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Arizona 2002

Sketches relating to the architecture and culture in Arizona. Back cover inscribed: "Jimmy Cosgrove. Paris October 1993/ Arizona March 2002"

Cosgrove, James

Josephine Haswell Miller's sketchbook

Sketchbook belonging to Josephine Haswell Miller, dated 1920-1925. In the front page her address is listed as 224 West Regent Street, Glasgow. The sketchbook contains various drawings, including, of buildings, furniture and faces. Tucked inside the sketchbook are some ephemera, including; a letter addressed to Miller from boots the chemist, a postcard with a photograph of the Shaw Memorial in Boston on the front, and two letters addressed to her.

Miller, Josephine Haswell

Lindheimer Astronomical Research Centre

A free hand drawing consisting of the external view of Lindheimer Astronomical Research Centre at the North Western University, describing one of its telescopes in the 70 foot turrets which projected the heavens onto TV monitors.

Platt, Christopher

Notebook 1990s/2006

Contains sketches, notes and stories, including writing on airports. Some pages headed 'Las Fallas, Valencia, March 2005' and 'Route 66'. Includes sketches for a landscape series.

Cosgrove, James

The first Unitarian Church Wisconsin (1950)

A drawing sheet consisting the external perspective view of the first Unitarian Church, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, with some written information describing the design of the church's roof as the peaked roof centrally depicts the function of the building and what goes on outside, that is hands clasped and raised in prayer.

Platt, Christopher

The first Unitarian Church, Wisconsin (1950)

A free hand drawing consisting the external perspective view of the first Unitarian Church, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright describing the construction materials used on the exterior walls which gave the building an organic look.

Platt, Christopher

The Unitarian Church, "Frank Lloyd Wright - Architecture and space".

A drawing sheet consisting the external perspective view of the first Unitarian Church, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, with some written information from his book "Architecture and Space":
'In this story I am God', a quotation which Peter Blake inserted in the back cover of the book as he wrote: 'As the lawgiver of Modern Architecture,' Blake added, 'He had been compared to Moses'.

Platt, Christopher