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Finding Aids to Personal Papers and Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 09-068
Taylor, Lisa, 1933-1991
Lisa Taylor Papers, circa 1968-1991, 1997
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Taylor, Lisa, 1933-1991 |
Title: | Lisa Taylor Papers |
Dates: | circa 1968-1991, 1997 |
Quantity: | 6 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Accession 09-068 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | This accession consists of the personal papers of Lisa Taylor, Director, Cooper-Hewitt Museum (CHM), 1969-1987, and Director, Smithsonian Associates (TSA), 1966-1968. Materials document her personal correspondence and professional activities as well as her transition from TSA to CHM and the administration of CHM. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, postcards, photographs, invitations, clippings, reports, brochures, newsletters, and related materials. Also included are several manuscripts related to the exhibition "Disegno: Italian Renaissance Drawings and Design for the Decorative Arts" (1997) which were added to the materials after Taylor's death. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the personal papers of Lisa Taylor, Director, Smithsonian Associates (TSA), 1966-1968, and Director, Cooper-Hewitt Museum (CHM), 1969-1987. These materials document her personal correspondence and professional activities as well as her transition from TSA to CHM and the administration of CHM. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, postcards, photographs, invitations, clippings, reports, brochures, newsletters, and related materials. Also included are several manuscripts related to the exhibition "Disegno: Italian Renaissance Drawings and Design for the Decorative Arts" (1997) which were added to the materials after Taylor's death.
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This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Cooper-Hewitt Museum
- Disegno: Italian Renaissance Designs for the Decorative Arts (Exhibition) (1997: New York, N.Y.)
- Smithsonian Associates
- Taylor, Lisa, 1933-1991
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 09-068, Lisa Taylor Papers
Container List
Box 1
Abbott, Berenice
Abeles, Sophia
Abu-Lughod, Janet
Acheson, David
Adams, Robert McC.
Amaya, Mario
Agnelli, Gianni
Alcorn, William
Alexander, Robert
Allen, Gerald
Amery, Colin
Anays, Alex
Anderson, Florence
Anderson, Dean W.
Arrington, Richard (Jr.)
Asimov, Isaac
Atlanta Fall Conference (Interview)
Aureli, Giles
Bacich, Kathleen
Bacon, Karin (Citation)
Baldrige, Letitia
Baraban, Regina
Barlow, Elizabeth
Barnes, Ilana and Will
Barrows, Gordon
Bayley, Stephen
Beame, Abraham D.
Beckman, Sara
Bell, David Eugene
Bell, Jennifer
Benedict, H. Lincoln
Bennett, Ward
Bergstrom, M. A.
Berkman, Lillian D.
Bertin, Nadine
Beveridge, Meryle Secrest
Black, Carl
Black, Mary
Blade, Mary Plumb
Blake, Peter
Blakemore, Robbie G.
Block, William
Bloom, Joel N.
Blue, Janice and Jim
Bonsignor, Joe
Boorstein, Daniel J.
Botsai, Elmer
Bouilhet, Albert
Boyd, Karen Johnson
Boyne, Walter J.
Bradbury, Raymond
Bradford, Peter
Bralone, Edith
Braswell, Joseph
Brener, Stephen W.
Brezzo, Dagmar Grimm
Burdell, Edwin Sharp
Burden, Amanda
Burden, William A. M.
Bush, George
Callander, Sarah
Canavier, Elena
Canfield, Gabriella Befani
Canway, Barry
Capa, Cornell
Caraker, G. E.
Carey, Hugh
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carpenter, Hetty
Carrington, Judith
Cassini, Oleg
Castile, Rand
Chancellor, Andrew
Chancellor, Barbara
Cesarz, Franz
Chermayoff, Jane Clarke
Chiasson, Paul
Ciulla, Vincent
Clapp, Charlie
Clark, Lord Kenneth
Clark, Michael
Clauson, Angela Downer
Clay, Grady
Climente, Aude
Cline, Ann
Collins, George R.
Collins, Michael
Commoner, Lucy
Conklin, Bill
Cornish, Edward
Cousins, Kathryn
Cousins, Morison S.
Cowen, Jill Sanchia
Cowles Jan (Mrs. Gardener)
Coxe, Frances M
Coy, Peter M.
Crawford, Clare
Cristol, Patricia
Crosby, Theo
Crotty, Gerald
Crouch, Dora
Cullel I Nadal, Josep Ma.
