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Collection Creator:
McCoy, Esther  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1922-1989
Scope and Contents note:
This subseries primarily contains letters concerning McCoy's career in architectural history and criticism. Her career in fiction writing is covered to a lesser degree. Among the correspondents are researchers, writers, professors, architects, art professionals, publishers, and professional associations. Topics covered include research and writing projects, Los Angeles area preservation and restoration projects, and grant projects. Major correspondents in this series include the American Institute of Architects, the Graham Foundation, City of Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board, Domus Magazine, Los Angeles Times, editor Monica Pidgeon, architectural critics Reyner Banham, David Gebhard, William Jordy, Robin Middleton, Allan Temko, and Nathan Shapira, and architects J. R. Davidson, Craig Ellwood, Joseph Giovannini, Hans Hollein, A. Quincy Jones, and Bruno Zevi. Also found is extensive correspondence with the University of California, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. Correspondence for 1959 contains a letter from Albert Camus requesting McCoy's assistance with helping Spanish refugees, and correspondence for 1989 contains photographs of Esther McCoy and others at the Athenaeum at Caltech for the third annual gala of the Historical Society of Southern California. See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents from Series 2.3.
Arrangement note:
Material is arranged chronologically. The bulk of McCoy's correspondence with architects is arranged in Series 6: Architect Files. Additional correspondence pertaining to specific projects can be found in Series 4: Architectural Writings and in Series 5: Project Files. Correspondence in this series complements the files found in these other series and they should be consulted together for a better understanding of McCoy's career.
Appendix: Selected Correspondents from Series 2.3:
Abbot, Mary Squire (McIntosh and Otis, Inc.), 1949, 1950, 1953, 1957 Adahura, Yuki, 1942 Adams, Christopher, 1962 Albinson, Don, 1989 Alexander, Christopher, 1965 Allen, Albert, 1968 Amantea, Kirjah, 1982 Ambre, Reuth, 1986 American Academy in Rome, 1970 American Federation of Arts, 1966 American Film Institute, 1975 American Institute of Architects, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989 American Institute of Interior Designers, 1974 Anderson, Sherwood, undated Andrews, Wayne, 1983 Architecture -- , 1985 Architecture in Australia, 1974 Architectural Forum -- , 1965, 1966, 1968 Architectural History Foundation, Inc., 1982, 1983, 1984 Architectural Publishing Co., 1967 Architectural Record -- , 1959 Archive of Women in Architecture, 1975 Archives of American Art, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989 Arizona Quarterly -- , 1949 Arizona State University, 1969 Arts in Society -- , 1964 Ashton, Raymond J., 1948 Ashton, Ruth (KNX Radio), 1964 Atkinson, Janet Irene, 1980, 1985 Author and Journalist, 1951 Bailey, Van Evera, 1953 Baldauf, Lisa, 1989 Balint, Dr. D. P., 1963 Banham, Reyner (Peter) and Mary, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1989, undated Barnette-Stratford, Mrs. Lou, 1968 Barsocchini, Michael, 1970 Beach, John, 1984 Beebe, Tina, 1989 Behrman, S. N., 1960 Belluschi, Pietro, 1949 Beltram Carla, 1966 Bendixson, T. M. P., 1961 Bennett, Janey, 