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Guide to the Goodyear Archival Collection

compiled by Laura Peimer

Project staff

Project Director Deirdre Lawrence, Principal Librarian
Project Manager Deborah Wythe , Archivist & Manager of Special Library Collections
Project Archivist Laura Peimer
Project Assistant Ed McLoughlin
Preservation Consultant Keith DuQuette
Preservation Assistant Marieka Kaye
Archives Intern Katherine Kennedy
Consulting Scholars Mary Dean and Graham Pont

Acknowledgements

We are extremely grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for recognizing the value of the Brooklyn Museum’s Archives and its importance to the scholarly community. In particular, we wish to thank Angelica Rudenstine for helping us develop a plan to make these archival collections available for research. The Mellon-funded Museum Archives Initiative grant to the Brooklyn Museum has supported the staff and project activities that have culminated in the complete arrangement, description, and preservation of the Goodyear Archival Collection. In addition, initial rehousing and printing of the Goodyear photographs was accomplished from 1986 through 1988 with funding by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the New York State Library Conservation/Preservation Grant Program.

The Goodyear finding aid is the result of a combined effort of archivists, librarians, and scholars to organize the Goodyear Archival Collection and make the papers available to researchers. The project involved many different individuals within the Brooklyn Museum as well as outside consultants. Deirdre Lawrence was responsible for overseeing the implementation of the entire project; Deborah Wythe supervised the project and managed the technological aspects; Laura Peimer processed and described the collection; Ed McLoughlin, Katy Kennedy (intern), and Peggy Coltrera (volunteer) helped identify and catalog the visual materials. Keith DuQuette and Marieka Kaye completed the project’s preservation activities. Consulting scholars Mary Dean and Graham Pont were invaluable in reviewing the text of the finding aid and providing suggestions for publications by and about Goodyear.

As a product of the Andrew W. Mellon funded Museum Archives Initiative, this guide will be made available on-line, along with several other finding aids, to provide greater access to the research collections held in the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives. We hope these tools will benefit researchers for many generations to come.

Collection Overview

SRG S03
Repository Brooklyn Museum
Creator Goodyear, William Henry
Title Goodyear Archival Collection
Dates 1874–1940
Extent: 67 l.f.
Abstract William Henry Goodyear was the Brooklyn Museum’s first curator of fine arts and an art and architectural historian. The Goodyear archival collection contains records relating to his work as curator and to his scholarly work, specifically his research on architectural refinements in medieval buildings in countries throughout Europe, Turkey, Egypt and Greece. Among the materials of note are correspondence with colleagues and friends including art historian A. Kingsley Porter; scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, letters, and photographs which document his research and career; and numerous photographs of gothic churches and cathedrals taken during his survey expeditions abroad. Other images include museums in Italy and photographs of the Paris Exposition of 1900. Digital images are available for many of the visual materials.
Language(s) English, French, German, Italian
Access

This collection is open to researchers by appointment.

Biographical Note

William Henry Goodyear (1846–1923) was the Brooklyn Museum’s 1 first Curator of Fine Arts from 1899 to 1923. In addition to being a vital force in the early years of the Museum’s Fine Arts Department, Goodyear was dedicated to research in art history and architectural theory, which he began pursuing during his post-collegiate education in Europe and continued until his final days at the Brooklyn Museum. He spent much of his life developing and promoting his theory of architectural refinements, often lecturing and exhibiting on the subject and attracting both supportive and critical reactions. Goodyear’s professional work and research had an influence on the fields of museology, art, and architectural history and his accomplishments have left an enduring impression.

William Henry Goodyear was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), the inventor and developer of the vulcanization process of India rubber, and Clarissa Beecher. From 1852 to 1858 Goodyear lived in France and in England, attending schools in Ventnor and Norwood. He eventually returned to New Haven and entered Yale University in 1863. After graduation in 1867 he traveled to Germany and pursued studies in Roman law and archaeology at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin.

Goodyear first became interested in art history at Heidelberg in the early spring of 1868. He returned to Berlin the following autumn to study under Professor Karl Friederichs, an authority on casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. In 1869 Friederichs invited Goodyear to accompany him to Cyprus to examine the Cesnola collection of Cypriot antiquities. There he made the acquaintance of General Louis Palma di Cesnola, Metropolitan Museum of Art Director from 1879 to 1904, who later helped bring Goodyear to that institution. From Cyprus, Goodyear journeyed to Syria, Palestine, and Italy. He spent three months in Italy in 1870, including a week in Pisa.

At Pisa Cathedral Goodyear made his first observation of architectural irregularities, which he named architectural refinements. In essence, architectural refinements are deviations and imperfections in a building’s design, which are employed by the architect purposefully and are not due to poor construction or structural failure. Goodyear concluded that these asymmetrical subtleties were intended to charm the eye and bring a dynamism and vitality to the construction. He observed that “the very apparent sloping cornices on the exterior of the Cathedral at Pisa were built in this manner in order to increase the apparent length of the building when viewed by the spectator from a certain point.” 2 He would return to the study of this phenomenon some years later with intense dedication.

After returning to the US in 1871, Goodyear married Sarah M. Sanford of Cleveland, Ohio—a union that would last for seven years. He began a career as a teacher, and in 1874 as a lecturer on the history of art and civilization. For many years he filled teaching and lecturing engagements in various educational, social, and art institutions throughout the United States, including the University of Chicago and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. It was in 1874, as well, that Scribner’s Magazine published his first essay on architectural refinements. This article, “The Lost Art,” examined the architectural asymmetries of cathedral buildings at Pisa. Charles Eliot Norton, professor of art history at Harvard University at the time, hailed Goodyear’s article as “the most important contribution to the topic since Mr. Ruskin wrote The Seven Lamps.” 3

In 1879 Goodyear married Nellie F. M. Johns, with whom he fathered five children: Mary Lord, Catherine, Charles, Jane Eleanor, and Rosalie Heaton. The marriage ended some years later and in 1897 Goodyear married Mary Katharine (Kate) Covert.

Goodyear’s Professional Career

Goodyear’s museum career began in 1881, when he was appointed curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 4 After three years he was given the title curator of paintings. He left that post in 1888 due to strained relations with the director, although later in his career he would attempt to return to employment at the Metropolitan Museum. From 1890 to his death in 1923, Goodyear was associated with the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (BIAS), the parent organization of the Brooklyn Museum. 5 He became titular curator of the Institute in 1890 and salaried curator of fine arts in 1899, shortly after the Institute’s new museum building opened. His responsibilities as curator were far-reaching and included overseeing the development and maintenance of the Museum’s collection of European and American paintings, ancient art, casts of Classical and Renaissance monuments and sculpture, and other miscellaneous art collections, as well as designing exhibitions and installations. One of his first accomplishments at the BIAS was the founding, in December 1899, of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, modeled on the Paris Musée Scholaire. 6 Goodyear also initiated an illustrated lecture series on the history and geography of fine arts, which led to the development of the Museum’s lantern slide collection. In 1900 the Brooklyn Institute sent him to Paris with photographer Joseph Hawkes to photograph the Paris exposition. Goodyear and Hawkes photographed various sites at the exposition and Hawkes colored the slides of the images. On his return, Goodyear used these slides to illustrate his lectures on the exposition.

By the turn of the century, Goodyear had earned a solid reputation as an art historian. He considered himself an expert on art and architecture, sculpture, painting, and decorative and industrial art of all periods. He published full scale works in art history, notably A History of Art (1888), Roman and Medieval Art (1893), and Renaissance and Modern Art (1894), in addition to writing numerous articles for journals. 7 In 1891 he visited Egypt to secure material for his work The Grammar of the Lotus. This book explored the history of classic ornament as a development of sun-worship and the influence of the lotus form in art. 8

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Survey Expeditions

Throughout his career, Goodyear continued his study of architectural refinements, organizing survey expeditions throughout Europe, Egypt, and Turkey. He visited medieval churches, cathedrals, and mosques, noting various types of refinements such as widening piers, curves in place of horizontal lines, and leanings of towers and church facades. 9 During these expeditions he collected measurements and took numerous detailed photographs illustrating the refinements. This research provided him with the evidence to expand and solidify his theories. With missionary zeal, he organized installations and exhibitions of cathedral images, delivered numerous slide lectures, and wrote detailed scientific articles about his research.

Goodyear’s discoveries of refinements in Pisa Cathedral in 1870 were followed in 1891 by his observations of horizontal curves of the Maison Carrée at Nîmes in southern France, the first observations ever made of curves in a Roman temple. Convinced that medieval architectural refinements are largely derivations from classical sources, Goodyear endeavored to prove the widespread existence of deliberate irregularities in the construction of medieval churches and cathedrals in Europe.

Goodyear’s 1895 Italian expedition was the first of a series of trips abroad during where he documented medieval cathedrals and churches, recording evidence of architectural refinements through the use of photographs that incorporated a surveyor’s rod, plumb lines, compasses, and other devices to show curves, widening, and leanings in architectural construction. Other major expeditions followed, financed by the Museum with the assistance of outside contributors. One avid supporter was Emma (Mrs. August) Lewis who contributed funds for survey expeditions and publications throughout Goodyear’s career. Goodyear credits Emma Lewis with suggesting the first expedition and for making the first contribution.

Goodyear summarized the purpose of his expeditions in a letter to Brooklyn Museum director William H. Fox dated March 27, 1919:

the general purpose of the expeditions carried out on behalf of the Museum was to make surveys and measurements, and to obtain negatives available for enlargement, bearing on the question whether so-called architectural refinements, that is to say, subtleties of construction intended to give optical interest to the buildings, were practiced during the medieval period. 10

Ultimately, Goodyear hoped to publish his findings and observations on medieval architecture as a scholarly book, a goal that he never met. His results, however, were published from time to time in articles in the American Journal of Archaeology, the Architectural Record; the American Architect; the Architect and Contract Reporter (London); Building News and Engineering Journal (London); Architectural Review (London); Journal of the Archaeological Institute; Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects; Reports of the Smithsonian Institution; Revue de L’Art Chretien; Brooklyn Institute Bulletin; and in a Brooklyn Museum publication series, Memoirs of Art and Archaeology.

Summary of Survey Expeditions: 11

1895
Italy (circa May – October). Included visits to Ancona, Arezzo, Assisi, Bari, Bologna, Borgo San Donnino, Chiusi, Cremona, Ferrara, Fiesole, Florence, Foligno, Genoa, Girgenti, Lucca, Milan, Modena, Naples, Orvieto, Padua, Paestum, Palermo, Pavia, Perugia, Piazcenza, Pisa, Pompeii, Ravello, Ravenna, Rimini, Rome, Ruvo, Santa Maria del Giudice, Selinus, Siena, Toscanella, Trani, Troja, Venice, Verona, Vetralla, Vicenza, Viterbo, Volterra.
Sites visited included San Nicola, Bari; Troja Cathedral; San Paolo Fuori, Rome; San Pietro, Toscanella; Santa Maria Della Pieve, Arezzo; Siena Cathedral; San Michele, Lucca; Pisa Cathedral; San Marco, Venice; San Lorenzo, Vicenza; San Michele, Pavia; Sant’ Ambrogio and Sant’ Eustorgio, Milan.
1901
Italy (July – September). Included visits to Arezzo, Bologna, Brescia, Burano, Calci, Cavalieri, Cremona, Este, Florence, Genoa, Lombardy, Lucca, Mantua, Massa Marittima, Milan, Murano, Naples, Orvieto, Parma, Pavia, Pisa, Pozzuoli, Rome, Sarzana, Siena, Testa, Torcello, Venice, Verona, Vicenza.
Sites visited included the Cathedral, Tower, San Nicola, San Paolo a Ripa d’Arno and other churches in Pisa; Sant’ Ambrogio, Milan; San Marco, Venice.
1903
Northern France, Austria, and Turkey (July – September). Included visits to Amiens, Angoulême, Bayeux, Beauvais, Caen, Chalons, Chartres, Coutances, Dol, Evreux, Laon, Lisieux, Noyon, Paris, Pontorson, Rheims, Rouen, Soissons; Strassburg; Vienna; Istanbul.
Sites visited included Notre Dame, Paris; Noyon Cathedral; Amiens Cathedral; Church of S. Sophia, S. Mary Diaconissa, Church of the Monastery of the Chora (Korah), Balaban Aja Mesjid, Istanbul; Strassburg Cathedral.
1905
Northern France and Northern Italy (July). Included visits to Amiens, Paris, Milan, Venice, Vicenza.
Sites visited included Amiens Cathedral; San Marco, Venice.
1907
France (May – August). Included visits to Amiens, Beauvais, Chalons, Laon, Noyon, Paris, Rheims, Rouen, St. Quentin.
Sites visited included Amiens Cathedral; St. Loup, Chalons; St. Ouen, Rouen; Notre Dame, Paris.
1910
Italy and France (May – June). Included visits to Florence, Pisa, Paris, Rouen.
Sites visited included Cathedral, Tower, and Baptistry at Pisa; Notre Dame, Paris.
1914
Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Europe, Ireland, and England (February – August). Included visits to Abydos, Cairo, Efou, Illahun, Thebes, Salonica, Istanbul, Vienna, Cologne, Ostend, Aix-la-Chapelle, Dublin, Bristol, Canterbury, Chester, Chichester, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Hexham, Lichfield, Lincoln, London, Peterborough, Salisbury, Tewkesbury, Winchester, Worcester, York.
Sites visited included St. Demetrius, Salonica; St. Sophia, St. Mary Diaconissa, Balaban Aja Mesjid, Istanbul; St. Patrick’s and Christ Church, Dublin; St. John’s, Chester; Temple Church, London; Salisbury Cathedral; Lichfield Cathedral.

