Contents List

Container / Location		Title
		Series I. Projects, Appointments, and Consultations [series]:
1		U.S. Army, Camp Planning Section certificate, list
1		Washington Highlands (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) site plan pamphlets from Richter, Dick, and Reuterman
1		Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University Fellowship correspondence, invoices
1		Wyomissing Park, Pennsylvania - site plan correspondence, pamphlets, photos, drawings, map.
1		The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, correspondence, lists
1		The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, unpublished manuscript
1		The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, unpublished manuscript, lists
1		The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, unpublished manuscript "Washington's Golden Age"
1		The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, memoranda including American Planning and Civic Association
1		The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, letters of Pierre Charles L'Enfant
1		The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, pamphlets
1		The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, articles, petition, report
1		The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, clippings
1		The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, photos
1		The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, drawings, sketches, plans
1		The L'Enfant Plan of Washington, drawings, plans
1		Paul V. Harper Estate landscaping, correspondence
1		Paul V. Harper Estate landscaping, correspondence
1		Paul V. Harper Estate landscaping, photos
1		Paul V. Harper Estate landscaping, drawings, sketches
1		Tent-house Construction, correspondence, plans, elevations, reports.
1		Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan, Greenbelt towns correspondence, chart
1		Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan report
1		Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan reports, proposed zoning ordinance
1		Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan manuscript articles by Peets
1		Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan manuscript articles
1		Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan articles
1		Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan pamphlets
1		Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan clippings
1		Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan photos
1		Greendale, Wisconsin - town plan maps, drawings, plans
1		Catalina Island, California - planned development correspondence, report
1		Site Planning Section, U.S. Housing Authority and Federal Public Housing Authority correspondence
1		Site Planning Section, U.S. Housing Authority and Federal Public Housing Authority reports
1		Site Planning Section, U.S. Housing Authority and Federal Public Housing Authority notes, memos, clipping, plan
1		San Juan, Puerto Rico - housing and planning correspondence, poem, pamphlet, clippings
1		San Juan, Puerto Rico - housing and planning photos
1		San Juan, Puerto Rico - housing and planning photos
1		San Juan, Puerto Rico- La Perla Park drawings
1		Park Forest, Illinois - town plan correspondence, speech, clipping, plans
1		Commission of Fine Arts, Washington D.C. - Civic Art correspondence
1		Commission of Fine Arts, Washington D.C. - Civic Art notes
1		Commission of Fine Arts speeches, transcripts
1		Commission of Fine Arts pamphlets
1		Commission of Fine Arts clippings
1		Harvard Lecturing Appointment correspondence, directives
1		Consultations - correspondence, invoices
1		Calixto Garcia Monument, Cuba - photos
		Series II. Writings [series]:
		Published Writings [subseries]:
1		The Central High School Monthly (Elbert Peets, editor)
1		"Street Trees in the Built-Up Districts of Large Cities" Landscape Architecture
1		Civic Art, co-authored with Werner Hegemann - contract, correspondence, brochures, cross reference
1		Civic Art - prints
2		Civic Art - prints
2		Civic Art - negatives
2		"Central Park" The American Mercury - correspondence, drafts, article
2		"Interior of the Lincoln Memorial" The American Mercury - correspondence, drafts, article
2		"Mussolini, Haussmann, and Company" The New Republic - correspondence, articles
2		"The New Washington" The New Republic, The American Mercury - correspondence
