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Box Mixed k_21 (F)

 Container

Contains 18 Results:

Portraits of Irene Walker, circa 1950s-circa 1970s

 File — Box: Mixed k_21 (F), Folder: 5

Student work, circa 1947-circa 1951

 File — Multiple Containers

Furniture sketches, circa 1952-circa 1966

 File — Box: Mixed k_21 (F), Folder: 6

Resume and clippings, circa 1966-circa 1970s

 File — Box: Mixed k_21 (F), Folder: 7

Eleanor S. Brown collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: KA-0162-01
Abstract

Eleanor S. (McMillen) Brown (1890-1991) was a graduate of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later Parsons School of Design), who founded the interior design firm McMillen Inc. This collection consists of biographical materials, photographs, press clippings, and correspondence donated by her grandson, Michael McMillen.

Dates: 1924-1999

Photographs, 1920s-1990s

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Includes several slides of Eleanor Brown throughout her life which were used in the 1998 presentation by Michael McMillen to the Mary Institute in St. Louis. Also includes several portraits of Brown, a photographic portrait of Frank Alvah Parsons, photographs of Eleanor with her husband Archibald Brown, and photograph of Eleanor Brown and Parsons School of Design president Van Day Truex.

Dates: 1920s-1990s

Apartment documents and correspondence, 447 East 57th Street, 1929-1991

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Folder includes a purchase agreement for the apartment, and an appraisal of the apartment made for the estate of Eleanor S. Brown in 1991, which includes photographs.

Dates: 1929-1991

First ABC No Rio Inception on 125 Delancey Street, circa 1980

 File — Box: Mixed k_21 (F), Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

This poster title is devised from a note affixed to its back side. The poster is a print of a photograph, probably depicting an artist putting up a poster onto the ABC No Rio building at 125 Delancey Street in New York, likely as part of The Real Estate Show organized by the gallery in 1980. The poster was formerly folded and there are acid paper discolorations on it.

Dates: circa 1980