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Exhibitions of Survey Photographs

Goodyear’s survey photographs—which he believed scientifically documented the planned irregularities in the construction of churches, cathedrals, and mosques throughout Europe and the Middle East— were the real evidence that upheld his architectural theories. While his measurements and notes gave him material for numerous publications and lecture topics, Goodyear displayed his impressive visual library in exhibitions. Creating enlargements of his survey photographs, he used exhibitions, oftentimes in conjunction with lecture tours and detailed catalogs, as a way of impressing upon the public the validity of his arguments.

Generally, Goodyear received favorable press regarding his photographs. He noted that “on account of their large dimensions, unusual points of view and remarkable details, the photographs are of great value and interest as architectural illustrations of important monuments, even without reference to the special features which they also illustrate.” 12

Chronology of Architectural Refinement Exhibitions:

1896
December 28, 1895 – January 25. Exhibition of the entire collection of enlarged photographs of Ancient and Medieval Italian Architecture and Archaeology, Brooklyn Institute art galleries.
June 9 – 25. Photographs and bromide enlargements, selected galleries of the Brooklyn Art Association.
September 15 – 22. Two hundred enlarged photographs of Italian architecture exhibited at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Liverpool, England.
October 29 – January 16, 1897. Exhibition of the collection of enlarged photographs of ancient and medieval Italian architecture and sculpture, Brooklyn Institute art galleries.
1899 October 1899 – 1908. Installation of the collection of enlarged photographs of ancient and medieval Italian architecture and sculpture, Brooklyn Museum.

This installation expanded over time to include photographs of medieval and renaissance architecture from Goodyear’s additional survey expeditions.
1904 April 21 – May 15. Photographs of the French Cathedrals, Boston Public Library (86 enlargements).
1905
April 3 – June 26. Exhibition in Rome organized under the auspices of the Architectural Society of Rome. The space included 150 feet of linear hanging space and 40 enlarged photographs.
September 6 – November 11. Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh under the auspices of the Edinburgh Architectural Association and with the support of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Goodyear prepared for this exhibition with about 300 photographs covering 550 feet of linear wall space and 60 large cartoons of surveys, plans, and elevations. Forty-seven of the exhibition pieces were enlargements that were made in Edinburgh from the negatives taken in Europe in 1905. Goodyear produced a detailed, illustrated catalog to the exhibition, entitled Edinburgh Exhibition of Architectural Refinements, in addition to participating in dinners and events and giving numerous lectures.
1909 Installed April and May. Exhibition of architectural surveys and photographs, Brooklyn Museum East Gallery.

Comprising approximately 630 photographs and covering some 2,000 linear feet, this exhibition was an expansion of the installation begun in October 1899. In a review of the show, the New York Times was duly impressed:

The cathedrals photographed are all in Northern France, Italy, or Constantinople, but the range even within these limits is great, and the photographs tell extraordinary stories concerning their subjects. . . . It may be noted that Prof. Goodyear is at least entitled to the honor of being the first investigator to devise adequate methods of ascertaining photographically the deflections of vertical lines in cathedral architecture. 13
1912 November 9. Opening of Avery Hall, Columbia University. 14

The first two floors were occupied by the Avery architectural library and the remaining two by the School of Architecture. For the opening reception, Goodyear installed an exhibition of enlarged photographs, many of which were taken during the 1910 survey expedition and included Milan and Notre Dame Cathedrals and the two cathedrals of Pisa.
1914
May. Exhibition of enlargements and drawings, National Museum in Dublin.

At the end of his 1914 expedition, Goodyear traveled to Ireland to give a short course of lectures and to set up an exhibition. The exhibition was arranged by the Classical Association and the Architectural Societies of Ireland.

October 27 – November 4. Exhibition of photographs and surveys of medieval buildings at the Brooklyn Museum for meeting of the Architectural League of New York City.

The exhibition contained 466 photographs and 48 measured drawings of plans, sections, and elevations. Images included St. Sophia in Constantinople; Notre Dame, Paris; Amiens Cathedral; and Pisa Cathedral.

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1915
January 9 – February 7. Exhibition of enlargements, Fine Arts Department, Yale University.
March 3 – 10. Exhibition of enlargements, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Under the auspices of the T-Square Club and the Philadelphia Society of the American Institute of Architects. The exhibition was open for one week and included two lectures.
1918 July 14 – November 4. French Cathedrals and Churches in the War Zone, Brooklyn Museum.

This exhibition included 68 enlargements for Notre Dame, 55 for Amiens and 25 for Rheims, and enlargements of cathedrals in Laon, Noyon, Beauvais, and Soissons. A reviewer noted in The Sun that “Prof. Goodyear’s researches have the disturbing effect of calling attention to some of the lost arts of building—does it not at least hint that the restorations into which an eager world is about to plunge, once the war is terminated, should be entered into with a degree of caution?”

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1919 French Cathedrals and Churches in the War Zone. Exhibition traveled to institutions such as the Detroit Institute of Art (January), Cincinnati Art Museum (April), and the Art Museum of Toronto.
1921 November 22 – December 12. Enlargements at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Architectural Refinements Publications

During the time he was traveling and organizing exhibitions, Goodyear published many articles, letters, and reviews in scientific, architectural, and literary journals and newspapers. While he had published full-length works on art history, Goodyear did not publish his first book devoted entirely to refinements until 1912. Goodyear described Greek Refinements as a “long-needed addition to the knowledge of Greek temple architecture, considered as a wholly independent study. Up to date there has been no book for general readers on the subject of the Greek refinements.” 17

Many reviewers were impressed with Greek Refinements and remarked on his exhaustive research and the numerous illustrations which “included 120 subjects, among them a number of photographs of the Greek horizontal curves in the South Italian and Sicilian Greek temples, which are the only extant photographs on this subject for these temples.” 18 Goodyear also received many congratulatory and laudatory letters from friends and colleagues.

After the publication of Greek Refinements, Goodyear planned to complete a work on medieval refinements using the extensive notes and photographs from his survey expeditions. In response to Salomon Reinach’s review of Greek Refinements, Goodyear wrote that “you have read between the lines of my book as no other critic has, realizing that I was laying a foundation for later work if my life is spared.” 19 Outside observers noted as well that “though he has published magazine articles on his results, his magnum opus is still to appear. The present volume may indeed be considered as a first installment, since a thorough treatment of Greek practice is essential as a foundation, specially in view of the possibility of a direct historical transmission of the horizontal curvatures.” 20

Due to responsibilities at the Museum, lecturing and exhibition tours, and lack of funding, a book on medieval refinements was to remain a permanently pending project. Goodyear’s friends, including artist Wilford S. Conrow and art historian A. Kingsley Porter, endeavored to publish a compilation of his research work on this topic with support from the Brooklyn Museum after his death, but the definitive final book was never produced. 21

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Response to Goodyear’s Work

Goodyear’s work at the Brooklyn Museum and his architectural research gained him international recognition. He received many honors from educational, art, and architectural institutions. Among these were an honorary Master of Art degree from Yale University in 1904; honorary membership in the Architectural Associations of Rome and Edinburgh (1904–5), Royal Academies of Milan and Venice (1906–7), Society of Architects, London (1905); corresponding membership in the American Institute of Architects (1907); honorary and corresponding membership of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (1915), and membership in the Brooklyn Society of Artists (1919).

In addition to receiving support and praise for his architectural research from many of his colleagues—including Professor John Beverly Robinson of Washington University, St. Louis, who incorporated the study of refinements in his architectural courses—Goodyear did encounter some criticism. One of his most adamant critics was the English archaeologist, John Bilson. In a series of articles in the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Goodyear and Bilson debated the finer points of architectural refinements. For example, John Bilson asserted that “the deviations from the normal in Amiens Cathedral which Mr. Goodyear believes to be intentionally constructed ‘refinements’ are nothing of the kind; they are merely the accidental results of movements which have taken place in the structure, of which movements conclusive proof is afforded both by the recorded history and by the present condition of the building.” 22 Goodyear replied that Bilson’s argument “is a very sad indication of his prejudice and bias, and of his want of discretion, that he should be willing to base a wholesale condemnation of the given architectural investigation on the assertion that I have made a mistaken observation in one cathedral.” 23

The legacy of Goodyear’s life’s work can be appreciated in the building designs of some of his contemporaries. For instance, architects G. L. Heins and C. Grant LaFarge designed the interior plans for the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York with refinements specifically utilizing Goodyear’s observations. This was the first modern large-scale architectural work that employed refinements. 24 Architect William Welles Bosworth announced his intention to introduce asymmetries into his design for the façade of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, a house for J. D. Rockefeller, Jr., and buildings on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The architect R. M. Butler applied refinements in New Church in Newport, County Mayo, Ireland, in 1917. C. L. Borie applied them to the plan of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 25 as did Donald Robb and Philip Hubert Frohman in Washington Cathedral, and archtiects Ralph Addams Cram and Robert Tappan in the Swedenborgian Church in Bryn Athyn.

The construction of the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem at Bryn Athyn outside Philadelphia was an important event in Goodyear’s life. During its construction from approximately 1912 to 1917, architects Ralph Adams Cram and Robert Tappan, and attorney Raymond Pitcairn argued over the utilization of architectural refinements. Cram initially resisted their application in the church but eventually was convinced by Tappan and Pitcairn. In a letter to William Crocker, the editor of American Architect, Goodyear writes about the dedication ceremony of the church, which had occurred a few days earlier. He states that

it was a memorable occasion for me, considering the ridicule and even malice to which I have been subjected, and the wide-spread influential denials still current in England and in France that the Middle Ages ever purposely constructed churches of the kind which is now seen at Bryn Athyn. On the whole, I am inclined to think that my presence at the dedication was the greatest event in my life. 26

William H. Goodyear died in 1923 of pneumonia and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Wilford S. Conrow, who had painted his portrait in 1916 [BMA, Department of Painting and Sculpture, 25.182], wrote a memorial to his life and work for the Brooklyn Museum Quarterly of July 1923. In this piece Conrow further emphasizes and praises the importance of the discovery of architectural refinements in Goodyear’s life and the value of his work to the fields of architecture and art. He concludes by stating that “our present duty, the responsibility that we must accept, is to preserve and spread this precious, long-lost knowledge in order that it may play its full, qualifying role in the creative arts of the future.” 27

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Administrative Notes

Access tools

In addition to this finding aid, two database tables have been developed to provide more detailed access to the collection: folder-level descriptions and an inventory of photographs.

The folder description database provides free-text search capability to brief synopses of folder contents for all materials in the collection. Thus, researchers may specify names, topics, titles, and types of materials (e.g., clippings, brochures) and receive a list of folders whose descriptions contain those terms. The date range information included in the database allows researchers to select materials from a particular part of Goodyear’s life. It should be noted that although the folder descriptions are extensive, they are by no means exhaustive. Only information deemed of some significance was recorded. A printout of the folder descriptions is included in the finding aid.

The primary access point for the photographic images is the original annotations by Goodyear or printed information regarding the image. When necessary, brief descriptive captions were created. Each photograph was given a numerical identifier, oftentimes in addition to a number given by Goodyear.

Processing, arrangement, and description

The project archivist observed the following processing guidelines: folded materials were flattened; deteriorating paper and newsprint were photocopied and removed; oversize materials were placed in appropriate containers; photographs were removed and placed in photograph storage; all materials removed were replaced by a separation sheet noting their disposition. Due to their fragile condition, pages in the scrapbooks [4.1] were photocopied and the originals housed in separate folders.

At the start of the project, the collection was found in folders, but disorganized. The original order of the papers was difficult to detect, with the exception of series 3. 28 An organizational scheme was created which was intended to provide a framework based on the logic of the materials, and the materials were arranged to fit this scheme.

Series and subseries titles reflect the imposed scheme; folder titles, whenever possible, transcribe information from the original folder or enclosure. Folder descriptions were created during processing and are intended to provide information on significant correspondents and topics covered.

