creator/Contributor:
Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945 (architect)| Alan C. Davoll (renderer)| J. Floyd Yewell (renderer)| University of Texas (client)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1933-01-01

12. Public Library, Boston

Primary Title:
Public Library, Boston
Description:
Dry plate negative image of Boston Public Library. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 011338.
Creator/Contributor:
Detroit Publishing Co. (publisher)| not attributed (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1899-01-01

13. Frieze panels

Primary Title:
Frieze panels
Description:
Frieze panels, with notes on background, modelling, and border color.
Creator/Contributor:
Donnelly & Ricci (architectural sculptor)

14. Frieze panels

Primary Title:
Frieze panels
Description:
Frieze panels, with notes on background, modelling, and border color.
Creator/Contributor:
Donnelly & Ricci (architectural sculptor)

15. Proposed Library Building rendering with terrace

Primary Title:
Proposed Library Building rendering with terrace
Description:
Study for main elevation. Proposed Library Building, elevation showing a terrace and people. Proportions and dimensions of the final design but includes pilasters between the arches and a much simpler treatment of brackets supporting the eaves.
Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)

16. Main Floor Plan Library Building for The University of Texas

Primary Title:
Main Floor Plan Library Building for The University of Texas
Description:
Main Floor Plan showing the Reading room, delivery space, catalogue room, librarian's room, and the stack room.
Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)

17. Vacuum sweeper system specifications

Primary Title:
Vacuum sweeper system specifications
Description:
Specifications for the vacuum sweeper system. University of Texas , Austin, Texas.
Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)

18. Library building, design for special escutcheon

Primary Title:
Library building, design for special escutcheon
Description:
Sketch 11. Library building, University of Texas. Design for special escutcheon. "Note: Model to be submitted for architect's approval."
Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1910-08-10

19. Preliminary study for Educational Building University of Texas elevation-rendering

Primary Title:
Preliminary study for Educational Building University of Texas elevation-rendering
Description:
Study for the Education Building. Sutton Hall, completed in 1918, was built to house the education department. For it, Gilbert introduced the combination of Leuders limestone base and a ruddy blend of brown, tan, and ochre bricks that his successors have repeated on classroom buildings throughout the Forty Acres.
Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1916-07-12

21. University of Texas Library "details for wrot and cast iron balcony over main story windows."

Primary Title:
University of Texas Library "details for wrot and cast iron balcony over main story windows."
Description:
Sketch 16. Elevations and section of cast iroin balconies, showing ornament, brackets. Drawn by H. K. C., traced by R. G. C.; checked by R. G. C.
Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)| H. K. C (delineator)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1910-12-01

22. Preliminary block plan, University of Texas at Austin

Primary Title:
Preliminary block plan, University of Texas at Austin
Description:
Preliminary block plan showing the UT campus, bounded by 21st Street to the south, Guadalupe Street to the west, 24th Street to the north, and Lampasas Street to the east. Existing buildings include Administration (Main), Women's building, Chemical building, Engineering building, Shops and Power, Brackenridge Hall, Law School building. Areas designated for Fine Arts, Classical Studies, and Sciences.
Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)| Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1881-1966 (associated architect)| Phillips (delineator)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1914-08-15

23. New University of Texas plan, Section looking north

Primary Title:
New University of Texas plan, Section looking north
Description:
New plan for University of Texas, Section looking north, showing Residence, Dormitory, Recitation, University Hall, Museum, Breckenridge Hall, and Student Hall
Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)| Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1881-1966 (delineator)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1911-01-28

24. North elevations, University of Texas

Primary Title:
North elevations, University of Texas
Description:
Sketch of north elevations of buildings at the University of Texas at Austin.
Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)| Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1881-1966 (delineator)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1910-11-09

25. New University of Texas plan, Section looking west

Primary Title:
New University of Texas plan, Section looking west
Description:
New plan for University of Texas, Section looking west, showing Recitations, Library, University Hall, Chemistry, and Dormitory
Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)| Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1881-1966 (delineator)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1911-01-25

26. Birdseye sketch of proposed new layout for the University of Texas

Primary Title:
Birdseye sketch of proposed new layout for the University of Texas
Description:
Proposed new layout for the University of Texas
Creator/Contributor:
Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 (architect)| Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1881-1966 (delineator)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1911-01-12

27. Proposed Library Building rendering

Primary Title:
Proposed Library Building rendering
Description:
Rendering, Proposed Library Building, corner view showing people and an automobile. The rendering in gray tones likely was intended for reproduction in print media. It depicts the library as built except for the balustrade, which was never realized. The Woman’s Building appears in the background.
Creator/Contributor:
H. R. Johnson (delineator)

28. University of Texas Library enlargement: scheme no. 3, north elevation

Primary Title:
University of Texas Library enlargement: scheme no. 3, north elevation
Description:
Herbert Miller Greene's proposed expansion of the existing library. Scheme No 3, Enlargement of Library, North Elevation, University of Texas.
Creator/Contributor:
Herbert Greene Architects (architectural firm)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1926-07-16

29. University of Texas Library enlargement: scheme no. 3, east elevation

Primary Title:
University of Texas Library enlargement: scheme no. 3, east elevation
Description:
Herbert Miller Greene's proposed expansion of the existing library. Scheme No 3, Enlargement of Library, East Elevation, University of Texas.
Creator/Contributor:
Herbert Greene Architects (architectural firm)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1926-07-16

