A Guide to the Papers of Edmund S. Campbell
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 3505
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Use Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
Papers of Edmund S. Campbell, Accession #3505, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
The papers were transfered to the Manuscripts Department from the School of Architecture's office files in July 1950.
Biographical/Historical Information
Edmund Schureman Campbell was born in New Jersey October 28, 1884. He received his B.S. (1906) and M.S. (1907) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and spent the year 1911-1912 studying at l'Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. After serving on the faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Armour Institute of Technology, and as Dean of the Beaux Art Institute of Design in New York, he came to the University of Virginia in 1927 to head the School of Architecture and to be Curator of the Bayly Museum of Fine Arts. He held these positions until his death in 1950.
Scope and Content Information
The Edmund S. Campbell papers consist of ca. 20,000 items. They deal primarily with the University of Virginia's School of Architecture and related matters from 1919 to 1930. Much of the material relates to construction at the University, but also to various national architecture societies, institutes, and museums.
All Library folders include correspondence of University Librarian Harry Clemons. All University of Virginia Museum folders contain correspondence of University President John Lloyd Newcomb.
Arrangement
The collection is generally in the order derived by Professor Campbell- alphabetically by his topic headings. Within the folders, the order is chronological. Some four hundred unidentifiable items were placed at the end.
Contents List
Includes letters from John Lloyd Newcomb and Harry Clemons
Concert folders include many of Fiske Kimball letters
Includes correspondence from President John Lloyd Newcomb, Fiske Kimball and Harry Clemons
See also: Ferguson, Dean
Includes correspondence with Edwin Anderson Alderman and John Lloyd Newcomb
Includes a letter from James Southall Wilson, 1942 September 9
Includes letters from John Garland Pollard and Philip Stern
Contains correspondence of Fiske Kimball
Includes correspondence from President John Lloyd Newcomb
All Library Folders Include Correspondence of Harry Clemons
Includes correspondence of Mrs. Gari Melchers and President John Lloyd Newcomb
Includes correspondence of John Lloyd Newcomb and Colgate W. Darden.
see also: President's Office (John Lloyd Newcomb)
Concerning Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
see also: Alderman, Edwin Anderson
see also: Newcomb, John Lloyd
Includes correspondence of Harry Byrd and John Garland Pollard
Includes correspondence of John Lloyd Newcomb.