In addition to binders of vintage photographs, sets of prints were created for images which have corresponding negatives, including the 1895 survey expedition, 1900 Paris Exposition, and select images from the 1903 and 1914 survey expeditions.

Terminology and Abbreviations

Folder descriptions generally use Goodyear’s own terms for names of sites, cities, and individuals. Because he sometimes varied spellings for names of churches and towns in Europe, the folder-level descriptions and inventory of photographs reflect these inconsistencies.

Goodyear also employed various terms to describe specific types of refinements. In order to make searching more effective, the term architectural refinements generally refers to all types in the folder descriptions. In rare cases, widening refinements and Greek refinements have been used in the folder descriptions when referred to as such in the collection. Other terms that can be found in the collection include architectural deflections, temperamental architecture, irregularities, curvatures, purposed deflections, constructive widening, asymmetries, optical refinements, and medieval refinements.

The following abbreviations are used in the Guide:
l.f. linear feet
DB document box
PB print box
SB card box

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Scope and Content

Goodyear Archival Collection
Dates 1874–1940 (bulk 1890–1923)
Extent 67 l.f.
Organization:
Series 1 General correspondence
Series 2 Research and writings
  2.1: papers
  2.2: bound books
Series 3 Department of Fine Arts
  3.1: correspondence
  3.2: Avery Collection
Series 4 Scrapbooks
Series 5 Posthumous
Series 6 Visual materials
  6.1: photographs, lantern slides, and negatives
  6.2: plates

The Goodyear Archival Collection 29 documents the professional life of the Brooklyn Museum’s first curator of fine arts and, according to some, America’s first architectural historian. 30 The collection provides information on his curatorial responsibilities at the museum and traces the progress of his architectural research—research that was partly funded by the Museum but was separate from his role as curator. Materials stem almost exclusively from the years of his tenure at the Brooklyn Museum (1890–1923), although there is some earlier material relating to his scholarly work. The collection includes records created after his death by friends and colleagues, including correspondence pertaining to the posthumous publication of Goodyear’s writings on medieval refinements, and Wilford Conrow’s memorial to Goodyear. There is very little personal information regarding home life and nonprofessional or nonscholarly activities. A few references to family can be found in the collection, such as to his father Charles and his legacy, and obituaries of his wife Kate and cousin Nelson.

The collection is comprised of a wide variety of materials, including correspondence, expedition diaries, notes, lectures, reports, writings (both published and unpublished), photographs, plates of photographs, lantern slides, clippings, and scrapbooks. The Archives’ artifact collection (S09) also includes Goodyear’s surveyor’s rod and a tripod, instruments which helped Goodyear record measurements of architectural construction during his survey expeditions.

Correspondence makes up the bulk of the collection and discloses fundamental information on Goodyear’s work. Goodyear’s institutional responsibilities are reflected in letters exchanged with Museum personnel, trustees, and donors of collections. These records reveal both his administrative responsibilities and his impact on the development of the Museum’s mission and collections.

Goodyear also corresponded with many colleagues and supporters who were good friends, among them archaeologist and art historian A. Kingsley Porter, artist Wilford Conrow, American Architect editor William Crocker, and patron Emma Lewis. In these letters he expresses interest and support for others’ work, in addition to discussing his own professional activities, frustrations with his career, and plans for his research on architectural refinements—an area of study that he was devoted to throughout his career.

Goodyear’s scholarly pursuits on refinements are revealed throughout the entire collection. Correspondence, notes, typescripts, articles, expedition diaries, and scrapbooks all provide a detailed account of the development of his research. In addition, there are numerous photographs of cathedrals and mosques (many taken by Goodyear himself), illustrating his theory of architectural refinements and providing a record of medieval church architecture as it appeared between 1895 and 1914.

The collection also includes an extensive set of photographs and lantern slides of buildings, monuments, and other views taken during the Paris Exposition of 1900, presenting a visual tour of the exposition with little supporting written documentation.

Supplementary records from Goodyear’s tenure, particularly those relating to departmental functions and art objects, may be found in archival records from the Registrar’s Office, Department of Asian Art, and Department of Painting and Sculpture. Some object-related records remain in permanently active departmental files.

Additional Goodyear records can be found in other repositories. Of note are the A. Kingsley Porter papers at Harvard University and the John Weir Papers and Charles Sheldon Hastings Papers at Yale University. The National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, holds 199 silver gelatin paper print enlargements of the 1900 Paris Exposition photographs. Five hundred and sixty-four enlargements of architectural refinements photographs (1895–1905), which Goodyear used in exhibitions, were donated by the BIAS to the National Museum of American History in 1901 and then transferred to the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, in 1974.

The majority of Goodyear’s publications are held by the Brooklyn Museum Libraries.

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Series Descriptions

Series 1: General correspondence (incoming and outgoing)

Dates 1887–1923, n.d. (bulk 1903–1923)
Extent 3 DB (1.25 l.f.)
Organization

Arranged alphabetically

Correspondence in the Goodyear collection focuses largely on Goodyear’s architectural refinements research. He exchanged letters exploring many pivotal episodes and projects in his life with an international group of prominent architects, scholars, art historians, book dealers, publishers, editors, museum administrators, and representatives from scholarly and professional organizations. He reflected on his survey expeditions to Europe, discussed his exhibitions, and corresponded with editors of scholarly and architectural journals regarding his articles and publications. These letters also record his reactions to the application of architectural refinements in contemporary buildings, and to the critics of his research such as John Bilson and E. S. Prior.

This series contains many letters to and from individuals who played important roles throughout Goodyear’s life. These supporters and friends include his patron Emma (Mrs. August) Lewis, with whom he discusses his survey trips and career at the Brooklyn Museum; A. Kingsley Porter, an archaeologist and art historian, who both offered support to Goodyear and accepted advice and guidance from him; Wilford S. Conrow, who painted his portrait and composed his memorial in the Brooklyn Museum Quarterly; William H. Crocker, the editor of the journal American Architect, who was an early supporter and publisher of Goodyear’s articles; Jay Hambidge, whose work on Greek design Goodyear strongly supported; and Raymond Pitcairn, an attorney who was involved in the building of the Bryn Athyn Church and who supported the use of refinements. Of note is an early letter to American Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour in which Goodyear discusses his developing theory of architectural refinements in medieval cathedrals. He writes that “I am also very much in need of someone to spend an hour in Pisa and tell me then whether I am a lunatic—by looking at leaning columns with bases ground off.” 31

Goodyear also corresponded throughout his life with colleagues and admirers of his father Charles, the scientist who invented the process of vulcanizing rubber. There are many letters from individuals who wanted to memorialize his father through art or publication.

This collection of correspondence also includes notes, photographs, postcards, and clippings. For additional correspondence regarding his research see series 3.1 and 4.1.

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Series 2: Research and writings

Dates 1874–1920, n.d.
Extent 1.5 DB, 4 inches legal size, 7 volumes (1.75 l.f.)
Organization
2.1: papers
2.2: bound volumes

This series contains Goodyear’s research material regarding his work on architectural refinements, including drafts of articles, notes and measurements, checklists, illustrations and photographs, and clippings by and about Goodyear and his architectural theory. The survey expedition diaries, his writings, and information on the preparations for major exhibitions of his cathedral photographs in Edinburgh and Dublin, are of particular note.

The materials have been divided into two subseries based on format. For further information relating to Goodyear’s research, see series 4.1.

Subseries 2.1: papers

Dates 1874–1920, n.d.
Extent 1.5 DB, 4 inches legal size (1 l.f.)
Organization

Arranged chronologically

This subseries consists of nonbound materials, including research notes and checklists, drafts of publications, and published articles by and about Goodyear that reveal the progression of his research. Of note are drafts of works that consolidated his research on the Pisa Cathedral and other medieval cathedrals; illustration layouts and a draft table of contents for his first full-length published work on the early manifestation of refinements, Greek Refinements (1912); lists of photographs and expenditures from Goodyear’s survey expeditions of 1903, 1907, and 1910; and notes and lecture information relating to the Edinburgh exhibition of refinement photographs (1905).

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Subseries 2.2: bound volumes

Dates 1887–1907
Extent 7 volumes (7.5 l.f.)
Organization

Arranged chronologically

This subseries contains diaries from Goodyear’s survey expedition trips to Europe in 1901, 1903, and 1907. In these volumes, Goodyear recorded information such as lists of illustrations; notes; agendas and travel schedules; names of sites visited; measurements; refinements observed; evaluations of photographs and negatives; names of individuals contacted during his travels, such as Museum personnel, engineers, and architects; personal information regarding his health; and a list of Museum lectures for the 1901–1902 season.

In addition, this subseries includes three volumes of notes for Goodyear’s 1891 publication The Grammar of the Lotus, which he used to formulate and support his theories regarding the lotus form in ornamentation. These volumes contain notes and illustrations of architectural details, forms, and ornaments. This group of records also contains a volume listing names and addresses of Museum personnel, scholars, architects, and friends; a schedule of appointments and lectures; and financial information.

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Series 3: Department of Fine Arts

Dates 1895–1922, n.d.
Extent 2.5 DB, 2 volumes (1.3 l.f.)
Organization
3.1: correspondence
3.2: Avery Collection

This series consists of correspondence written during Goodyear’s term as curator of fine arts at the Brooklyn Museum and contains information relating to his role at the Museum. It provides details on objects offered to the Brooklyn Museum, Goodyear’s administrative responsibilities, and the working relationship between the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the Museum.

Divided into two groups of records, the first is a chronological set of letters written by and to Goodyear regarding his curatorial work and the development of the department, galleries, and collections. The second group comprises correspondence and other writings related to the art collector Samuel Putnam Avery, focusing largely on his donation of Chinese cloisonné enamels and the publication of the Avery Collection catalog.

Subseries 3.1: correspondence

Dates 1895–1922
Extent 1.5 DB, 2 volumes (.9 l.f.)
Organization

Arranged chronologically

Many of the letters in this subseries are written to or from the director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Franklin W. Hooper; Curators-in-Chief Alfred G. Mayer (1904), Frederic A. Lucas (1904–1910); and Edward L. Morris (1911–1912); and Museum trustee A. Augustus Healy, among others.

These letters reveal information about Goodyear’s responsibilities in various aspects of Museum business. Included are topics such as the maintenance of collections; varnishing and hanging of paintings; ordering cases for objects; upkeep of the galleries; staff issues; developments in the department; and potential gifts, loans, and purchases of works of art. Art acquisitions of particular note include a collection of china donated by Alfred Duane Pell, works of art given by A. Augustus Healy, and books and photographs purchased from Alfred P. Maudslay.

Some correspondence in this subseries overlaps with letters in series 1.1 and 3.2: letters regarding the Avery Collection catalog, 32 and a few letters from Goodyear addressed to fellow architects and scholars such as Henry de Geymuller and Camille Enlart regarding his architectural refinement publications, photography exhibitions, lectures, and survey work.

This subseries also contains two letterpress books of chronologically sorted outgoing letters from Goodyear to various art collectors, Museum personnel, architects, and scholars. Some of the correspondence in the bound volumes is duplicated in files; the loose copies were retained because they are more legible.

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Subseries 3.2: Avery Collection

Dates 1909–1921, n.d.
Extent 1 DB (.4 l.f.)
Organization

Arranged chronologically and by format

Samuel Putnam Avery (1847–1920), a prominent art dealer who supported various cultural institutions, was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He donated many objects to the Brooklyn Museum, including enamels, textiles, and medals. In the year of his death a newspaper article noted that his “collection of Chinese cloisonné and B. C. Chinese bronzes at the Brooklyn Institute Museum is the largest joint collection in this country.” 33

This subseries contains correspondence and object documentation, including drafts of the Avery Collection catalog written by John Getz. The letters trace the acquisition and installation of Avery’s gift of cloisonné, pekin, and champléve enamels; bronzes and gold bronzes; wall vases; and his gifts of medals and textiles.

The correspondence also touches upon Goodyear’s architectural research, including brief references to the Bryn Athyn Church, Greek Refinements, and the Brooklyn Museum’s architectural refinements exhibition. The tone of the correspondence is generally quite warm and friendly and Goodyear was often invited by Avery to visit his vacation home on Button Island at Lake Champlain in the Adirondacks.

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Series 4: Scrapbooks

Dates 1891–1928
Extent 7.5 DB (3.2 l.f.)
Organization

Arranged chronologically

The ten scrapbooks found in this series contain documentation collected by Goodyear to chronicle his professional life and architectural research. Through clippings, reviews, correspondence, promotional pamphlets and announcements, invitations, and photographs, the scrapbooks furnish an account of the major events in Goodyear’s life.

The correspondence, in particular, reveals his close professional relationships with other prominent architects and theorists. Many of the letters express praise and support for Goodyear’s architectural theories. There is also correspondence with Museum staff regarding Goodyear’s professional work and objects he acquired during his tenure.