2		"The Landscape Priesthood" The American Mercury - correspondence, drafts, article
2		"Restoration of Rome"
2		"Cleveland Reservoir" The Nation - correspondence, article, drawing
2		"The Reign of the Masonry Dome" The Nation - correspondence, article
2		"The Genealogy of L'Enfant's Washington" - American Institute of Architectures - correspondence, draft, article
2		"Art is Craftsmanship" The Vista
2		"Restraint and Order in Planning Outdoor Rooms" Your Garden
2		"Garden Epigrams and Insults by Elbert Peets" Your Garden
2		"The Garden as a Reservoir of Time" Your Garden
2		"On the High Hedge as a Hobby for Men" Your Garden
2		"Famous Town Planners: I - Haussmann" - correspondence, article
2		"Famous Town Planners: II - Camillo Sitte"
2		"Famous Town Planners: III - L'Enfant"
2		"Famous Town Planners: IV - Plans for Re-building London in 1666"
2		Baltimore Sunday Sun, Washington Plan Series - correspondence, drafts, articles
2		"Current Town Planning in Washington" - correspondence, draft, article
2		"An Accurate Re-Drawing of the Central Part of L'Enfant's Autograph Plan" Architectural Record
2		"L'Enfant's Washington" The Town Planning Review
2		"City Planner Believes Pope did Job he was Employed to Do" The Washington Daily News - draft, article re the Jefferson Memorial
2		"Washington, Williamsburg, the Century of Progress, and Greendale" - Architectural Book Publishing Co. - correspondence, book
2		"The Original Plan of Washington" House and Garden - magazine, correspondence
2		"Site Planning for Livability" The American City
2		"Post-War Use of Temporary Housing Sites" The American City
2		"Four Guides for Building a New Home" The Journal of Housing
2		"The Neighborhood Concept" The Journal of Housing
2		"Studies in Planning Texture" Architectural Record
2		Review of Deane G. Carter and Keith H. Hinchcliff, Family Housing in The Journal of Housing
2		"The Genealogy of the Plan of Washington" Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
2		Review of Frederick Gibberd, Town Design in Landscape Architecture
2		"The Golden Horses" - on Washington, D.C. Civic Art
2		"East Front Pilgrims" The Washington Post - clippings
2		"The 'President's Square'" The Washington Post
2		"Le Plan du Major L'Enfant" - magazine, correspondence
2		On the Art of Designing Cities, book of Peets' essays edited by Paul D. Spreiregen - correspondence
2		On the Art of Designing Cities - correspondence
2		On the Art of Designing Cities - correspondence
2		On the Art of Designing Cities - notes, lists
2		On the Art of Designing Cities - draft
2		On the Art of Designing Cities - layouts
2		On the Art of Designing Cities - photos
		Unpublished Writings [subseries]:
2		"Some Design Aspects of City Street Trees" - Harvard School of Landscape Architecture thesis
2		"The Four Gods - A Socio-psychological Burlesque in One Act" - script
2		"Description of the 'Form-built' process of laying bricks"
2		"The Unknown Art" - correspondence, drafts
2		"Edgar Allen Poe, Landscape Gardener" - correspondence, manuscript articles, notes
2		Notes and correspondence for a proposed book on estate design
2		"Differentiating Features of Cities as Seen from the Air" - outline
2		"'Lawns and Planting' Specifications" - report for Balitmore Housing Authority
3		"The Orientation of Row Houses" - article
3		"Mithradates the King" - short story, annotated draft
3		"Mr. Business, Meet Miss Summer Cottage" - typescript draft article
3		"Ohio in Song and Story" - manuscript article
3		"The Beauty of Nela Park" - typescript draft article
3		"Gridiron Cities and Towns" - typescript articles
3		"The Location of Monumental Buildings" - typescript articles
3		"London" - manuscript and typescript article
3		"Away from Architecture"
3		"Wolfflin - Kuntsgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe" - typecript draft article
3		An article on Street Trees
3		"Preliminary Indoctrination for Officials Enforcing the Old Georgetown Law" - typescript draft article
3		A series of articles on architecture and city planning
3		Fragments of manuscript writings
		Series III. General Papers [series]:
		Correspondence [subseries]:
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence with Jacob L. Crane and others
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence with Lewis Mumford, Jacob L. Crane
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence with Anne Clapp, others