Cuomo, Mario M.
Dams, Bernd
Davidson, Joan K.
Davies, Camille
Davis, Douglas
Davis, Lewis (with Michael George)
de Bure, Gilles
Dee, Elaine
DeFord, Mrs. Robert
Delaporte, Chris Therral (by Meg Maguire)
DeMeio, Albino
Diffrient, Niels
Dimonstein, Barbaralee
Dillon, Monika
Dinkins, David
Di Perna, Anthony P.
Dixon, Gordon C.
Dixon, Jeane
Dixon, John Morris
Draper, Elisabeth
Dreyfuss, John
Dobkin, John H.
Dorfman, Ann
Driskell, David C.
Dukakis, Michael S.
Dunne, Jane
Duval, Claude B.
Ebihara, Yoshiko
Eckart, Dennis E.
Eisner, Simon
Eldredge, Charles C.
Epstein, Paul D.
Evelyn, Douglas E.
Everett, John R.
Feldman, Ronald
Field, Virginia
Fil, Mavis
Fine, David
Fiske, Richard S.
Foss, Barbara
Frankenthaler, Helen
Fraser, Donald M.
Freedman, Jonathan
Freudenheim, Tom. L
Friedberg, Paul
Friedhoff, Richard M.
Friedmann, Arnold
Galbraith, John Kenneth (by Ann Livingston)
Gallagher, Edward P.
Gallagher, Patrick
Gallander, Cathleen
Gallery, Hogan Andrew
Galloway, David
Galloway, Gail
Gans, Herbert J,
Gardiner, Henry G.
Gardner, Arthur W.
Gardner, Richard N
Gaske, William
Gaudieri, Alexander V. J.
Gilbert, E.
Gilbert, Peter
Gill, Brendan
Gilman, Howard
Giral, Angela
de Givenchy, Hubert
Glaser, Jane
Glaser, Milton
Globus, Dorothy Twining
Gloucester, Duke and Duchess of, (by Simon Bland)
Glusker, Irwin
Goddard, Keith
Golany, Gideon
Goldberger, Paul
Goldblatt, Eileen
Golden, Martha (for Hugh Carey)
Goldsmith, Caroline L.
Goldstone, Harmon H.
Goodale, Robert D.
Gottschalk, Jane
Gough, Marion
Graham, Bob
Graves, Michael
Grayburn, Lynn
Green, Bill
Grigor, Murray
Grimes, Tammy
Gropp, Lou
Groneman, Carol
Grudin, Robert
Gruson, Sydney
Guimaraes, Dona
Gustafson, Eric
Haiblen, Julia
de Habsburgo, Inmaculada
Hadley, Jane and Arthur
Hall, Marcus B.
Hallgren, Richard E.
Halpin, Patrick G.
Halprin, Lawerence
Halsband, Frances
Hammerstein, Dorothy
Hanks, Nancy
Hara, Tomoko
Harding, May Maury
Hardy, Hugh
Hardy, Tiziana
Hare, DeDa
Harper, Conrad K.
Harris, Joe Frank
Hart, Kitty Carlisle
Hassemer, Dr. Volker
Haupt, Enid
Hayes, Thomas S.
Heckscher, August
Heinz, Drue and Jack (Henry)
Hejduk, John
Herman, Lloyd E.
Hershey, Lenore
Hesburgh, (Rev.) Theodore M.
Hicks, Sheila
Hightower, John. B.
Hitchcock, H. R.
Hoffman, Milton
Hollein, Hans
Holl, Steven
Holt, Steven
Horchow, Roger
Hoving, Thomas
Houghton, Alanson
Hoyt, Charles K.
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Huxley, Judith
Huxtable, Ada Louise
Hyatt, Gordon
Box 2
Isozaki, Arata and Aiko
Jacobs, John
Jashe, William
Johnson, Philip
Joyce, Henry
Judson, Franklin S.
Kagan, Vladimir and Erica
Kahn, E. J.
Kahn, Mrs. E. J. (Lisette)
Kainen, Jacob
Kainen, Ruth
Kaplan, Margaret
Kasemsri, M. L. Birabhongse
Katz, Karl
Kellogg, Hon. and Mrs. Francis
Kennedy, Edward M.
Kepes, Gyorgy
Kidder Smith, G. E.