The scrapbooks hold an extensive collection of articles and clippings—many collected by a clipping service—from local and international newspapers and journals. These articles from largely mainstream periodicals provide information on Goodyear’s career, the Brooklyn Museum, and his architectural theories, while offering a glimpse into how the public perceived his accomplishments.

Included, as well, are a few clippings that reveal Goodyear’s life and interests outside his architectural research and career. These consist of obituaries of family members, articles regarding the suicide of two elderly friends in Venice, and articles on Charles Goodyear and the family’s successful entrepreneurial lineage.

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Series 5: Posthumous

Dates 1923–1940, n.d.
Extent 1 DB (.4 l.f.)
Organization

Arranged chronologically

This series contains records created after Goodyear’s death in 1923. Materials include correspondence between Wilford Conrow, A. Kingsley Porter, and others regarding Goodyear’s death and the posthumous publication of Goodyear’s work on medieval refinements; a draft of Medieval Refinements with notes; a draft of Conrow’s Brooklyn Museum Quarterly memorial; and clippings regarding Goodyear’s death and his father’s legacy. Included, as well, is a poem of remembrance entitled To My Father, written by Goodyear’s daughter, Rosalie.

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Series 6: Visual materials

Dates 1893–1914, n.d.
Extent 15 PB, 17 vols, 20.5 DB, 4 SB, 15 drawers (56 l.f.)
Organization
6.1: photographs, lantern slides, and negatives
6.2: plates

This series contains materials which provide the visual key to Goodyear’s work and architectural theories: images of medieval cathedrals, churches, and mosques; artworks in museums abroad; views of the 1900 Paris Exposition; and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The photographs, many taken by Goodyear and photographers Joseph Hawkes and John McKecknie, demonstrate high technical quality. The architectural photographs often show rich detail, remarkable clarity, and unique perspectives while illustrating the refinements sought out by Goodyear. These images are valuable not only as evidence of architectural refinements but also because they provide a visual record of medieval churches and cathedrals before the world wars.

Subseries 6.1: photographs, lantern slides, and negatives

Dates 1893–1914, n.d.
Extent 5,780 images. Photographs (1,803 images): 17 vols, 13 PB, 1 DB. Negatives (884 images): 19 DB, 4 SB, 2 PB. Lantern slides (3,093 images): 15 drawers. (55.8 l.f.)
Organization

Arranged by format; chronologically, by item number, or by subject

This subseries contains photographic prints, lantern slides, and negatives of Goodyear’s survey expeditions to Europe, Turkey, Egypt, and Greece. The images include interior and exterior views of churches, cathedrals, and mosques which display architectural refinements, often showing the plumb lines and surveyor’s rod that Goodyear used to gain accurate measurements. The series also includes a set of negatives from his tour of the Paris Exposition in 1900; negatives of art objects within Italian museums; and black and white and hand-colored lantern slides of various artworks, sites, and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which were used for lectures. Many of the photographs and lantern slides are annotated with technical details and descriptions.

Housed with this subseries are related photographs removed from other series, where they were found in context with materials such as correspondence and articles.

Formats found in this subseries include glass negatives, copy negatives, 5 × 7″ vintage prints, 8 × 10″ vintage and modern prints, oversize vintage prints, and 3 × 4″ lantern slides.

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Subseries 6.2: plates

Dates 1891–1911, n.d.
Extent .5 DB, oversize (.21 l.f.)
Organization

Arranged chronologically

This subseries consists of plates of photographs and illustrations used in Goodyear’s publications and articles on architectural refinements, many of which are reproductions of the photographs taken during his survey expeditions. Included are the ground plan of St. John the Divine, interior views of French churches, and an interior view of his photography exhibition at the Boston Public Library.

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Folder descriptions

Series 1: General correspondence

General corresp [1.1.001]: A. (1905-1921)

Corresp with Miss Akins re play 'The Varying Shore'; 'American Architect' re publishing articles, controversy with Mr. Statham in 'The Builder'; American Association of Museums; Archaeological Institute of America re contribution of article; Architectural League of New York; Art and Archaeology; Arts Club; Associazione Artistica fra i Cultori di Architettura re architectural refinements (in French).

General corresp [1.1.002]: B. (1906-1923)

Corresp with Peleo Bacci (Superintendent of Monuments, Pisa), Albertus Barkes re 'Greek Refinements'; Berlin Photographic Co. re ordering photographs of Athens; C.H. Blackall re widening refinements in the foundations of the San Marco Campanile; Camille Boito (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Milan) re architectural refinements; William Bosworth re architectural refinements in Hotel Belmont, design of Rockefeller House; Christian Brinton; Brooklyn Daily Times re contribution of article on Museum; Mr. Butler re widening refinements.

General corresp [1.1.003]: Batsford. (1907-1914)

Corresp with Herbert Batsford (B.T. Batsford, Publisher & Bookseller, London) re publication, editorial & printing work; RIBA Journal; architectural refinements (Church of St. Irene in Constantinople, Amiens); articles; replies to criticism from John Bilson and E.S. Prior; Auguste Choisy; G. Northover; Frank W. Deas; Camille Enlart; Revue de l’Art Chretien.

General corresp [1.1.004]: Berry. (1913)

Corresp with Edward Berry re architectural refinements, publications.

General corresp [1.1.005]: Borie, C.L. (1921-1922)

Corresp with C.L. Borie, Jr. re architectural plans for the Philadelphia Museum of Art; architectural refinements.

General corresp [1.1.006]: Brehier, L. (1920)

Corresp with L. Brehier re publication in France; book on Rheims Cathedral; architectural refinements & examples (St. Mark’s, Amiens). Notes. Some material undated. Includes French.

General corresp [1.1.007]: Browne. (1913-1922)

Corresp with Henry Browne (Classical Association of Ireland & University College, Dublin) re lectures & exhibition on architectural refinements, publications. Postcard, St. Andrea, Levanto.

General corresp [1.1.008]: Bryn Athyn Church. (1915-1919)

Corresp with Ralph Cram, Raymond Pitcairn, W.H. Crocker, K.C. Acton re architectural refinements and design of Bryn Athyn Church. Notes. Dedication service booklet. Article typescript. Postcards. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.009]: C. (1908-1920)

Corresp with 'The Craftsman' (Gustav Stickley, editor) re exhibition; Ralph Cram re architectural refinements in St. David’s Cathedral, Wales; Eug. Cobbaert, L. Cloquet ('Revue de l’Art Chretien') re article on architectural refinements in Rheims Cathedral (excerpts).

General corresp [1.1.010]: Carnegie Institution. (1905-1906)

Application for funding from Carnegie Institution (Robert S. Woodward, President). Letters of support from Edinburgh Architectural Association, Society of Architects, Archaeological Institute of America, Auguste Choisy, Baron Henry de Geymuller; letters re costs of Edinburgh Exhibition of Architectural Refinements. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.011]: Choisy. (1906-1907)

Corresp with Auguste Choisy re architectural refinements; Temple at Cori. In French. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.012]: Comes, John T. (1920)

Corresp wwith John T. Comes re architectural refinement publications; Bryn Athyn Church (Ralph Cram). Letters to Rev. Richard H. Tierney.

General corresp [1.1.013]: Conrow. (1909-1923)

Biography of Goodyear for Yale Alumni Weekly (includes Charles Goodyear). Corresp with Wilford S. Conrow re portrait painting of Goodyear; submission of portrait to Corcoran Gallery (C. Powell Minnigerode, Director) for William A. Clark Prize award and exhibition; architectural refinement publications; exhibitions; Washington Cathedral; professional title; A. Kingsley Porter; George Parmly Day (Yale University Press); Brooklyn Museum politics; Maine vacation. Letter to Chicago Tribune re portrait. Letter from C.L. Borie, Jr. re architectural refinements in Philadelphia Museum of Art. Publishers announcement for 'Greek Refinements'. Some material undated. For additional corresp see P&S file #1326 Conrow 1914-1928.

General corresp [1.1.014]: Cox. (1909-1911)

Corresp with C.F. Cox re Yale University’s Trowbridge lecture course on architectural refinements; supporters; critics including John Bilson, Georges Durand, Lefevre-Pontalis, Count de Lasteyrie.

General corresp [1.1.015]: Crocker. (03/1910-11/1917)

Corresp with William H. Crocker ('American Architect', ed.) re modern application of refinements including re C.B.J. Snyder and New York City girls school, architects Edgar A. Matthews & Fayville in San Francisco, Bryn Athyn (Ralph Cram & Robert Tappan, architects, Raymond Pitcairn, attorney), St. Helenas Episcopal Church in Cincinnati (William C. Hazlett, architect), house for J.D. Rockefeller, Jr., Western Union Building, 5th Avenue Baptist Church (William W. Bosworth); corresp re publications including Pisa Cathedral, Avery cloisonne collection catalog, labelling Egyptian collection, Yale University Press (George Parmly Day), A. Kingsley Porter and 'Lombard Architecture', university courses, A. L. Frothingham, Russell Sturgis' 'History of Architecture', articles and reviews, R. M. Butler and 'Irish Builder', professional title.

General corresp [1.1.016]: Crocker. (1917-1919)

Corresp with William H. Crocker re modern application of architectural refinements; Bryn Athyn (Raymond Pitcairn, lawyer, Ralph Carm, architect); articles; cathedrals & churches; R.M. Butler and 'Irish Builder'; exhibition; lectures; Auguste Choisy. List of architectural refinement theory supporters, publications.

General corresp [1.1.017]: Crocker. (02/1919-05/1921)

Corresp with William H. Crocker re Bryn Athyn and dedication (Raymond Pitcairn, lawyer, Ralph Cram, architect); university lectures; William H. Fox and support for publication; articles; A. Kingsley Porter; De Lasteyrie; architectural refinement criticism; modern application of architectural refinements including Washington Cathedral (Donald Robb), Willis Polk, W. L. Woollett constructing buildings with refinements; W. F. Middleton lectures; 'Foundations of Classic Architecture' (Langford Warren); Corcoran Gallery exhibition, lecture; churches in the war zone; O. Speir (National Terra Cotta Society); Goodyear publications 1920; Jay Hambidge theories; League of New York Artists.

General corresp [1.1.018]: Crocker. (05/1921-05/1922)

Corresp with William H. Crocker re Jay Hambidge theories; articles; Yale Alumni Weekly 1/1921; Yale Memorial Quadrangle, Harkness Memorial Tower article (George Nichols); modern application of architectural refinements including E.M. Butler ('Irish Builder'), Philadelphia Museum of Art (C.L. Borie, Jr.), Dublin exhibition, F.W. Eddy (New York World), architects Helmle and Corbett.

General corresp [1.1.019]: D. (1899-1914)

Corresp with Nicola D’Ascenzo re T-Square Club lecture, exhibition; Milton J. Davies re lectures; H.W. Desmond re William Welles Bosworth and architectural refinements in 5th Avenue Baptist Church (Rockefeller Church).

General corresp [1.1.020]: Day. (1913)

Corresp with George Parmly Day re request of President A. Augustus Healy for time to write, publish; Yale University Press; 'Greek Refinements'. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.021]: Deas. (1905-1913)

Corresp with Frank W. Deas re critics and supporters of architectural refinement theory including Enlart, Bilson, Prior, Traquair, Durand, De Lasteyrie; articles in publications including 'The Builder', 'Architectural Record', 'American Architect', RIBA Journal; architectural refinements in Amiens, Rheims, Diaconissa, Hollyrood; Edinburgh exhibition; 'Greek Refinements'. Notes. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.022]: DeForest (legal-size folder). (n.d.)

Corresp with Robert DeForest re position at Metropolitan Museum of Art; work & academic experience; honors; Amelia B. Edwards; Professor Carl Friederichs. Goodyear biographical notes (chronology).

General corresp [1.1.023]: De Grave Sells. (1913)

Corresp with Ing. C. de Grave Sells re architectural refinements; Goodyear publications; 'Greek Refinements'; Karl W. Hiersemann.

General corresp [1.1.024]: E. (1913-1922)

Corresp with George Eggers (Art Institute of Chicago) re publications on architectural refinements; Gustavus A. Eisen; Ruby Elliot re Rev. Wilbur L. Coswell and Mr. Ritter of Boston.

General corresp [1.1.025]: expedition & survey. (1907)

Corresp with Jesse Haworth re leave of absence, John Bilson and RIBA Journal, Amiens, Herbert Batsford; A. Augustus Healy re agenda, observation at Cori; George Foster Peabody re publication of research. Corresp with Frederic A. Lucas re Brooklyn Museum work; surveys; publications; expenses; London & Paris research; Auguste Choisy; Salomon Reinach; architectural refinement photographs; John Bilson; RIBA Journal (Locke, Collcutt, Hare); English architectural experts (Paul Waterhouse; W.R. Lethaby; R. Phene Spiers; Sir Aston Webb; John Belcher; Reginald Blomfield; Banister Fletcher; G.A.T. Middleton; Robert Hobart; Frank W. Deas; Mr. and Mrs. Haworth; Herbert Batsford, Statham); reflections on expedition & research.