3		General correspondence
3		Correspondence with American Institute of Planners
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence
3		Correspondence
3		Undated correspondence, A-C
3		Undated correspondence, D-G
3		Undated correspondence, H-L
3		Undated correspondence, M-R
3		Undated correspondence, S-V
3		Undated correspondence, W-Z
3		Undated correspondence, no identification
3		Non-Peets correspondence
		Notes [subseries]:
3		Notes, notebooks
3		Notes, notebooks
3		Notes, notebook
3		Notes on city planning, housing
3		Notes on art, architecture, landscaping
		Manuscripts [subseries]:
3		Miscellaneous Manuscripts on Art, Architecture, and Planning - articles, speeches, excerpts
		Pamphlets [subseries]:
3		Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Art, Architecture, and Planning
3		Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Art, Architecture, and Planning
3		Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Art, Architecture, and Planning
3		Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Art, Architecture, and Planning
		Clippings [subseries]:
3		Miscellaneous Clippings on Art, Architecture, and Planning
		Brochures [subseries]:
3		Brochures
		Photos [subseries]:
3		Pennsylvania - civic architecture
3		Mt. Vernon, Virginia
3		Masachusetts
3		Weitz estate
3		Europe
3		People
3		People
3		Home and family
3		Personal photographs, negatives
3		Miscellaneous photos
3		Miscellaneous photos, negative (some foreign)
3		"Youngstown and miscellaneous street scenes and travel views" - negatives and photos of Youngstown, Ohio
		Graphics [subseries]:
4		Estates - plans and perspectives
4		Perspective drawings
4		Perspective drawings
4		General Plan, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Haldy, original.
4		Summer Home and Garden, Miss Shewbrooks, Bolton Meadow, Mass., original.
4		Plan for ...the Moraine Syndicate Property, West of Lake Forest
4		Study for Walk between Cedar and Central, 25th to 55th, City Plan Commission, Cleveland
4		Study for Walk between Scovill and Woodland, 30th to 55th, City Plan Commission, Cleveland
4		Study for a Recreation Center on Whisky Island, City Plan Commission, Cleveland
4		Plan for ...Park ...Kingsbury Creek, City Plan Commission, Cleveland
4		Study for Stadium Grounds, City Plan Commission, Cleveland
4		Diagrammatic Sketch ...Stadium Grounds, City Plan Commission, Cleveland
4		Sketch Plan for expansion of Town Center
4		Study for Emergency Housing
4		Study for ...development of ...Avalon Park, Chicago, Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, N.J., Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett, Architects
4		M Street, original
4		Student work at Harvard, sketches made at the British Museum
4		Plans and elevations, some done in Italy and France, some for The American Vitruvius
4		Sketches
5		Sketchbooks
5		Palmanova - linoleum prints
5		Peterborough Cathedral - linoleum prints
5		St. Paul's Cathedral - linoleum prints
5		Martini - city plan - linoleum prints
5		Majapahit, Java - city plan - linoleum prints
5		Linoleum prints - blocks
5		Miscellaneous non-Peets graphic items - drawings, prints, plans, postcards
		Family and Biographical Material [subseries]:
5		Family and Biographical Material
5		Family and Biographical Material - Edward O. Peets, Rumah Peets, Jan Van Bergen Collier - chart, correspondence, notebook, pamphlets, certificate, clippings
		Miscellaneous Papers [subseries]:
5		Miscellaneous Papers - poems, invoices, certificates, list
6		Printed material on Kohler Village and planned communities. Two offprints of articles co-authored by Arnold R. Alanen re some of Peets' work in Wisconsin: "Looking Backward at a New Deal Town: Greendale, Wisconsin, 1935-1980, by Joseph A. Eden and Arnold R. Alanen, and "Kohler, Wisconsin: Planning and Paternalism in a Model Industrial Village," by Arnold A. Alanen and Thomas J. Peltin. This is Greendale (paperback edition) by E. Peets. Note: Many of the photocopies in this box were made from our collection per K. Jacklin, June 1983.
6		Bibliography of Peets' writings on 4" x 6" notecards.
		Folio of drawings and sketches
		The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art, by W. Hegemann and E. Peets.
		The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art, by W. Hegemann and E. Peets, republication by Princeton Architectural Press with new introductory essays.