Kier, Porter M.
King, Mr. and Mrs. Bayard LeRoy
Klahr, Myra
Klaus, Prince
Kleihues, Frances and Robert
Kliment, Stephen A.
Knight, Jacob
Koch, Edward I.
Koren, Edward
Koshland, William A.
Kroll, Lisa
Kuby, Phyllis
Kuhn, Walt
Kultermann, Udo
Kurokawa, Kiyohiko
Lacy, Bill N.
Lamb, David
Lambert, Eleanor
Lambert, Phyllis
Landrieu, Moon
Laderman, Anne B.
Lane, Kenneth Jay
Langlois, Henri
Langsam, Janet
Lapham, Lewis A.
Larsen, Carl W.
Larsen, Jack Lenor
Lash, Stephen S.
Lasker, Mrs. Albert D.
Lauder, Estee and Joe
Lauder, Ron
Lawrence, Francis C.
Lawrence, Sidney
Lawton, Thomas
Lax, Michael
Laxalt, Paul
Lebowitz, Samuel
Lerner, Abram
Lerner, David
Le-Tan, Pierre and Plum
Leventhal, Nathan
Levy, David
Lewis, Flora
Liebman, Theodore
Lindo, Arthur
Lindsay, Carroll
Lindsay, John V.
Litwin, Wallace
Locke, John
Loeb, Ann G.
Loewy, Raymond
Logan, Nedda
Logue, Edward
Long, Larry H.
Lorenzo, Sharon
Lorino, Bettie
Los Angeles Times
Louckheim, Katie
Lowe, David Garrard
Lowe, Harry
Lowery, Jack
Lynes, Russell
Mack, Arien
Macomber, John D.
Maloy, Dr. Robert (by C. Thompson)
Mangurian, Robert
Manny, Carter H., Jr.
Margolies, John
Marsh, Caryl and Michael
Marston, June
Martin, Judith
Martin, Mary
Mason, Bobbie Ann
Mason, Robert W.
Mastrangelo, Bobbi
Mattheson, Mac (for Evan Meecham)
Maurer, Dr. Evan M.
Maurer, Paul
Max, Peter
Maxfield, David M.
Maxwell, Vera
May, James
Mayer, Clara
Mayer, Robert A.
Mazzola, John W.
McAdoo, Francis H., Jr.
McAvoy, Ellen (for Dr. Daniel Callahan)
McCullough, David
McFadden, David
McFadden, Mary
McGowan, Ed
McHenry, William Barnabas
McLanahan, Alexander K.
McMillen, Betty
McNamara, Robert
McNulty, Robert H.
McWhinney, Madeline H.
Medici, Priscilla Grazioli
Menache, Samuel
Menezes, Naomi
Mercati, Leonardo
Messer, Tom
Messler, Norbert
Meyer, Gabriele and Josef
Meyers, Michael
Michels, Doug
Micio, Paul
Mihaesco, Eugene
Miles, William
Millard, John A
Miller, Marilyn J.
Miniato, Duke and Duchess Pini di San
Mirabella, Grace
Mondale, Mrs. Walter (by Bess Abell)
Moon Photo
Moonan, Wendy Lyon
Moore, Benjamin C.
Moore, Charles W.
Morishima, Hiroshi
Morforgen, Zachary
Morris, Janet
Morris, Kenneth B.
Morris, Susan
Morris, William
Morrow, Lance
Morse, Dinny
Morys, Trefan
Moss, Gillian
Mott, Stewart
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Mumford, Daniel
Municipal Arts Society
Murray, Maria F.
National Academy of Design
National Endowment for the Arts
Neas, Richard
Needham-McCaffrey, Janet
Nelson, George
Neumeister, Alexander
Neustadt, Egon
Newhouse, Nancy
Newhouse, Victoria
Newman, Oscar
Newshaw, Franklin (for W. Paley)
Nicholon, Peter
Niizuma, Minoru
Nordress, Lee
Norman, Gene
Norris, Gloria
Nowve, Lorna
Noyes, Eliott
Oakar, Mary Rose
Oe, Masandri
Oliver, Richard
O'Neil, Isabel
O'Neill, Mary Jane
O'Neill, Michael J.
O'Neill, Thomas P. ("Tip")
Onassis, Jacqueline
Oresman, Donald
Orsini, Armando
Orski, C. Kenneth
Oshima, Kazuko
Page, Liz
Pahlmann, William
Parker, Harry S.