General corresp [1.1.026]: F. (1910-1922)

Corresp with A.L. Frothingham re architectural refinement theories in 'History of Architecture' (by Russell Sturgis).

General corresp [1.1.027]: Frohman & Robb. (1919-1920)

Corresp with Donald Robb and Philip Hubert Frohman re Raymond Pitcairn & Bryn Athyn church; architectural refinements in Washington Cathedral; publications; Cathedral of St. John the Divine; exhibitions of refinement photographs and French cathedrals in the war zone; R.M. Butler & Newport Church; Wilford S. Conrow; lectures; Notre-Dame; refinement exhibitions 1904-1915. Corresp between Philip H. Frohman & Rev. G.C.F. Bratenahl re exhibition. Booklet: Washington Cathedral.

General corresp [1.1.028]: G. (1906-1920)

Corresp with Henry von (de) Geymuller re publications, architectural refinements in Church of S. Francois at Lausanne; Cass Gilbert re architectural refinements exhibition, Edinburgh, critics; Architect Edward B. Green re Greek refinements in Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY); Grolier Club; A. Gunzburg re Goodyear’s publications. Pamphlet: 'De L’Abus du Mot de Renaissance' by Geymuller.

General corresp [1.1.029]: Garnault. (1912-1913)

Corresp with Paul Garnault re architectural refinements; publications; translating Professor Frey’s edition of Vasari; A. Kingsley Porter book; Auguste Choisy’s 'History of Architecture'. Article: 'Perche Pende il Campanile di Pisa'. In French and English. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.030]: Goodyear, Charles. (1913-1923)

Corresp with International Rubber and Allied Trades Exhibition re William H. Goodyear’s participation on Honorary Advisory committee, submission to 'Who’s Who in the Rubber World'; H.C. Pearson, John P. Lyons (India Rubber World) re gift of 'Greek Refinements', rubber museum in Washington in honor of Charles, reprint of 'Gum Elastic'; Clark Dooley re rubber museum; B.F. Goodrich Company re information for book 'The Reign of Rubber' by W.C. Geer, 'Gum Elastic', Charles Goodyear statue by Tonnetti (St. Louis Exposition); Dr. W.C. Geer re 'The Reign of Rubber', William H. Goodyear’s response to book; Jacques Boyer re photo of Charles; U.S. Rubber Company (E.S. Underhill, Col. S.P. Colt) re pamphlet, 'The Romance of Rubber', New York University Hall of Fame, published biographical note, Tonnetti sculpture; Louis C. Page re Wildman’s 'Famous Leaders of Industry'.

General corresp [1.1.031]: H. (1895-1923)

Corresp with Alfred C. Hadon re Cecil C. Brewer; Haldeman-Julius Company; Edith Hall re late [Mirvan] III and geometric art, 'Grammar of the Lotus', design motifs; Professor Hamlin re Hamlin publications; Mabel Hardy; William C. Hazlett re application of architectural refinements. Copy of letter by G.L. Heins re support. Corresp with William Helbrun re availability of 'Grammar of the Lotus'; Elizabeth A. Herrick re Dickens Fellowship annual dinner at National Arts Club; Robert Hobart ('Architect and Contract Reporter') re article; W.J. Holland (Carnegie Museum) re eyesight of aborigines; Howard Female College (Lorraine Sullivan) re donation of books. Postcard of Italian site.

General corresp [1.1.032]: Hackett. (1911-1919)

Corresp with E. Byrne Hackett (Yale University Press) re architectural refinement publications; donations of publications; supporters, C.J. MacCarthy, George Coffey, Arthur Hill, Frank W. Deas; 'Greek Refinements' circulars; Karl W. Hiersemann; G.J. Kern; William H. Crocke; Board of Trustees (Herman Stutzer, Col. R.B. Woodward); subscribers; A. Kingsley Porter; research and museum work; reviews; Nellie’s health; watercolor artist Ross Turner; review of 'Greek Refinements' (Journal of Hellenic Studies). Notes.

General corresp [1.1.033]: Hambidge. (1916-1922)

Corresp with Jay Hambidge re architectural theories; supporters A.D.F. Hamlin, Wilford S. Conrow; presentation at architectural league dinner; Scammon lectures at Art Institute of Chicago; James Kane on applying Hambidge’s theories; lectures on Egyptian Art ('Passage from Medum by W.M. Flinders Petrie'); review of 'Dynamic Symmetry, The Greek Vase' (Yale University Press). Goodyear corresp with Conrow re announcement of Hambidge lecture; The Nation editor; Yale University Press; Professor Sargeant Kendall (Yale School of Fine Arts); William H. Crocker re reviews; Susan Hutchinson; G.A. Eisen re Eisen’s defense of Hambidge’s book; architect Welles Bosworth. Articles: 'Dynamic Symmetry and the Greek Vase' (review by Goodyear); 'Greek Porportions Theoretically and Otherwise' (Egerton Swartwout); Preamble to Constitution and pamphlet, League of New York Artists; 'Greek Design' (Jay Hambidge); 'Mr. Hambidge’s Paper on Greek Design' (A. Trystan Edwards); 'Dynamic Symmetry, A Criticism' (Edwin M. Blake).

General corresp [1.1.034]: Hamlin. (1910-1913)

Corresp with A.D.F. Hamlin (Columbia University) re architectural refinement research including Pisa, Byzantine Church of the Holy Peace (St. Irene), Abbey Church at Ourscamp, Chartres Cathedral, St. Denis, Westminster Abbey, San Ambrogio (Milan), Noyon, Church of St. Germain des Pres, St. Pierre de Montmartre, St. Leu d’Esserent; Samuel Howe; lectures.

General corresp [1.1.035]: Haworth. (1909-1912)

Corresp with Jesse Haworth re publications; Dr. Petrie; Egypt.

General corresp [1.1.036]: Heaton, A.G. (1899-1900)

Corresp with A.G. (Gus) Heaton re architectural refinements; publishing Heaton’s works.

General corresp [1.1.037]: Heaton, C. (1912-1923)

Corresp with Clement Heaton re publications including The Yale Review of 'Medieval Refinements'; architectural refinements including spire of St. Germain at Auxeme; design theories; Ruskin; poem, 'The Tomb of Maria del Caretto: Its Cast at Brooklyn Museum'; Heaton’s glasswork. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.038]: Hiersemann. (1910-1922)

Corresp with Karl W. Hiersemann (publisher and bookseller) re Pisa cathedral & tower; distribution of articles in Germany; 'Greek Refinements'. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.039]: Hill. (1910-1913)

Corresp with Arthur Hill (University College, Cork) re architectural refinement photographs and publications; Ripon Cathedral; Asperto’s Atrium (Milan).

General corresp [1.1.040]: Hirsch. (1911-1913)

Corresp with Fritz Hirsch (Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Architektur) re translation and publication of article on Leaning Tower of Pisa; reviewers, including A.D.F. Hamlin and Paul Garnault. In German.

General corresp [1.1.041]: Jaccaci. (1910)

Corresp with August F. Jaccaci re 'Architectural Record' articles; catalog of the Edinburgh Exhibition; architectural refinements in St. John the Divine, 5th Avenue Baptist Church (Rockefeller Church); William Welles Bosworth, G.L. Heins, C. Grant LaFarge, architects.

General corresp [1.1.042]: Jones, A.M. (1918-1919)

Corresp with A.M. Jones (Marshall Jones Publishing Co.) re publishing architectural refinements book. Extracts from book contract with Yale University Press for Greek Refinements. Notes. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.043]: K. (1910-1921)

Corresp with Fiske Kimball (University of Virginia) re review of Professor Warren’s book; F.W. Kost re support for Wilford S. Conrow; George Kriehn re Sister Mary Ambrose and art lectures at Mt. St. Vincent College; Kunsthistorisches Institut re publication exchange, Garnault, Brockhaus.

General corresp [1.1.044]: Kern. (1912)

Corresp with G.J. Kern re exchange of publications; distribution of 'Greek Refinements' by Hiersemann, Yale University Press.

General corresp [1.1.045]: L. (1905-1921)

Corresp with M. Lange; Joshua Lauber re architectural refinements & Trinity Lutheran Church (Lancaster, PA); League of New York Artists (Howard Giles) re reception for Jay Hambidge, Goodyear’s position at the Museum; Professor Heinrich Litie (University of Innsbruck) re exchange of publications ('Greek Refinements'); Lotus Magazine (Howard Earle, Editor).

General corresp [1.1.046]: LaFarge. (1911)

Corresp with C. Grant LaFarge re architectural measurements in St. John the Divine.

General corresp [1.1.047]: Lanier. (1911)

Corresp with Henry W. Lanier re architectural refinements in publications; W.R. Lethaby, architectural critic; article by R.M. Hamilton; architectural refinements (Greek & Gothic); John Beverley Robinson, architect.

General corresp [1.1.048]: Lewis. (1891-1901)

Corresp with Emma Lewis re publications; architectural refinement research at Pisa; receiving certificate from Pisa engineer; research travels in Italy; Brooklyn lecture. Letter to Lewis from sister. Goodyear letter to Professor Hooper (BIAS) re details of Italian research trip (Brooklyn Institute survey of Italian medieval buildings). List of museum lectures on Greek art and civilization (1899-1900). Postcards: Italian sites. Articles: Yale Alumni Weekly articles, 'Fire in Milan Exposition'. Announcement of lectures on Egyptian art and civilization, architectural refinements, & history. Photographs. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.049]: Lewis. (1904-1905)

Corresp with Emma Lewis re application for position at Metropolitan Museum of Art (DeForest). Copies of letters supporting application including Baron Henry de Geymuller, George B. McClellan, George Peabody Wetmore, John LaFarge, R.W. DeForest, Lewis R. Ehrich, William Macbeth, George Foster Peabody, H.W. Ranger. Corresp re architectural refinements in San Marco, Venice (including copy of letter from Goodyear to Professor Pompeo Molmenti, in French); meeting of American Institue of Architects (Cass Gilbert); Architectural League visiting exhibition; Camille Enlart; Auguste Choisy; George Coffey; Bernhard Berenson; Edinburgh exhibition and catalog; Goodyear’s 1905 travel itinerary; Frank W. Deas; H.O. Tarbolton; reviews of exhibition; Alfredo Melani; Col. Eustace Balfour. Copies of supportive letters from Russell Sturgis, Auguste Choisy (in French), Bernhard Berenson. Copies of letters of introduction for Mr. and Mrs. Lewis. Articles: 'New Points in Churches', Italian articles.

General corresp [1.1.050]: Lewis. (1906-1923)

Corresp with Emma Lewis re vacation; John Bilson; Durand; Camille Enlart; E.S. Prior; Mrs. McClellan; trustee Col. R.B. Woodward; Emma Lewis’ European trip; Dublin exhibition; financial support; architectural refinements book. Copies of corresp with Edward L. Morse re support; Gustavo Giovannoni (President of Roman Society of Architects) and Frank W. Deas re Hercules Temple at Cori and Neptune Temple at Paestum; B.E. Smith (Century Co.) re refinements; RIBA Journal editor re John Bilson; Choisy re Cori (in French); G. Magui (Associazione Artistica Fra I Cultori de Architettura).

General corresp [1.1.051]: Lorch, Emil. (1913-1919)

Corresp with Emil Lorch (University of Michigan) re architectural refinements photographs & exhibition; lectures; Greek Refinements. Letter from Lorch to William H. Fox praising Goodyear.

General corresp [1.1.052]: M. (1904-1922)

Corresp with C.J. MacCarthy re architectural refinements in St. Agostino at Orvieto, Baptistry at Pisa. Letter from W.D. Carol to Dr. Mahaffy re architectural refinements (Durham Cathedral). Corresp with Allan Marquand re architectural refinements at [Egesta]; A.N. Marquis & Co. re biographical notice, Charles Goodyear; W.T. Mayo re architectural refinements in Rosegill (Virginia Estate); Julia McCay re Italy; A. Melani postcard: Corlanzone, Villa Rosa (in French); Messerini re architectural refinements and Pisa (in French); Rev. Thomas C. Middleton re article; Grace Mitchell re cast of Westminster tablet; Accademi di Belle Arti in Milano re 'American Architect' (in Italian); Maria S. Morgan re lectures; Editor of Munsey’s Scrap Book re Arthur Benington article, 'Proving the Lost Arts of Mediaeval Architects'; John L. Myres re publications.

General corresp [1.1.053]: Maine vacations. (1920-1922)

Corresp with camp managers in Maine re coordination of Goodyear vacations.