30. University of Texas Library extension: scheme no. 1, east elevation

Primary Title:
University of Texas Library extension: scheme no. 1, east elevation
Description:
Herbert Miller Greene's proposed expansion of the existing library. Scheme No 1, East Elevation, Library Extension, University of Texas.
Creator/Contributor:
Herbert Greene Architects (architectural firm)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1926-07-16

31. University of Texas Library extension: scheme no. 1, north elevation

Primary Title:
University of Texas Library extension: scheme no. 1, north elevation
Description:
Herbert Miller Greene's proposed expansion of the existing library. Scheme No 1, North Elevation, Library Extension, University of Texas.
Creator/Contributor:
Herbert Greene Architects (architectural firm)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1926-07-16

32. University of Texas Library extension: scheme no. 2, east elevation

Primary Title:
University of Texas Library extension: scheme no. 2, east elevation
Description:
Herbert Miller Greene's proposed expansion of the existing library. Scheme No 2, East Elevation, Library Extension, University of Texas.
Creator/Contributor:
Herbert Greene Architects (architectural firm)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1926-07-16

33. St. Louis Public Library

Primary Title:
St. Louis Public Library
Description:
Looking along south front from southeast, St. Louis Public Library, Olive Street between Thirteenth & Fourteenth, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO
Creator/Contributor:
Jack E. Boucher (photographer)| Historic American Buildings Survey (creator)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1986-01-01

34. Old Library construction photos: showing cornerstone ceremony

Primary Title:
Old Library construction photos: showing cornerstone ceremony
Description:
Old Library construction photos: ceremony, showing 1910 cornerstone, crowds of people, including musicians in foreground to right.
Creator/Contributor:
Jordan (photographer)

35. Cornerstone ceremony, Nov. 2nd, 1910, Library, Austin

Primary Title:
Cornerstone ceremony, Nov. 2nd, 1910, Library, Austin
Description:
Photograph of the cornerstone ceremony for the library building at the University of Texas at Austin, Nov. 2nd, 1910, Library, Austin.
Creator/Contributor:
Jordan (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1910-11-02

36. Old Library exterior: view toward entrance

Primary Title:
Old Library exterior: view toward entrance
Description:
Old Library (Battle Hall), University of Texas. View of northeast corner, showing people, east and north entrances.
Creator/Contributor:
Jordan Company (photographer)

37. Detail of wooden grill in Reading Room

Primary Title:
Detail of wooden grill in Reading Room
Description:
Details of the ornamental woodwork in the Reading Room in Battle Hall.
Creator/Contributor:
Katie Pierce Meyer (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
2011-08-10

38. Detail of wooden grill in Reading Room

Primary Title:
Detail of wooden grill in Reading Room
Description:
Details of the ornamental woodwork in the Reading Room in Battle Hall.
Creator/Contributor:
Katie Pierce Meyer (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
2011-08-10

41. Proposed Library Building rendering

Primary Title:
Proposed Library Building rendering
Description:
Study for the Library Building, main elevation. A larger and more ornate building than the final version. Notable features include an elaborate portal, wrought iron balcony railing, pilasters between the arches, and a frieze with metopes, inscriptions and medallions.
Creator/Contributor:
Loring, Charles G. (Charles Greely), 1881-1966 (delineator)

42. Library staircase details

Primary Title:
Library staircase details
Description:
University of Texas Library, main staircase railing details.
Creator/Contributor:
Office of Cass Gilbert (architect)

43. Library building, revised drawing of main cornice

Primary Title:
Library building, revised drawing of main cornice
Description:
Revised drawing of main cornice, University of Texas Library.
Creator/Contributor:
Office of Cass Gilbert (architect)

44. University of Texas, Campus sketch, north elevation

Primary Title:
University of Texas, Campus sketch, north elevation
Description:
Sketch of north elevations of University of Texas campus buildings
Creator/Contributor:
Office of Cass Gilbert (architect)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1920-10-01

45. UT campus sketch elevation of proposed gym

Primary Title:
UT campus sketch elevation of proposed gym
Description:
Sketch of proposed gym on the University of Texas campus
Creator/Contributor:
Office of Cass Gilbert (architect)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1913-06-05

46. Cass Gilbert

Primary Title:
Cass Gilbert
Description:
Portrait of Cass Gilbert, 10/3/1907.
Creator/Contributor:
Pach (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1907-10-03

47. Plan for renovating the stairs for the Barker Texas History Center

Primary Title:
Plan for renovating the stairs for the Barker Texas History Center
Description:
Work no. 4718. Marble stair contract. Remodeling of Old Library Building for the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center.
Creator/Contributor:
Robert Leon White (supervising architect)| W. B. S. (delineator)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1948-03-12

48. Detroit Public Library

Primary Title:
Detroit Public Library
Description:
Detroit, Michigan. Main building of the Detroit Public Library
Creator/Contributor:
Siegel, Arthur S. (photographer)
Date Created/Date Issued:
1942-07-01

49. Spencer Turbine - the perfect Vacuum Cleaner

Primary Title:
Spencer Turbine - the perfect Vacuum Cleaner
Description:
Page 16 of brochure for the Spencer Turbine Company, manufactured by the Spencer Turbine Cleaner Company, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Creator/Contributor:
Spencer Turbine Cleaner Company (creator)