1986 Berkeley, Ellen Perry, 1975, 1987, 1988, undated Bicknell, Catherine, 1985 Birkmeyer, Karl, 1968 Blanton, John, 1988 Blau, Milton, 1947 Boaz, Joseph N., 1949 Bowlby, Bob, 1983, 1989 Boyer, John, 1982 Brant, Sandra, 1975 Brooks, Allen, 1975 "The Bradbury Girls," 1972 Brunati, Mario, 1963, 1965, 1966 California Coastal Commission, 1977, 1978 California Council of Architects, 1957 California Department of Parks and Recreation, 1973 California Historical Society, 1979 California Magazine -- , 1985, 1986 California Polytechnic State University, 1978, 1984 California State Office for Historic Preservation, 1978 Camus, Albert, 1959 Carrott, Richard, 1973 Carson, Sam, 1969 Casabella (Gian Antonio Bernasconi), 1965 Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930 Chang, Ching Yu, 1977, undated Chase, John, undated Chermayeff, Serge, undated Choate, Forrest, 1986 Christian Science Monitor -- , 1987 City Attorney, Santa Monica, California, 1968 City of Beverly Hills, 1982, 1983, 1984 City of Los Angeles, Cultural Heritage Board, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988 Clark, Alson, 1984, undated Cochran, Victor E., 1953 Cohen, Elaine Lustig, 1985 Cohen, Stuart, 1979 Colgan, Susan, 1979 Collier's -- , 1953 Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 1947, 1948 Columbia University, 1972, 1973 Communication Dynamics, 1963 Compagnia Nazionale Artigiana, 1956, 1960 Contini, Edgardo, 1963 Correa, Frederico, 1975 Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1983 Cragar, Robert, 1949, 1950 Craig, Mary, 1945 Crosbie, Michael, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989 Cross, Paula, 1981 Culot, Maurice, 1972, 1973 Curtis, William, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989 Dailey, Gardner A., 1948 Dale, John R., 1989 Davidson, Barnaby, 1984 Davidson, Carlos, 1984 Davidson, Erica, 1983, undated Davidson, J. R. and Greta, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, undated Davidson, Tom, 1981, undated Day, Peter, 1985 De Bretteville, Peter and Sheila (The Woman's Building), 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 De Long, James, 1947 Dearborn-Massar, 1961 Delano, Leonard H., 1949 Design Quarterly -- , 1975, 1987 Dictionary of American Biography -- , 1975 Dictionary of Art -- , 1986 Diefenbach, John, 1973 Dimster, Frank, 1966 Dixon, John Morris, 1979 Domus -- (Lisa Licitra Ponti), 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1982 Donohoe, Victoria, 1965, undated Dorman, Richard, 1970 Dougherty, Carole, 1989, undated Downing, Holly, 1974 Dudley, George, 1984, 1988, undated Dukeminier, Jesse, Jr., 1967 Dyson, Arthur, 1985, 1987 Easton, Bob, 1977 Eckbo, Gerrett, 1977, 1982 Eder, Richard, 1987, 1988 Edilizia Moderna, 1965 Eisner, Richard K., undated Elliott, James, 1986 Ellwood, Craig, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1984, 1988 Elwyn, Adolph, 1946 Emanuel, Muriel, 1979 Emmons, Donn, 1975 E. P. Dutton and Co., 1975 Favro, Diane, 1987 Fetherson, Kate, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1988 Feiss, Carl, 1948, 1949 Field, Ellen, 1964 Filler, Martin, 1986 Fisher, Shirley, 1978 Flack, Peter, 1975 Fonda-Bonardi, Mario, 1989 Ford, Edward R., 1986 Foreign Service of the United States of America, 1959, 1962 Forsyth, Robert J., 1961, 1962 Fortune -- , 1936 Francis, Marcia, 1979 Franks, Milton, 1962 Franzen, Ulrich, 1968, 1969 Frey, Albert, 1988 Friends of Cast Iron Architecture, 1972, 1974, 1977, undated Friends of Kebyar, 1984 