General corresp [1.1.054]: March. (1910-1912)

Corresp with H. Colley March re Pisa Commission report, architectural refinements in Pisa; architectural refinements in English churches including St. Nicholas at Harbledown, Abbey Church at Shaftesbury; Thomas Perkins.

General corresp [1.1.055]: Mather. (1910-1919)

Corresp with Frank Jewett Mather (Art Editor, Evening Post) re Brooklyn Museum; Yaddes Gaddi panels; Professor Marquand; lectures and exhibition on French cathedral photographs and catalog (Notre Dame, Amiens).

General corresp [1.1.056]: McClellan. (1910-1912)

Postcards from Mrs. Georgiana McClellan re travels in Italy. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.057]: Merritt. (1911)

Corresp with William G. Merritt (American Association of Lotus Growers) re the Lotus Flower; 'Grammar of the Lotus'; publications. Notes. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.058]: Metropolitan Museum of Art. (1920-1921)

Corresp with staff at Metropolitan Museum of Art re lecture; bibliography for art library.

General corresp [1.1.059]: Middleton. (1910)

Corresp with G.A.T. Middleton re articles in 'Building News', 'American Architect'; R.G. Lovell & Council of the Society of Architects.

General corresp [1.1.060]: N. (1912-1922)

Corresp with G. Northover re A. Kingsley Porter’s submission to RIBA Journal.

General corresp [1.1.061]: O. (1906-1910)

Corresp with Alessandro Olivotti re Goodyear’s articles in Italy; Col. M.G. Osborn ('Journal & Courier') re article.

General corresp [1.1.062]: P. (1910-1922)

Corresp with Peabody re painting at Trinity Church; Lucy C. Perkins re visit; Walter S. Perry re architectural refinements, Edinburgh exhibition; Augusto Pietri (Museo Civico di Pisa); The Players Club; Willis Polk re modern application of architectural refinements in California; T.J. Preston (Wells College) re courses in architecture. Postcards: Italian sites.

General corresp [1.1.063]: Pitcairn. (1917-1918)

Corresp with Raymond Pitcairn (lawyer) re architectural refinements; 'Greek Refinements'; Bryn Athyn Church (Ralph Cram, Robert Tappan, architects); A. Kingsley Porter; exhibitions; publications including Edinburgh exhibition catalog; William H. Crocker’s response to Pitcairn’s article; Cram & Pitcairn controversy.

General corresp [1.1.064]: Pitcairn. (1919)

Corresp with Raymond Pitcairn re publications; Bryn Athyn Church and dedication (Ralph Cram, Ferguson, architects); architectural refinements in Washington Cathedral (Robert Tappan, Frohman, Philip Robert, architects); objections to Goodyear’s Bryn Athyn article.

General corresp [1.1.065]: Pitcairn. (1921-1922)

Corresp with Raymond Pitcairn re architectural refinements; Bryn Athyn Church and publications; reviewing architectural refinement photographs; St. Mark’s, Venice.

General corresp [1.1.066]: Porter. (1910)

Corresp with A. Kingsley Porter re Lombard architecture; architecture of Pontorson Church (Notre Dame); Statham; publications; architectural refinements in France; Report of Commission on the Pisa Tower; leaning campaniles in Italy; medieval architecture in Germany including Strassburg; Porter’s European travel; Porter taking measurements for Goodyear. Notes. Photographs. Postcards.

General corresp [1.1.067]: Porter. (1911-1912)

Corresp with A. Kingsley Porter re Byrne Hackett; Amiens; Porter joining the Archaeological Institute; architectural refinements publications (Yale Review); book on Lombard architecture and illustrations; Goethe; Statham; G. Northover (RIBA); Goodyear’s 'Renaissance and Modern Art'; Avery Cloisonne collection catalog; Porter’s travels & research; Camille Enlart; 'Greek Refinements'; William H. Crocker. Copy of letter to G. Northover re submission of Porter manuscript to RIBA Journal. Postcard: Italian site.

General corresp [1.1.068]: Porter. (1913-1915)

Corresp with A. Kingsley Porter re architectural refinements in Italy including San Salvatore al Monte, Florence, San Ambrogio, Genoa, Cloister of St. Marco, leaning tower at Modena, St. Maria della Pieve at Arezzo, St. Croce; Ralph Cram; Porter’s travels & research in Italy; Greek architectural refinements (Temple of Athens at Syracuse); meeting Wilford Conrow; Monsignor Belvedere; Porter articles; Porter’s views on Goodyear’s publications; Brooklyn Museum & Board of Trustees; Miss Van Deman, Miss King at meeting. Copy of letter to Bernhard Berenson introducing Porter. Postcards: Italian sites.

General corresp [1.1.069]: Porter. (1916)

Corresp with A. Kingsley Porter re Porter publications; lectures; slides; Goodyear’s portrait; critics T.G. Jackson, Clement Heaton; 'Lombard Architecture' (vol. II). 'Memorandum for Mr. Porter referring to books and articles which may be available for publication after my death'.

General corresp [1.1.070]: Porter. (1917)

Corresp with A. Kingsley Porter re 'Irish Builder' article; pavement of St. Sophia and St. Mark’s; 'Lombard Architecture' including reviews; publications; ornamental architectural patterns; Lotus patterns; architect Bosworth & Rockefeller Venus statue; Goodyear’s portrait; Wilford Conrow; slides & photographs; S. Maria in Trastavere; Goodyear’s painting appraisals; Statham; art historian Sir Martin Conway; architectural refinements; John Beverly Robinson; Porter’s lecture on American architecture; visit to Bryn Athyn (Raymond Pitcairn, lawyer, Robert Tappan, Ralph Cram, architects); visit of art historian Nils Hammarstrand.

General corresp [1.1.071]: Porter. (1918)

Corresp with A. Kingsley Porter re 'Lombard Architecture'; Nils Hammarstrand; visit to Bryn Athyn (Raymond Pitcairn, lawyer); articles; exhibitions of cathedral photographs; introduction of Goodyear to Marshall Jones, publisher; book proposal on destroyed churches in France; Porter’s trip to France and travels in Italy; position at Service des Monuments Historiques; Amiens Cathedral; slides; John Bilson; architect R.M. Butler and modern application of widening refinements in Ireland; Wilford Conrow and army life; letter from Pitcairn to Porter. Postcards.

General corresp [1.1.072]: Porter. (1919)

Corresp with A. Kingsley Porter re Porter’s work at Commission des Monuments Historiques in France; cathedral research & photo exhibitions; lectures (Yale University’s Trowbridge Course); architects at Rheims & Amiens; architectural refinements in French churches including Notre-Dame, St. Quentin; Pisa; articles; taking measurements for widening refinements; critics including Lefevre-Pontalis, John Bilson, De Lasteyrie, Salomon Reinach; William H. Fox support for Goodyear publication; Avery cloisonne collection; Porter play 'The Seven Who Slept'; Porter tour with Berenson; 'Lombard Architecture'; Wilford Conrow and Goodyear’s portrait; membership in Architectural Association of Rome; museum staff resignations; publisher Marshall Jones; Donald Robb (Bryn Athyn); Porter’s job offers. Postcards, including Rheims during bombardment years 1914-1918.

General corresp [1.1.073]: Porter. (1920-1921)

Corresp with A. Kingsley Porter re Professor Emil Lorch & job opportunities for Porter; Wilford Conrow & exhibition of architectural photographs at Corcoran Gallery; Porter’s articles; architectural refinements; book by Brehier and review by De Lasteyrie; Porter’s travels and research in Europe; museum work; Miss Eugenie F. Shonnard; Goodyear’s past survey expeditions in Italy & France; Hambidge & critics of theory; exhibition at Carnegie Institute; article on Egyptian collection; architectural refinements at Lavaudieu, Haute-Loire; Porter’s lectures; archaeologist Dr. Gustavus A. Eisen & chalice of Antioch; paintings in Bryn Athyn (Wilford Conrow, Raymond Pitcairn); building plans of Philadelphia Museum of Art; possible refinements in Porter’s Cambridge house. Postcards from Lucy Porter to Goodyear re European trip. Postcards: Italian sites.

General corresp [1.1.074]: Porter. (1922-1923)

Corresp with A. Kingsley Porter re chalice of Antioch, Gustavus Eisen, Kouchaakji, Strzygovsky. Porter’s publications; recommendations for Porter’s travels and research; Armenian art; architectural refinements. Letter from Wilford S. Conrow to Goodyear.

General corresp [1.1.075]: Puento. (1911)

Corresp with Antonio Puento re translation of Spanish publication on architecture; E.R. Smith of the Avery library. Letter from Goodyear to E.R. Smith re translator.

General corresp [1.1.076]: R. (1908-1921)

Certificate from R.Biblioteca Universitaria di Pisa. Corresp with Robert S. Rhodes re Pisa campanile; editor of RIBA Journal re publications, Camille Enlart, John Bilson, E.S. Prior, 'Facts and Theories in relation to Refinements'; Jonathan Ring re photographs of brick buildings; Roman Society of Architects president (G. Giovannoni) re publications, Pisa campanile (in French); Bruno Roselli re Pisa controversy & architectural refinements; L. Earle Rowe re archaeological work in Egypt, Dr. Reisner.

General corresp [1.1.077]: Reinach, Salomon. (1913-1916)

Corresp with Salomon Reinach re casts; Hastings’ article; architectural refinements. Review of Greek Refinements (in French). Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.078]: Revue de l’Art Chretien. (1908-1911)

Corresp with L. Cloquet, Eug. Cobbaert, Marcel Aubert re articles (in French).

General corresp [1.1.079]: Rivoira. (1911)

Corresp with G.T. Rivoira re book on Lombardic architecture.(Some material in Italian.)

General corresp [1.1.080]: Robinson. (1910-1919)

Corresp with John Beverley Robinson re architectural refinements including examples in Italy & Egypt; slides; articles.

General corresp [1.1.081]: S. (1910-1923)

Corresp with Cornelia B. Sage (Buffalo Fine Arts Academy); A.D. Savage re death of Goodyear’s wife, architectural refinements, 'Grammar of the Lotus'; Montgomery Schuyler re architectural refinements; Francis P. Smith (Georgia School of Technology) re architectural refinements; subscriber (R.C. Austin) re publications; George Stevens (Toledo Museum of Art) re publications. Catalog: Sculpture by Helen Sahler (Mrs. Shortridge). Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.082]: Shonnard. (1921-1922)

Corresp with sculptress Eugenie F. Shonnard re intro to Mr. and Mrs. A. Kingsley Porter; Shonnard’s artwork and commissions; architect Ralph Cram and St. John the Divine; architectural sculpture; Alfons Mucha; purchase of art by William H. Fox; Shonnard’s travels.

General corresp [1.1.083]: Smith. (1909-1913)

Corresp with Edward R. Smith re architectural refinements; obelisks; Columbia University’s Avery Library; Pisa campanile; Goodyear’s lectures & exhibitions.

General corresp [1.1.084]: Speir. (1920)

Corresp with O. Speir (National Terra Cotta Society) re A. Kingsley Porter in Italy; terra cotta building in Pisa; address for William Lee Woollett.

General corresp [1.1.085]: Spiers. (1909-1911)

Corresp with R. Phene Spiers re death of Auguste Choisy; architectural refinements; Professor Hastings; Pisa tower & commission report; Royal Academy exhibition; Statham; entasis in Italian campaniles; H.L. Heins; St. Mark’s; A.L. Frothingham; A. Kingsley Porter; Greek refinements.

General corresp [1.1.086]: Sturgis, Lyman. (1921-1922)

Corresp with Lyman B. Sturgis (The Century Co.) re publishing architectural refinements book.

General corresp [1.1.087]: Supino. (1909-1911)

Coresp with B. Supino re architectural refinements; publications; Fleury. Postcards: Italian sites. In Italian.

General corresp [1.1.088]: T. (1913-1919)

Corresp with Hugo P. Thieme (University of Michigan) re praise of lectures; exhibition. H.F. Truman re I.B. Stoughton Holborn’s lecture series. Some material undated.

General corresp [1.1.089]: Tappan. (1917)

Corresp with Robert Tappan re Bryn Athyn; Ralph Cram; Raymond Pitcairn; A. Kingsley Porter; Mr. Walker; Mr. Carswell.

General corresp [1.1.090]: Turner. (1913)

Corresp with Ross Turner re architectural refinements including widening in Rouen Cathedral, St. Ouen; exhibition. Illustration of nave & choir in Notre Dame, Paris.

General corresp [1.1.091]: unidentified. (1909-1921)

Corresp re history of medicine references; exhibition of photos of French cathedrals in the war zone. Letter fragment in German. Postcard of Republican Guard, France.

