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{"value"=>"1387", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 1387", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1885/1944", "value"=>"1885-1944"}
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1885
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1944
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1885
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1885
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1944
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{"value"=>"Oswald Constantin Hering papers"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 linear feet (7 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"Collection consists of papers of Oswald C. Hering, his third wife, Adelaide Arms Hering, and his mother, Fanny Field Hering; and includes correspondence, photographs, photostats, architectural drawings, clippings, printed ephemera, and books. Correspondence concerns professional matters, architectural business, fraternity activities, professional and social clubs, and family and personal affairs. Also, clippings about Hering, genealogical materials, architectural visual materials, annotated books, and family photographs. Fanny Field Hering letters concern her research for a biography of French artist Jean Léon Gerôme and personal matters. Adelaide Arms Hering correspondence relates to her family."}
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{"value"=>"Some correspondence in French"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Oswald Constantin Hering papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Hering, Oswald Constantin, 1874-1941", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Oswald Constantin Hering, architect and author, was born in Philadelphia, January 12, 1874. He was the son of Rudolph Hering, a civil engineer, and Fanny Field Hering, a librarian and teacher who authored a book on the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Oswald Hering attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1893-1897) and studied art and architecture further at the Atelier Ginain and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris (1897-1899). In 1901, he opened his own architectural practice in New York City, which he ran, for a period, in partnership with Douglass Fitch.</p> <p>Hering specialized in country and suburban homes and pioneered the residential use of reinforced concrete. He designed a number of residences for Garden City and Jamaica Estates, Long Island, New York, as well as \"Trailsend\", the home of James M. Cox, the 1920 Democratic presidential nominee. His nonresidential projects included the old Brentano's bookstore in New York City and the Lakewood Theater, Skowhegan, Maine.</p> <p>Hering was the author of numerous articles and books on architecture. The latter are: Concrete and Stucco Houses (1912); Economy in Home Building (1924); and Designing and Building the Chapter House (1931), the result of the Interfraternity Conference s 1931 committee on architecture, which he chaired. Hering also wrote a book about his world tour of 1927, Down the World (1932).</p> <p>Hering joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity while a student at MIT and was active in fraternity matters throughout his life. In 1919, he became editorial assistant and, in 1925, editor of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Quarterly. Work for the DKE Fraternity became Hering's chief activity during the Depression, when the building industry fell off.</p> <p>Hering was a member of many other social and professional organizations, including the American Institute of Architects, the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, the Technology Club, the Amateur Comedy, Dutch treat, and Players clubs, and the Sons of the Revolution, whose quarterly he edited.</p> <p>Hering was married three times. His third marriage in 1933 was to Adelaide Heriot Arms, proprietress of the Sleepy Hollow Bookshop on Irving Place in New York City. Hering helped manage this business until its sale in 1937, when he and his wife left the city for Falls Village, Connecticut, where he died March 6, 1941.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Oswald C. Hering Papers span the years 1885 to 1944 and include the papers of Adelaide Arms Hering and Fanny Field Hering, as well as Oswald Hering. They consist of handwritten and typewritten correspondence, photographs, photostats, architectural drawings, clippings, printed ephemera, and books. The papers are organized into eleven series. Except for Oswald's professional correspondence and Fanny's letters received, the papers were in a state of extreme disorder prior to accessioning. Consequently, the arrangement here does not reflect an original order. Pencil and ink annotations on documents are mostly the work of Adelaide Arms Hering.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Oswald Constantin Hering papers are arranged in eleven series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1387#c1039628'>I) Oswald C. Hering - Personal Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Correspondence with family and friends, arranged by year. The bulk is letters from Oswald to his mother and to his father, written while at MIT and in Paris. There is a noticeable dearth of letters from the 1920s.