Fulton, Weldon, undated Gebhard, David, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, undated Geddes, Robert L., 1977 General Services Administration, 1973 Giella, Alfonso and Bobbi, 1967, 1974, 1982 Gill, Dorothy, 1985 Giovannini, Joseph (Gio), 1979, 1981, 1986, 1988, 1989, undated Goldberger, Paul, 1972, 1973, 1975 Goldman, Shifra M., 1979, undated Goldstein, Barbara, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1989, undated Gordon, Don, 1980, undated Gould, Jean, 1965 Graham Foundation for Studies in the Fine Arts (Carter Manny), 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, undated Granger, Kathleen, 1981 Gray, Paul, 1977 Greenbaum, Katherine, 1980 Greene, Herb, 1971, 1972, 1976, undated Greenhill, Nigel, 1973 Gregory, Dan, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987 Guss, Jack, 1961 Hall, Milly, 1970, 1976, 1977 Hanks, David, 1986 Harnish, John, 1960 Harper and Row, 1979 Harper's Bazaar -- , 1951, 1952, 1961 Harris, Robert, 1981, 1982 Harvard Architecture Review -- , 1977, 1979 Harvey, Harold E., 1972, 1973 Haupt, Peter, 1967 Hayden, Dolores, 1984, undated Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, 1967, 1969 Hernandez, Diana, 1976, undated Herron, Ron, 1969 Hess, Alan, 1985 Hillyer, Elinor, 1949 Hinerfeld, Susan and Robert, 1984 Hines, Tom, 1971, 1975 Historical Society of Southern California, 1988, 1989 Hitchcock, H. R., 1956 Hite, Garron S., 1972 Hoag, Paul Sterling, 1981 Hollein, Hans, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1976, 1984, undated Hollywood Revitalization Committee, 1979 Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977 Houvener, Robert, 1969 Howe, John H., 1980 Howe, Sanora Babb, 1980, 1982, 1989 Humanities West -- , 1984, 1985 Huxley, Aldus, 1960 Ingalls, David K., 1987 Interiors -- , 1984, 1985 Istituto Nazionale per il Commercio Estero, 1970 Jansen, Virginia, 1978 Japan Architect -- , 1968 Jarrico, Paul, 1971 Johnson, Mark R., 1981 Jokl, Magda, 1978 Jonas, Susan, 1963 Jones, A. Quincy and Elaine, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, undated Jordy, William H., 1959, 1961, 1967, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1984 Jourdan, Erven, 1951 Jurney, David, 1957 Kahn, Louis, 1960 Kamerling, Bruce, 1980, 1985 Kappe, Raymond and Shelly, 1970, 1973 Kazin, Alfred, 1961, 1984 KCRW 89.9 FM, 1989 Kennedy, Jacqueline (letter to and reply from secretary), 1964 Kershner, Irvin, 1960 Khoury, E. M., 1960, 1963 Killingsworth, Edward, 1989 King, Jean, 1975, 1977, 1987, undated King, Robert I., 1963 Kirsch, Jonathan, 1977 Koeper, Fred, 1980 Kotas, Jerry, 1971, 1973, undated Kripacz, Francisco, 1985 Kultermann, Udo, 1967 Lagorio, Elena, 1975 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1977, 1986 Lamb, Paul, 1982 Landau, Sarah B., 1971 Langer, Elinor, 1975, 1983 Lawson, John Howard (Jack), 1947 Lebovich, William, 1979 Lee, Joyce, 1975 Leedy, Walter, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1976, undated Legorreta, Ricardo, 1971 Lehman, John, 1948 Le Veque, Ann, 1980 Library of Congress, 1983 Lindauer, Theodore, 1983 Lingeman, Richard, 1986, 1987 Longstreth, Richard, 1982 Lorman, William, 1954 Los Angeles Conservancy, 1984, 1986 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966, 1967, 1982 Los Angeles Times, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985 Lovell, Gary, 1968, 1978 Lovell, Leah, 1960 Lovell, Philip, 1968, 1972 Lowenkopf, Anne, 1975 Lumsden, Anthony, 1969, 1974 Luna, Fernando, 1971, 1974 