General corresp [1.1.092]: V. (1903-1913)

Corresp with W.R. Valentiner re importance of architectural refinements, publications (Edinburgh exhibition catalog), museum exhibition & catalog, refinements in St. John the Divine (John LaFarge & G.L. Heins, architects), 5th Avenue Baptist Church (Rockefeller Church) by William Welles Bosworth; Mrs. Vonnoh re publications; H. Vulliety (in French).

General corresp [1.1.093]: W. (1887-1923)

Corresp with W. Walker (Edinburgh Architectural Association) re Edinburgh exhibition catalog, Mr. Tarbolton; Franklin Jasper Walls re architectural refinements in St. John the Divine (G.L. Heins, C. Grant LaFarge, architects); James Walsh re lectures; Margaret Wardell & Minnie Basebe re health, churches; Mary Wardell; H. Langford Warren re Edinburgh Exhibition catalog; C.H. Weller re 'Greek Refinements', photographs; Russell Whitehead re submissions & editorial policy of 'The Architectural Record'; Charles Wilbour re discovery of architectural refinements in churches; Mrs. Grant Williams re mummified bulls in the Abbott Collection; Robert B. Woodward; Miss Wotton re domestic situation. Postcards: English churches.

General corresp [1.1.094]: Woollett. (1910-1920)

Corresp with architect William Woollett re architectural refinements; modern application in hotel (Troy, NY); John Bilson; Auguste Choisy; O. Speir.

General corresp [1.1.095]: Yale University. (1909-1922)

Corresp with Yale Alumni Weekly (Professor John F. Weir & Edwin Oviat, Editor) re submissions. Report of the Trowbridge Lecture Course on architectural refinements; corresp with Yale News (William C. Ballitt, editor) re report. Reunion invitations & response. Corresp with Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity (W.H. Holden) re members; Yale University Press (L.P. Soule) re 'Greek Refinements'. Commencement week program 1920.

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Series 2: Research and writings, subseries 2.1: papers

Research & writings [2.1.001]: architectural refinements notes. (n.d.)

Notes re architectural refinements in cathedrals; taking measurements; publications. Book references. Arcade spacings in Notre Dame. Notes from A. Kingsley Porter. Postcards: French, Italian sites.

Research & writings [2.1.002]: Catalogue of the Goodyear Collection of Photographs of Italian Architecture & Sculpture. (n.d.)

Checklist of photographs.

Research & writings [2.1.003]: L’Evasement de la Cathedrale d’Amiens. (n.d.)

Typescript on architectural refinements of Amiens Cathedral. In French.

Research & writings [2.1.004]: books. (n.d.)

Bibliography of publications mostly owned by Goodyear.

Research & writings [2.1.005]: Recent Publications of the Brooklyn Museum. The Architectural Refinements of St. Mark’s at Venice. (n.d.)

Typescript describing the development & relevance of architectural refinement theory and Goodyear’s contribution through publications.

Research & writings [2.1.006]: widening refinements notes. (n.d.)

Checklist: Daniel Gallery opening exhibition (1919-20); notes, measurements, quotations & citations re architectural refinements in cathedrals including R.M. Butler’s church, publication. Notecard on St. Mark’s (1919). Notes from Brehier - Rheims cathedral. Postcards: Italian sites.

Research & writings [2.1.007]: A Lost Art. (1874-1896)

Personal memorandum re Greek & medieval architectural refinements. Scribner’s article 'A Lost Art' on initial observations. Notes & diagram. Some material undated.

Research & writings [2.1.008]: articles re Goodyear. (1892-1927)

Articles, extracts, typescripts, reviews, notices re Goodyear, architectural refinements theory, churches. Includes 'Architectural Revelations concerning the Medieval Cathedrals' by C.E. Norton, extract from Arthur L. Frothingham’s 'Monuments of Christian Rome', 'American Art Expert Reveals Secret of Medieval Beauty' (New York Herald), 'Transformation of a Great Cathedral' St. John the Divine (New York Times Magazine), Pisa article (Record & Guide), letter to the Editor of 'America' re Bryn Athyn church, ’St. Sophia Totters While Nations Discuss Question of Restoration (The Sun), 'Noyon Wrecked in Vandal Spirit' (New York Times), typescript of section on refinements in Russell Sturgis’ 'History of Architecture'.

Research & writings [2.1.009]: Optical Refinements. (ca.1895)

Publishers Prospectus for 'Optical Refinements, Perspective Illusions and Symmetrophobia in Medieval Architecture'.

Research & writings [2.1.010]: 'Native American Stringed Musical Instruments'. (1897)

Reprint of article by Daniel G. Brinton in 'American Antiquarian'.

Research & writings [2.1.011]: Pisa. (1901)

Typescripts by Goodyear including 'The Leaning Facade of Pisa', 'Titles for Illustrations', 'Vertical Inclinations of the Pisa Cathedral'. Some material undated.

Research & writings [2.1.012]: Museum Memoirs. (1901)

Tentative propectus of the Museum Memoirs, title page (The Asymmetrical Cathedrals and Churches of Italy, Part I, The Pisa Cathedral, Report of the Brooklyn Institute Survey), checklist of illustrations, Architectural Record cuts, estimate for volume 1.

Research & writings [2.1.013]: photographs. (1901)

Photo list, bromide enlargements, 1901 series.

Research & writings [2.1.014]: articles by Goodyear. (1902-1920)

Reprints, typescripts, & article extracts re architectural refinements: 'Amiens Cathedral and Mr. Bilson’s Rejoinder', 'Note on Mr. Bilson’s Reply', 'List of Publications 1874-1902', 'Lombard Architecture', typescript re survey expedition 1907, refinements in the Episcopal Cathedral of New York.

Research & writings [2.1.015]: Archaeological Institute of America (legal-size folder). (ca.1903)

Text of address before Archaeological Institute of America: 'Brooklyn Institute Surveys of Early Byzantine Churches at Constantinople and of Gothic Cathedrals of Northern Europe'.

Research & writings [2.1.016]: survey expenses. (1903)

List of vouchers and expense accounts.

Research & writings [2.1.017]: 'The Architectural Refinements of the Pisa Cathedral'. (1903)

Draft.

Research & writings [2.1.018]: 'The Architectural Refinements of the Pisa Cathedral' (legal-size folder). (1903)

Draft, appendix, chapter I.

Research & writings [2.1.019]: 'The Architectural Refinements of the Pisa Cathedral' (legal-size folder). (1903)

Draft, chapter II, 'Observations at Pisa in 1870'.

Research & writings [2.1.020]: 'The Architectural Refinements of the Pisa Cathedral' (legal-size folder). (1903)

Draft, chapter II, 'The Greek Refinements'.

Research & writings [2.1.021]: 'The Architectural Refinements of the Pisa Cathedral' (legal-size folder). (1903)

Draft, chapters III & IV.

Research & writings [2.1.022]: photograph enlargements (legal-size folder). (1903-1908)

Checklist and draft list of enlargements of architectural refinements photographs mostly from 1907 series. Other years: 1903, 1905, 1906, 1908.

Research & writings [2.1.023]: notes and checklists (legal-size folder). (1904-1908)

Notes, citations, measurements, partial drafts, checklists, re architectural refinements; vertical curves in cathedrals & churches of Northern France. Some material undated.

Research & writings [2.1.024]: 'Recent Discoveries of Architectural Refinements in Medieval Cathedrals'. (1905)

Draft.

Research & writings [2.1.025]: 'Recent Discoveries of Architectural Refinements in Medieval Cathedrals'. (1905)

Typescript.

Research & writings [2.1.026]: Edinburgh exhibition (legal-size folder). (1905)

Addresses of H.O. Tarbolton & Goodyear re the Architectural Association of Edinburgh’s exhibition of Brooklyn Museum photographs showing architectural refinements. Announcement of contribution from Jesse Haworth to publish catalog.

Research & writings [2.1.027]: Edinburgh notes (legal-size folder). (1905)

Notes, slide list, draft article re lectures during the Architectural Association of Edinburgh’s exhibition of Brooklyn Museum photographs showing architectural refinements. List of subscribers.

Research & writings [2.1.028]: checklist of photographs & slides (legal-size folder). (1905)

Checklists & notes possibly from lectures during the Architectural Association of Edinburgh’s exhibition of Brooklyn Museum photographs showing architectural refinements.

Research & writings [2.1.029]: Architects Society of Rome exhibition catalog. (1905)

Typescript catalog of the Exhibit by the Architects Society of Rome of Brooklyn Museum photographs of architectural refinements. Includes 12 photographs of interiors/exteriors of buildings showing architectural refinements which may not be directly related to catalog.

Research & writings [2.1.030]: 'Institute Lecture' notes (legal-size folder). (03/1907)

Notes re 'Giovannoni’s Discovery of Curves in Plan at Cori'. Included is a plate of the Temple of Hercules at Cori from American Journal of Archaeology.

Research & writings [2.1.031]: architectural research survey, expenditures. (1907)

Itemized expenditures for Goodyear’s architectural refinements survey expedition.

Research & writings [2.1.032]: Brooklyn Museum architectural exhibition notes. (1909)

Notes re supporters' responses to architectural refinements exhibition at the museum: John Beverley Robinson, A.D.F. Hamlin, Charles S. Hastings, William Welles Bosworth, George Coffey, Russell Sturgis, A.L. Frothingham.

Research & writings [2.1.033]: photo enlargements. (1910)

Checklist of enlargements for 1910 series. Steamship schedule (Italy - US).

Research & writings [2.1.034]: Pisa article. (1910-1911)

Article, diagrams, photos re Goodyear’s work on architectural refinements, Pisa Cathedral & campanile. Reprint of 'American Architect' article: 'An Analysis of the Report of the Pisa Commission on the Leaning Tower.' Diagrams, photographs used in Pisa article in Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, 1911. Some material undated.

Research & writings [2.1.035]: 'Greek Refinements'. (1912)

List: illustrations. Table of contents, notes, figure layout & descriptions for 'Greek Refinements'. Letter from draftsman Isadore Reh.

Research & writings [2.1.036]: 'Greek Refinements'. (1912)

Yale University Press leaflet announcing publication of 'Greek Refinements' including images from book.

Research & writings [2.1.037]: Dublin exhibition. (ca.1914)

Label text for Dublin exhibition.

Research & writings [2.1.038]: Dublin exhibition & lecture. (1914)

Articles re Dublin exhibition & lecture; invitation to Goodyear’s architectural refinement lecture sponsored by Classical Association of Ireland ('Rediscovered Secrets of Medieval Art'); list of enclosures for lecture; dates of events, lectures.

Research & writings [2.1.039]: travel receipts (legal-size folder). (1914)

Itemized receipts for travel to Copenhagen to examine prehistoric collection and architectural refinements survey trip to Egypt.

Research & writings [2.1.040]: 'The Refinements in Italian Churches'. (1916-1917)

Typescript: 'The Refinements in Italian Churches' including sections on Greek Refinements, Observations at Pisa in 1870, Church of Santo Stefano, Theories of Foerster and Burckhardt, Interior of the Pisa Cathedral. Illustration list.

Research & writings [2.1.041]: 'The Refinements in Italian Churches'. (1916-1917)

Carbon copy with added notes.

Research & writings [2.1.042]: RIBA members (legal-size folder). (1919)

List of members of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) who reside in Ireland.

Research & writings [2.1.043]: widening refinements lectures. (1919-1920)

Summary list of slides with notes for lecture and Brooklyn Institute lecture outline.

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Series 2: Research and writings: subseries 2.2: bound volumes

Research & writings [2.2.001]: 'Materials for A Grammar of the Lotus' Vol. I. (1891)

Bound volume, 'Materials for A Grammar of the Lotus: Supplementary to Thesis in American Journal of Archaeology and Essays in the American Architect, Vol. I'. Handwritten notes & illustrations on tracing paper; table of contents. Order form for published book.

Research & writings [2.2.002]: 'Materials for A Grammar of the Lotus' Vol. II. (1891)

Bound volume: 'Materials for A Grammar of the Lotus: Supplementary to Thesis in American Journal of Archaeology and Essays in the American Architect, Vol. II'. Handwritten notes & illustrations on tracing paper; table of contents.

Research & writings [2.2.003]: 'Materials for A Grammar of the Lotus'. (1887-1893)

Items removed from 'Materials for A Grammar of the Lotus' Vol. II, p. 219. Pamphlet: derivation of symbols & forms ('Positions of the Grammar of the lotus'); 'Catalogue of Rare Water Lilies & other Choice Aquatic Plants, with Careful Directions for their Culture'; invitation to Goodyear lecture on 'The Lotus in Decorative Art'; printed request for subscribers; notes; review of the book; promotional pamphlet; corresp re Goodyear lecture on 'The Lotus Flower in Art' at the Cooper Union; corresp with Reginald Stuart Poole (British Museum).