		Series IV. Plans, Prints, and Original Drawings in Map Drawer [series]:
		School Projects [subseries]:
		School Projects
		Town and City Plans [subseries]:
		Washington Highlands
		Wyomissing Park
		Washington, D.C., City Plan
		Greendale
		Greendale
		Park Forest
		Private Residences and Estates [subseries]:
		E. Richard Meinig, Wyomissing, Pa. - birdseye view from the east of the house and gardens
		E. Richard Meinig, Wyomissing, Pa. - grading plan for the garden
		F. W. Norris - "Larchwood" - details of garden
		Keene Addington, Lake Forest, Ill. - preliminary plan
		Herman Vihlein [sic.], Pabst, White Fish Bay, Milwaukee, Wisc. - general plan for development of the estate
		Herman Vihlein [sic.], Pabst, White Fish Bay, Milwaukee, Wisc. - garden theater
		Gustav A. Reuss, North Lake, Wisc. - plan for the development of the grounds of the gardener's cottage
		L. R. Smith, shore of Lake Michigan - sketch for the development, Scheme B
		L. R. Smith, shore of Lake Michigan - sketch for the development, Scheme F
		Myron T. MacLaren, Milwaukee, Wisc. - studies for the arrangement of steps to the east terrace
		Myron T. MacLaren, Milwaukee, Wisc. - general plan for the estate, second copy annotated
		Myron T. MacLaren, Milwaukee, Wisc. - plan for tennis court
		Myron T. MacLaren, Milwaukee, Wisc. - sketches for development, Scheme A, Birdseye
		Myron T. MacLaren, Milwaukee, Wisc. - construction plan for mall and steps at east side of garden
		Myron T. MacLaren, Milwaukee, Wisc. - general plan for the estate
		Fred Pabst, Oconomowoe - revised plan for garden
		H. Z. Logan, South Milwaukee, Wisc. - garden house
		George W. Rossetter, West of Lake Forest, Ill. - study for general plan
		Private Residences and Estates A series of numbered drawings - the first five titled "Estate No. One" and "Estate No. Two" - without titles, but illustrating various landscape designs based on classical or baroque style. Some are annotated indicating that they may have been intended for publication.
		Graham, St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, Ill. - first study
		Richter, Dick and Reuthmann - sales office at Washington Highlands [verso of above]
		Graham, "Five Pines," St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, Ill. - plan for vicinity of house (2 copies)
		Graham, "Five Pines," St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, Ill. - construction details (2 copies)
		Alfred MacArthur, 29 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. - studies for development of lots in 40acre tract on St. Mary's Road, Lake Forest, Ill.
		A. M. Johnson and Alfred MacArthur, Lake Forest, Ill. - study for a community development on property west of Lake Forest
		Alfred MacArthur, Lake Forest, Ill. - plan for vicinity of house (2 copies)
		Alfred MacArthur, Lake Forest, Ill. - plan for vicinity of house
		Alfred MacArthur, Lake Forest, Ill. - working plans for south arbor, north arbor, milk house trellis and end of wall (2 copies)
		Mrs. Paul V. Harper, St. Mary's and Old School Roads, Lake Forest, Libertyville, Ill. - cabinet work in dressing room, etc. (2 copies)
		Miss Weitz, Zoar, Ohio - plan for retaining wall and pavement
		Miss Weitz, Zoar, Ohio - new east wing for ...log house (second copy with annotations)
		Voevodsky, St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, Ill. - topographic map
		Voevodsky, St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, Ill. - general plan (2 copies)
		Ben E. Cohen's Farm, Fairfield, Lake County, Ill. - plan for vicinity of the house
		Stevenson, St. Mary's Road, Libertyville, Lake County, Ill. - topographic map
		Abbot, Fremont, Neb. - sketch (not Peets)
		W. O. Lindley, Lake Forest, Ill. - sketch plan of grounds
		Memorials, Parks, and Recreation Areas [subseries]:
		Memorials, Parks, and Recreation Areas
		Memorials, Parks, and Recreation Areas
		Memorials, Parks, and Recreation Areas
		Other Projects [subseries]:
		Other Projects
		Other Projects
		Other Projects
		Other Projects
		Other Projects