Lyman, Frederic, 1974, 1989 Lyndon, Maynard, 1983, 1984, undated MacDowell Colony Fellows, 1988 Mangiarotti, Angelo, 1970 Manson, Grant, 1974 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984 Maston, Carl, 1969, 1970, 1972 May, Cliff, 1983, 1985 McCoy, John, 1954, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1988 McCoy, Tori, 1974 McCulloch, Peter, 1962 McWilliams, Carey, 1980 Mendelsohn, Mrs. Eric, 1974, 1975 Meyer, Kurt, 1969 Middleton, Robin, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988 Mies Van Der Rohe Centennial Project, 1984 Miller, R. Craig, 1973 Miller, Donald M., 1986 Minister, Chancery of Pakistan, 1965 Moholy-Nagy, Sibyl, 1966, 1969 Mouton, Pierre, 1986, 1988, 1989 Muller, Louis, 1988 Murphy, William (Bill), 1969, 1970, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, undated Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1976 Museum of Modern Art, 1961, 1964, 1976 Mutlow, John, 1982 Nakamura, Toshio, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985 National Building Museum, 1981 National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, 1933 National Endowment for the Arts, 1971, 1975, 1980, 1981, 1982 National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977 Nelson, June Kompass, 1985 Nelson, Sara, 1974 New West -- , 1976 New Yorker -- , 1953, 1962, 1968, 1974, 1975, 1876, undated Nichols, Henry L., 1982, 1987 Nishimoto, Kenneth, 1959, 1968 Nixon, Peg and Chuck, 1976, 1989, undated North Carolina State University, 1983 Novotny, Norbert, 1973 Nunis, Doyce, Jr., 1989 Oakley, Susan H., 1974 O'Gorman, Brit and Peter, 1983 O'Gorman, James F., 1973, 1984 Ohannesian, Paul B., 1978, 1979 On Site -- , 1975 Owen, Tom, 1963, undated Pacific Design Center, 1985 Palazzo Dell'Edilizia, 1963, 1964 Pan American World Airways System, 1955, 1956 Pardee, Clark, 1989 Park, Donald, 1986 Park, Helen, 1979 Paul, Stella, 1988 Peregrine Press, 1971, 1977, 1986, 1989 Perspecta (Jeff Limerick), 1961, 1975, 1976, undated Pflueger, Donald, 1989 Pidgeon, Monica, 1973, 1974, 1980, 1982, 1986 Plantin Press, Ltd., 1984 Praeger Publishers, Inc., 1972 Price, Joe D., 1969 Price, Martin, 1964 Prinsloo, Ivor, 1988 Producer-Writers Guild of America Pension Plan, 1960 Pyne Press, 1974 Rand, Marvin, 1989 Read, Gardner, 1968 Reinhold Book Division, 1968 Reinhold Publishing Division, 1960, 1970 Rhode Island Historical Society, 1977 Rhode Island School of Design, 1977 Ricasoli, Bettino, 1960 Ricci, Leonardo, 1966 Rice Design Alliance, 1976 Richardson, Betty, 1982 Richardson, Sara, 1987 Riggs, Lutah Maria, 1978 Rinehart, Arley, 1977, 1978 Roark, I. L., Jr., 1948 Robertson, A. G., 1954 Robinson, Sidney, 1973 Roche, Kevin, 1968 Rosa, Joseph, 1987, 1988 Rose, Ronald, 1984 Rosenberg, George, 1952 Rosenstone, Robert, 1973, 1974 Ross, Michael Franklin, 1979 Ross, William D., 1952 Roth, Leland, 1978 Rouillard, Dominique, 1985 Rucker, Karen Conan, 1985, 1986 Ruff, Carl, 1977 Ruocco, Ilse, 1946 Russell, Julia, 1982 Rydell, Roy, 1974, 1976 Sadler, H. G., 1973 San Diego City Council, 1984 San Diego Museum of Art, 1979 San Francisco State College, 1968 Sanders, Terry, 1965 Sanguinetti, Vittorio, 1963, 1964 Santa Monica Landmarks Commission, 1981 Santini, Pier Carlo, 1964 Saturday Evening Post -- , 1959, 1960 Sauer, Louis, 1968 Sawelson-Gorse, Naomi, 1989 Secrest, Meryle, 1988 Serulnic, Mrs. George, 1967 Sewell, Elaine K., 1966 Shapira, Nathan, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1979, 1983, undated Shaw, Lawrence