Parkinson, Robin
Parish, Sister
Parkinson, Norman
Parnis, Mollie
Patterson, Anne
Box 3
Pavia, Philip
Pell, Claiborne
Pelli, Cesar
Pennebaker, Jane and Miles
Percy, Charles
Perrott, Paul N.
Peters, Richard C.
Pfister, Harold F.
Pifer, Alan
Pilgrim, Dianne H.
Platou, Dode
Plaut, Cindy
Pocker, Marvin
Polshek, James
Pommer, Richard
Ponti, Lisa
Pool, Mary Jane
Pope, Mrs. John A
Post, Marjorie Merriwether
Preiss, Eileen
Prestini, James
Price, Cedric
Pritzker, Jay
Prol, Elbertus
Pucci, Emilio di Barsento
Pulos, Arthur
Putnam, E. W.
Quayle, Dan
Queen Mother, Elizabeth
Racamier, Henry
Radziwill, Lee
Rashap, Arthur William
Reagan, Nancy
Reid, Sir Norman
Reif, Rita
Reinhardt, John E.
Rense, Paige
Reuther, Dr. Hans
Rhodes, Bill
Richardson, Midge Turk
Ripley, Dillon
Ritterbush, Philip G.
Robbins, Warren M.
Robertson, Dina (Merrill)
Robertson, Nan
Robinson, Walter G.
Rockefeller, Barbara
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rodgers, Dorothy
Rodgers, Richard
Rodwin, Lloyd
Rohlfing, Christian
Ronder, Paul
Rose, Cordelia
Rosen, Irving M.
Rosenbaum, Joan
Rosenfeld, Alvin
Ross, Arthur
Ross, Barbara
Rowland, David
Royal Fine Art Commission
Ruch, Sandra J.
Rudofsky, Bernard
Ruddley, John
Rumbough, David Post
Rusk, Dean
Russell, Beverly
Russo, Alexander
Sabattini, Lino
Sadik, Marvin S.
Safdie, Moshe
St. John, Bruce
Sammartino, Peter
Sandor, Gyorgy
Sarnoff, Anna and Richard
Sartogo, Adriana
Savadoff, Stephen
Savage, Mildred
Sawhill, John C.
Scherer, Peter
Schiff, Bennett
Schiff, Dorothy
Schiffrin, Andre
Schilling, Peter
Schlamminger, Karl and Naomi
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
Schlossberg, Caroline
Schlossberg, Edwin
Schmid, Horst
Schuman, William
Scott Brown, Denise
Sert, Josep Lluis
Sethi, Rajeev
Shane, Harold G.
Shapiro, Irwin
Shaw, Artie
Sherrill, Sarah B.
Shestack, Alan
Shettles, Landrum B.
Siebert, Solly
Sills (Greenough), Beverly
Silverman, Isabelle
Singh, Maheep Amrik
Shingu, Susumu
Shiomi, Kazuko
Shopsin, William C.
Short, Bobby
Shropshire, W., Jr.
Smith, C. Ray
Smith, Dan
Smith, Gregory
Smith, Paul
Smith, Philip
Solinger, Janet W.
Sondheim, Stephen
Soo Ping Yuen
Sottsass, Ettore
Spatt, Beverly Moss
Spencer, Helen W.
Spencer, John R.
Spring, Bernard P.
Squire, David F.
Staal, Arthur
Stainbrook, Dick
Stanton, Frank
Starr, Fred
Stavropoulos, George
Stein, Richard G.
Steinberg, Saul
Stern, Harold P.
Stern, Robert M.
Stern, Rudi
Stevens, Dr. Siaka
Stillman, Emily
Stout, Pola
Stratton, William
Strohl, Mitchell
Strong, Roy
Squire, David F.
Stratton, Will
Strohl, Mitchell P.
Sulzberger, Mrs. Arthur
Swan, Simone
Swartley, Keith H.
Sweeley, Michael
Symington, James McK.