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1387#c1039631'>II) Oswald C. Hering - Professional Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Correspondence with architectural clients, is largely arranged by an alphabetical scheme imposed in a previous partial processing. Some correspondence with firms is filed under the names of the firms; other correspondence with the same firms is filed under the names of the officers of the firms. Prominent correspondents include O. D. Gray, Walter Hering, Gage Tarbell, and the management of Garden City-Jamaica Estates. Separate files not part of the alphabetical scheme are Partnership with Douglass Fitch, N. Y. C. Block Reclamation Project, Re Magazine Articles, and Assorted Correspondence.</p> <p>Clients, A-Z.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1387#c1039691'>III) Oswald C. Hering - 1930s Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Correspondence not integrated into the professional alphabetical series. It is a mixture of letters concerning professional, social, and personal matters and gives evidence of the hard times Oswald's practice faced during the Depression. It is arranged mainly by year. Special files concern Oliver Herford and wife, literary correspondence and writings, and the Welfare Island Grand Jury, which Oswald served as foreman.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1387#c1039697'>IV) Oswald C. Hering - DKE Correspondence & Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Relates to Hering's activity as editor of the DKE Quarterly. It consists of typewritten letters and articles, as well as pages torn from quarterly issues. Most of the material is unsorted and dates from the 1930s. There are special files of correspondence on DKEs in Who's Who, on the Jubilee issue of the quarterly, with Secretary Marian Westervelt, and regarding Oswald's design for a chapter house, which was allegedly stolen by an architect for a fraternity house at the University of Idaho. There are also copies of the quarterly's DKE 90th anniversary issue and its memorial issue dedicated to Oswald.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1387#c1039704'>V) Oswald C. Hering - Club Correspondence, Professional & Social</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Contains correspondence and printed matter pertaining to the various social and professional clubs of which he was a member. It is arranged alphabetically by the name of club. See the container list for the names. The largest club subseries are the Players Club and the Sons of the Revolution, the latter consisting of correspondence between Oswald and President John Vernou Bouvier.</p> <p>Clubs, A-Z.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1387#c1039716'>VI) Oswald C. Hering - Clippings & Genealogical Material</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Folder of clippings regarding Oswald's architectural and authorial careers, family obituaries, and genealogical charts and correspondence.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1387#c1039717'>VII) Oswald C. Hering — Books</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Includes Oswald's MIT Class Book, his Paris account book, the 1921 DKE Havana Convention book, an annotated copy of Economy in Home Building, and an incomplete folded-and-gathered copy of the 1929 edition of Building, Concrete & Stucco Houses.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1387#c1039718'>VIII) Adelaide Arms Hering - Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Consists of letters received from her father, Winthrop Arms, and correspondence following Oswald's death. It includes a copy of Oswald's will.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1387#c1039721'>IX) Fanny Field Hering - Letters Received</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1387#c1039730'>X) Architectural Photographs & Visual Material</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Comprises photostats, photographs, and halftone reproductions torn from magazines and books of buildings Oswald designed. Most of his projects are represented. There is only one original drawing, for renovations at the Sleep Hollow Bookshop.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1387#c1039731'>XI) Family Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Consists of cabinet cards, snapshots, and negatives of Oswald, Fanny, Adelaide, relatives, and friends. A number of cabinet cards are of MIT student theatricals with Oswald in female costume.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Eleven series: I. Personal Correspondence, 1888-1929; II. Professional Correspondence, 1899-1937; III. 1930s Correspondence, 1930-1941; IV. DKE Correspondence & Writings, 1929-1944; V. Club Correspondence, 1893-1941; VI. Clippings & Genealogical Material, ca. 1896-1941; VII. Books, 1896-1929; VIII. Adelaide Arms Hering Correspondence, 1897-1909, 1941-1942; IX. Fanny Field Hering Letters Received, 1885-1898; X. Architectural Photographs & Visual Material, ca. 1899-1937; XI. Family Photographs, ca. 1880-1941</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>January 6, 1971; June 29, 1979, Received from Mrs. Oswald C. Hering, Mrs. Jane C. Burke</p>"}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Accessioned by CF, November 3, 1988</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Avery Library, Columbia University, Oswald C. Hering - Drawings</p> <p>Library, Department of Architecture, MIT, Oswald C. Hering - Drawings, models</p>"}
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3 linear feet (7 boxes)