Using Digitized Microfiche in Avery Library's Frank Lloyd Wright Collections: Frank Lloyd Wright correspondence

Avery Library's archival collection, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives : correspondence, 1885 - 1965, is housed in the Drawings & Archives department. It includes over 140,000 pages of correspondence, and serves as an essential resource for understanding American architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s personal and professional activities, relationships, and ideas. The correspondence also includes project records such as specifications, contracts, supply orders, photographs, invoices, and receipts.

Letters from the 1880s through the 1920s accounts for only 2% of the total correspondence in the collection (approximately 2,000 documents). The bulk of the correspondence is from the 1930s until Wright’s death in 1959. 

Image: Frank Lloyd Wright writing letter at desk in Plaza Hotel, NY, 1946, detail. Photographer Blackstone Studios. Photo no. 6006.0021. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York).