Sympher, Dr. Peter
Tafel, Edgar
Taki, Tomio
Talese, Gay
Taplinger, Bob
Tawney, Lenore
Taylor, Daisy
Taylor, Frederieke
Taylor, Laurie
Taylor, Lindsay
Teague, Dorwin
Ter-Arutunian, Rouben
Terrazas, Eduardo
Theobald, Robert
Theodoredis, Pamela
Thompson, Garland Lee
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Baron Hans Heinrich
Toffler, Alvin
Toy, Howard
Tree, Marietta
Tregre, Louis
Trombetta, Michelle
Tuchman, Barbara
Tudor, Anthony
Turnbull, Sara Little
Tyng, Lila
Ueno, Takemi
Ungers, Matthias
Ungers, Simon
Van der Ryn, Sim
Vance, Cyrus
Vance, Gay
Van Hamel, Manette
Van Ufford, Leopold Quarles
Varney, Carleton
Vaughan, Thomas
Venturi, Robert
Victoria, Anthony G.
Vietor, Alexander O.
Vincent, Paul H.
Box 4
Vining, Donald
Vogel, Maxfield F.
Voinovich, George V.
Von Eckardt, Wolf
Von Zitzewitz, Ingeborg
Vosbeck, R. Randall
Vreeland, Diana
Wall, Ann
Wallace, A.
Warnecke, John Carl
Warner, William W.
Warrick, Ruth
Warsh, Larry
Washburn, Wilcomb E.
Watkins, Piera Maria
Watson, Betty
Watson, Francis
Webb, David
Webber, Melvin M
Weber, Jorg-Ingo
Wechter, Vivienne Thaul
Weidenfeld, Sandra
Weinstein, Richard
Weiss, Ted
Wellington, Margot
Whyte, William H.
Whitney, Marylou and Sonny
Wiener, Philip P.
Wight, Brandon Mayhew
Williams, Jack
Wilson, Richard Guy
Wines, James
Wirtz, Jane
Wiseman, Carter
Wittman, Otto
De Wit, Wim
Witte, D. Colman
Wittmann, Otto
Wittwer, Sylvan H.
Wolf, Joy
Wolf, Peter
Wolfe, Thomas H.
Wolfe, Tom
Wolfert, Paula
Woodward, William, III
Wouk, Joy
Wright, Malcolm
Wurman, Richard Saul
Yates, Sidney R.
Young, Rod
Zanuso, (Arch.) Marco
Miscellaneous Correspondence (2 folders)
Get Well Cards and Letters (to Germany, November-December 1985)
Travel Materials
Letters to August Heckscher dated June-July 1984
Letters to Representative Mary Rose Oakar (United States Congress) June 1985
Manuscript for "Becoming Henry Dreyfuss" - Chapter 1 and Preface
Manuscript for "Becoming Henry Dreyfuss" - Chapter 2
Manuscript for "Becoming Henry Dreyfuss" - Chapter 3
Manuscript for "Becoming Henry Dreyfuss" - Chapter 4 (1950s)
Manuscript for "Becoming Henry Dreyfuss" - Chapter 5 (1960s)
Manuscript for "Becoming Henry Dreyfuss" - Gail Davidson
Box 5
Manuscript for "Becoming Henry Dreyfuss" - KL Edits
Manuscript for "Becoming Henry Dreyfuss" - Ellen Lupton
Manuscript for "Becoming Henry Dreyfuss" - Caroline Mortimer
Smithsonian Invitations
Cooper-Hewitt Invitations
Invitations for Events Honoring Lisa Taylor
Other Miscellaneous Invitations
Speeches
The Torch
Cooper-Hewitt Clippings
Lisa Taylor Clippings
Miscellaneous Clippings (2 folders)
Cooper-Hewitt Opening
Cooper-Hewitt Newsletters, 1977-1987
Lower Manhattan Subways
Lisa Taylor Lectures
Lisa Taylor Interviews
Lisa Taylor Forwards and Publications (2 folders)
Box 6
Smithsonian Associates Departure, Cooper-Hewitt Appointment
Lisa M. Suter film, "A Living Museum" and talk to American Association of Museums Annual Meeting in New Orleans, May 24, 1969
Cooper-Hewitt Memoranda and Reports, 1970-1982
About Cooper-Hewitt Collections
Minutes of Board of Regents, May 11, 1987
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Tenth Anniversary Report
Exhibition Schedule, 1976-1987
Contributions Made to the Lisa Taylor Design Research Fund, June 11, 1987
Comments Offered on Lisa Taylor's Departure from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, June 18, 1987
Disegno: Italian Renaissance Drawings and Design for the Decorative Arts, 1997 (4 folders)
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