C., 1948 Shultz, Susan, 1969 Simo, Melanie, 1987, 1988 Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1963 Smith, C. Ray, 1972 Smith, Frank Folsom, 1967 Smith, Kathryn, 1979, 1987, 1988, undated Smith, Robert, 1972 Smith, Whitney, 1970 Smithson, Alison, 1983, 1985 Snow, C. P., 1960, 1961 Solomon, Barbara Probst, 1984 Southern California Institute of Architecture, 1989 Southwest Review -- , 1952 Space Design -- , 1984 Speiss, Fred, 1977, undated Stahlberg, Arlen, 1976 Stanfield, Cecil E., 1949 Stegner, Wallace, 1947, 1951 Steinbrueck, Victor, 1964 Stern, Robert and Lynn, 1965, 1966, 1973 Sterner, Carl John, 1974 Stickney, Charles, 1964, 1967 Stone Magazine -- , 1965 Strand, Janann, undated Straub, Calvin, 1970 Sunset Magazine -- , 1981 Sussman, Deborah, 1987, 1989, undated Super, Rob, 1974 Taylor, Crombie, 1967 Tazewell, E. Bradford, Jr., 1967 Temko, Allan, 1957, 1966, 1970, 1988, 1989 The Modern Quarterly -- , 1948 The Pacific Spectator -- , 1947 Thiry, Paul, 1949 Tigerman, Stanley, 1965, 1977 Toland, James, 1955, 1957 Travers, David, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1977, 1987, undated Tulane University, 1982, 1983, undated Turner, George P., 1960 Underhill, Anna A., 1941 University of California, Berkeley, 1974, 1978 University of California Extension, 1974 University of California, Santa Barbara, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1982, 1987 University of California, Santa Cruz, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979 University of Cambridge, Department of Architecture, 1975 University of Oklahoma, 1949, 1985 University of Pennsylvania, 1984 University of Southern California, 1970 University Press of Kentucky, 1974 University Prints, 1957 University Women's Club, 1972, 1975, 1983 Vaccarino, Donna, 1989 Van Doren, Phyllis, 1984 Veret, Jean-Louis, 1960 Ventre, Francis T., 1985 Veronesi, Giulia, 1966, 1974 Via -- , 1976 Victor Gruen Foundation for Environmental Planning, 1972 Victor, Michael, 1983 Voelcker, John, 1968 Von Breton, Harriette, 1969 Von Eckardt, Wolf, 1981, 1983, 1984 Vreeland, Thomas, 1965, 1969, 1974, 1984 W. W. Norton and Co., 1966 Walker Art Center, 1975 Walker, Derek, 1982 Walker, Sam, 1985 Walton, Billy, 1986 Ward, Robert and Sandra Williams Photography of Architecture, 1977, 1978 Ward, Robertson, 1981 Wasserman, Steve, 1984, 1985, 1986 Waugh, Arthur B., 1959 Wayne, June, 1981, 1985 Weirick, James, 1970, 1974 Weiss, Peggy, 1982, 1984 Wemple, Emmet L., 1974, undated Western Association of Art Museums, 1967 Wicks, Ebba L., 1949 Wight, Frederick S., 1966 Wilk, Christopher, 1987 William Morris Agency, 1957 William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1950 Williams, Alexander Kruse, 1985 Williams, Wayne R., 1952, 1953, 1972 Wills, David, 1969 Wilson, Forrest, 1972, 1975, 1983,1987 Wilson, Richard Guy, 1981 Winslow, Carleton Monroe, 1969, undated Winter, Bob, 1964, 1975, 1976, undated Woman's Building, 1987 Woman's Day -- , 1957 Women's Architectural League, 1981 Wood, Donna, 1981 Woodbridge, Sally, 1977, 1982 Woollen, Evans, 1983, 1984 Wright, Eric Lloyd, 1984 Writers Guild of America, West, 1967, 1969 Wurster, William, 1964 Zevi, Bruno, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1974
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Collection Citation:
Esther McCoy papers, circa 1876-1990, bulk 1938-1989. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.mccoesth, Subseries 2.3
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