Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress)

Architectural photographs, often made on commission for architects, designers, and commercial businesses, record important design achievements. Interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures, primarily in the northeastern United States and Florida. Also, documentation of the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York. Work by Gottscho before the establishment of the firm Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. includes views of New York City and the surrounding area and images of family and friends.Collection title devised.Collection span dates correspond to Gottscho's early photographs (1896) until near the end of his life (1970); the bulk dates correspond to the firm's most active years (1935-1955).Photographic prints are from original negatives.Original jackets for film items with job titles, item numbers, item titles, dates, and information about exposures and lens sizes are in PR 12 CN 165.Multi-volume negative registers (1916-1971) provide job titles, item numbers, item titles, and dates for negatives at the Library of Congress and in other repositories. A one-volume index lists clients before Sept. 1930. These volumes are in P&P Supplementary Archives.For unprocessed portion of the collection: Please allow fourteen days advance notice to view materials. To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.htmlWashingtoniana : photographs : collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress / Kathleen Collins. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1989, p. 99.Negatives, transparencies, and unprocessed photographic prints not served for regular reference use.Additional Gottscho-Schleisner negatives held by the Avery Library, the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Public Library, and Mrs. Doris Schleisner.Gift and purchase; Mrs. Doris Schleisner; 1979-1989; (DLC/PP-1979:R01, 1979:R02, 1982:R01, 1982:220, 1983:R01, 1984:234-236, 1984:285, 1984:411-424, 1988:251, 1989:039).Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. consisted of two partners, Samuel H. Gottscho (1875-1971) and William H. Schleisner (1912-1962). The firm was active from 1935 until Schleisner's death in 1962. Most of the work from before 1945 is by Gottscho. Most work from the period 1945-1960 is by Schleisner. The collection also includes work by Gottscho before the establishment of the firm and work done after Schleisner's death.A set of catalog records describing each item is available through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. See http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lcoa1.abou