Administrative records and promotional material

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People:

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (archive creator)

Title:

Administrative records and promotional material

Date:

1953-2018

Level of archival description:
Sub-series

Extent and medium:

2.59 l.m. of textual records
410 photographic material
275 digital files (5 GB)
217 drawings (including 120 reprographic copies)
6 sound recordings
2 panels
1 moving image

Scope and content:
This sub-series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's administrative records of her practice as landscape architect from the end of the 1950s to the end ot the 2010s. It comprises material related to her consulting services on her own various landscape projects and urban planning projects, and also her consulting services for projects submitted as member of a larger project team for private or public projects. Her office records also contains documents related the planning of her work, her patents applications and designs for her own landscape or playground furnitures, and her professional correspondence. The sub-series also documents Oberlander press and promotional activities, such as interviews she gave, articles written about her, about her work as landscape architect, her statements or her activism for social and environmental causes or preservation landmark buildings and spaces.

The sub-series contains documents related to Oberlander's consulting services, including requests for services, proposals by her or by the project team, correspondence, or documentation collected for projects calls of interest to Oberlander. Oberlander's office records for planning of projects and other activities includes professional correspondence files, agendas and planners, message books and notebooks, patents applications and plans for her designs, and office references, such landscape architecture regulations and guidelines, and landscape specifications templates. The sub-series also comprises promotional material, such as photographs of her previous projects, press clippings of articles or periodicals with articles about her or her work, promotional panels for some of her major projects, and brochures or leaflets on her most well known projects. It includes also contains recordings of interviews on TV or radio shows she gave, biographical information on Oberlander, versions of her CV's, portaits of her, and lists and project write-ups.

Reference number:

AP075.S3.SS2

Arrangement:
Documents in this sub-series had no original order. They are arranged in five categories: material related to consulting services; material related to patent applications and office references; professional correspondence; material for the day to day work and activities planning; interviews given by Oberlander; writings about Oberlander; and project write-ups and biographical informations. Oberlander's professional correspondence is arranged in chronological order. Oberlander's notebooks, agendas, and message books are grouped by years and arranged in chronological order. Writings about Oberlander are grouped by year and arranged in chronological order.

Digital records were processed after physical records and are therefore organized at the end of the file inventory.

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