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Collection is open for research.
The collection is open to research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Louise Hall Papers, Ms2000-086, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 2000.
The collection is unprocessed. Minimal description was completed in or prior to 2002 and 2014. The collection is primarily in original order; however in 2014, selected personal correspondence was organized in chronological order.
Louise Hall (1905-1990) earned a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1927, B.S. from MIT in 1930, and a Ph.D. from Radcliffe 1954. She was a long-time member of the North Carolina Chapter of the AIA, and served as its archivist. She taught art and architectural history at Duke University from 1931-1975 and mentored many architects and scholars, including Dr. Mary Woods at the School of Architecture at Cornell who published a history of the profession.
The Louise Hall Papers contain papers from her teaching career, various jobs including architecture projects, drawings from an architecture class, diaries, maps, blueprints, scrapbooks and original artwork. It also includes old family letters and photographs (including glass negatives, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and tintypes), genealogical research notes, and personal papers.
At the time of the donation, the collection was organized by material type and, more loosely, by the subject matter of materials. It is unclear to what degree this arrangement reflects the original order imposed by the creator. In the interest of minimal interference, these broader categories have generally been retained. The arrangement detailed in this finding aid reflects a high-level description of content by box. A more detailed inventory is available on request.
Although Series I is loosely divided into personal and professional correspondence, the original order reflected notable inter-mixing between the two. In 2014, selected personal correspondence was organized in chronological order.
See also the Louise Hall Papers, UA.29.02.0008 , Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The guide to the Louise Hall Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).