Research & writings [2.2.004]: 'Materials for A Grammar of the Lotus' Vol. III. (1891)

Bound volume: 'Materials for A Grammar of the Lotus: Supplementary to Thesis in American Journal of Archaeology and Essays in the American Architect, Vol. III'. Handwritten notes & illustrations on tracing paper; list of subscribers; table of contents.

Research & writings [2.2.005]: addresses & lectures. (1889-1896)

Bound volume: 'Address book and Record of Lecture Engagement on History of Art' including notes, expenses, lecture schedule.

Research & writings [2.2.006]: diary. (1901)

Bound volume: notes from survey trip to Italy including measurements & list of museum lectures for the 1901/02 season. Slide list. Photograph.

Research & writings [2.2.007]: diary. (1903)

Bound volume: notes from survey trip of cathedrals in France, Constantinople, Austria, Black Sea, including measurements & list of photographs.

Research & writings [2.2.008]: diary. (1907)

Bound volume: notes from survey trip to France including measurements.

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Series 3: Department of Fine Arts, subseries 3.1.: correspondence

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.001]. (1895)

Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper re paid subscriptions; survey expedition to Italy; funds for photographs.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.002]. (01/1899-07/1899)

Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re museum business including superintendent position; Goodyear’s appointment as curator; procuring architectural models; purchasing casts; staffing & building issues; gallery cases; exhibitions; photographs; 1895 survey photographs; Brooklyn Children’s Museum; lectures; loan of Robbia photo collection from Albert A. Hopkins. Corresp with William B. Davenport re Metropolitan Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum’s financial report, annual membership. List: etchings loaned by H.H. Benedict.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.003]. (08/1899)

Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re museum business including casts; staffing & building issues; names to be inscribed on building; gallery cases; Brooklyn Children’s Museum; A.B. Meyer; 1895 survey (cartoons, photo exhibition). Report: lantern slides.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.004]. (09/1899-12/1899)

Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re museum business including photographs; staff issues; lectures; loan of marble statue by Mrs. Charles Emery; Brooklyn Children’s Museum; purchasing books & photographs; owners of architectural refinement photographs (1895 survey); gift of engravings by Sanderson Smith. Corresp with S. Culin re photo of museum; loan of Assyrian slides. Letter to Arthur Hill re architectural refinement photographs.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.005]. (01/1900-03/1900)

Report: gifts of Partridge sculpture by George Foster Peabody (no date). Corresp with T.C. Horsfall re Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re museum business including lectures; pictures loaned by A. Augustus Healy; gift of painting by John B. Ladd; copyright; photographs; museum catalog; gift of astronomical clock and photos from A.B. Lounsbury; loan of painting of General U.S. Grant by F.T.L. Boyle. Letters to Art Editor re loan of painting by H.H. Benedict; to Stewart Culin re sending museum photographs; to A.B. Meyer re gift of books & photographs; building & staffing issues; collections.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.006]. (04/1900-05/1900)

Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re museum business including purchasing set of Tissot’s Life of Christ; casts; lectures & attendance; Arretine vases & moulds; gift of vases from A.E. Overton; gold watch from Peter Creifelds; rejection of loan of painting from Regnar Pingel; loan of paintings from Charles E. Dingee. Letter from W.C. Mills (Ohio State Archaeological & Historical Society) re excavations.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.007]. (06/1900-08/1900)

Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re museum business including photographs; 1895 survey photos; loan of Greek sculpture from Henry T. Chapman; loan of painting from E.S. Oppenheim; gift of coins and ring from Hermann G. Pauli; George Coffey (Science & Art Museum, Dublin) re acquisitions; Paris exposition & photographer Hawkes; donation & loan of vases by McElroy & Kate Bunker; lectures. Letter from Harold Shepstone re Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.008]. (09/1900-01/1901)

Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper re museum business including potential loan of cloisonne vases from Clayton L. Moak; Paris exposition & photographer Joseph Hawkes; exhibiting Tissot paintings; potential purchase of Bowes' collection of Japanese art; Brooklyn Institute Museum Bulletin proposal; Baker Sarcophagus. Letter from Helen J. Aitkin to Hooper re lectures. Copies of letters to Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert McClurg. Lists: accessioned slides; lecture titles (& flyer); lectures on Rome.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.009]. (11/1902-11/1903)

Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re museum business; slides for lecture; Alfred Duane Pell’s gift of china; loan of paintings from Francis Gottsberg; gift of Japanese pottery by Mr. DeSilver; with Albert A. Hopkins & Carll H. DeSilver re painting loaned by Henry Wiltse. Lists: paintings given by Carll H. DeSilver; paintings loaned by Mr. Schieren.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.010]. (11/1903)

Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re museum business; Pell china; gifts by Col. Woodward; H.W. Desmond re architectural refinements exhibition; George N. Olcott; John Weir (Yale University) & Yale Alumni Weekly re Trowbridge lecture course; G.P. Brett re museum circular; Gilbert Evans (Brooklyn Daily Eagle) re lectures. Corresp with Alfred Duane Pell re gifts of china; George Of re A. Augustus Healy loan. List: survey vouchers.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.011]. (12/1903)

Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re museum business; gift of Howard Crosby Butler’s photograph collection; coins given by Mr. Benson; lectures; survey; Carnegie Institution; exhibition; gift of Syrian bottle from Charles M. Skinner; Pell gifts (china). Corresp with H.W. Desmond re Alfredo Melani; Yale Alumni Weekly re publishing lecture; Mr. Skinner re Pell gifts; Mrs. S.J. Strobridge re gift of bowl; Samuel R. Betts re publications; Kate Koehn re lecture. Letters of introduction in Italy for architectural decorator William Chester Chase. Report of the Department of Fine Arts.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.012]. (01/1904)

Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re museum business; collections; Egyptologist Dr. Muller; Professor Richardson’s lectures; George Olcott gift; Henry de Geymuller; exhibitions; vouchers for expenses; survey photographs; purchase of Limoges from Col. Woodward. Corresp with Wendell Garrison re Carnegie Institution; Henry de Geymuller re publications; Dr. Muller re purchases in Egypt for museum; H.W. Desmond re architectural refinements publications; Russell Sturgis re support of refinements from John LaFarge & Geymuller; Sister Cordelia, Viggo C. Eberlin & Kate Koehne re lectures; Walton B. McDaniel re refinements in Cathedral of Senlis; F.A. Bather; Yale Alumni Weekly. Corresp re purchases, loans & gifts including with George Olcott re purchasing collection (includes checklist); Arthur Trimmer re sculpture from S.E. Huntington; Gilbert Evans (Brooklyn Daily Eagle) re A. Augustus Healy’s gift of Italian art. Typescript: 'Report of Lecture by Professor William H. Goodyear...on the Cathedral of Notre Dame. The Nave and Transepts'.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.013]. (02/1904)

Corresp with Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re lectures, museum business, gift of porcelain by Mr. DeSilver, objects offered to Culin from B. Kasai; John Beverly Robinson re support for architectural refinements; John S. Billings (Carnegie Institution) & Charles Eliot Norton re refinements; O.G. Shultz & J.A. Manghan re Tissot collection; Louis C. Newhall re refinement photograph exhibition, 1903 survey.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.014]. (07/1903-02/1904)

Letterpress book. Outgoing letters to Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re museum business; exhibitions; lectures; purchasing photographs; cases; staff issues; summaries of Goodyear’s work & surveys; bonded works; architectural refinements; creation of Department of Ethnology; Carnegie Institution; Alfred Duane Pell collection gift; Greek vases purchased by Robert Woodward; sword purchased from Woodward Memorial Fund; purchase of Maudslay books; purchase of Howard Crosby Butler’s photographs; gift of coins from Mr. Benson; loan of paintings from Henry M. Wiltse; potential loan of paintings from David I. Rogow; loan of paintings from Margaret Tyler; loan of painting from William Hughes; potential gift of painting from Mrs. G.H. Belden; gift of Japanese pottery from Mr. de Silver; purchase of Limoges from Woodward Memorial Fund; purchase of panels; gift of glasswork from Robert Woodward; purchase of artifacts from George Olcott; gift of bonnet from Mrs. Charles Pierce. Letters to A. Augustus Healy; Howard Crosby Butler, Arthur Hill, Hugh D. Rooper, Thomas Day Seymour & Mr. Smith re architectural refinements & survey; W.H. Lowdermilk & Co. re portraits of Charles Goodyear; Arthur Hill, Charles de Grave Sells, Camille Enlart, Viollet le Duc re architectural refinements; Carll De Silver & Robert Woodward re potential purchase of Ming vase from Arthur French; Yale Alumni Weekly & John Weir re Trowbridge lecture course; Macmillan Company re publications; H.W. Desmond re architectural refinements photo exhibition, publications; Alfred Pell re bequest of miniatures by Mr. Penniman. Lists: Saturday lecture series; material brought in as Museum property by Goodyear on return from the Institute Surveys of 1903. Annual report: accessions & loans of Art Department 1902-03. Letters of introduction in Italy for architectural decorator William Chester Chase. Reprint: 'Photometric Measurements of the Variable Stars...' by Edward C. Pickering, 1881 (American Academy of Arts & Sciences).

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.015]. (02/1904-01/1905)

Letterpress book. Outgoing letters to Franklin W. Hooper (BIAS) re work of Goodyear & the Department including objects offered, Culin purchases from B. Kasai, lectures, exhibits, Department of Archaeology; Frances Gottsberger re loans of paintings; William M. Flinders Petrie re funds for Egypt Exploration Fund, excavation; A. Augustus Healy re Charles W. Gould; Louis C. Newhall re architectural refinements photograph exhibition from 1903 survey; Kate Koehns & Charles Atkins re lectures; Alfred P. Maudslay re books; Powell Creech re Mr. Pell; Curator-in-Chief A.G. Mayer re Mr. Goodwin, staff issues; Horace Wadlin & Otto Fleischner re Boston Public Library photo exhibition; W.S. Booth re Boston Public Library lecture; Henry de Geymuller re Church of St. Francis at Lausanne, publications, Carnegie Institution; William Ware & Camille Enlart re architectural refinements; R.R. Bowker re refinement exhibition, Carnegie Institution; Frederic A. Lucas re potential gift of plaster model from Helen J.V. Wills; Mr. Bowker re Carnegie Institution. Typescript: Schut painting, sculpture presented by Thomas T. Barr. Requisition forms. Accession records: Albans & Partridge sculptures, reproduction Mycenaean jars, silk gown, marble relief, marble sculpture.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.016]: casts. (1905-1912)

Corresp re casts, including V. Steffeusul (Royal Museum, Copenhagen) re Danish sculpture; Giuseppe Lelli; Campi Carlo, Milan; Eduardo Pierotti re Roman Sarcophagus; Otto Egger; Stefano Marsili, Rome, re bronzes. Price lists. Notes. Cyanotypes. Photographs. 1963 Registrar’s office memo re file. (Includes French, Italian, German.) Some material undated.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.017]: Lucas, Frederic A. (1906)

Corresp with Frederic A. Lucas re organization of Edinburgh exhibition; funds and contributors for Edinburgh exhibition catalog. Some material undated. See also expedition/survey file in S03|01|01.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.018]: Morris, Edward L. (1911)

0orresp with Edward L. Morris re paintings offered by Miss Rohlsing; museum business; Colonel Chapman’s art collection; Samuel P. Avery catalog; Egyptian antiquities gift of British School of Archaeology & Professor Petrie; donation of paintings by William H. Cummings; articles for Museum News. Requisition re Avery cloisonne collection. Notes.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.019]: Morris, Edward L. (01/1912-02/1912)

Corresp with Edward L. Morris re Samuel P. Avery cloisonne collection catalog; museum collection fund; museum business and staffing; Executive Committee meetings; Professor Hooper; Committee on Museum of Art. The Museum News (February 12) article: Museum Changes.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.020]: Morris, Edward L. (02/1912-12/1912)

Corresp with Edward L. Morris re museum business and staffing; Executive Committee; Avery cloisonne collection catalog; art collections (Francis Lathrop, artist; Hamilton Easter Field, donor). John Getz letter re catalog. Franklin W. Hooper letter re India Rubber World; Museum Day anniversary celebration; selection of William H. Fox as Curator-in-Chief. Catalog: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery Paintings by John Lavery. Report: Department of Fine Arts. List: accessions.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.021]: Fox, William H. (1918-1919)

List of publications by Goodyear (1895-1910). Corresp with William H. Fox re subscribing to government loans; salary; publication of book on architectural refinements & cost estimates; finances & history of survey expeditions, publications, exhibitions.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.022]: receipts. (1919-1923)

Receipts for subscriptions to newspapers, The Nation.

Department of Fine Arts [3.1.023]: Hutchinson, Susan. (1922)

Corresp with Susan Hutchinson re publications in library.

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Series 3: Department of Fine Arts, subseries 3.2: Avery Collection

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.001]: Avery Collection, correspondence. (1909-1911)

Corresp with Samuel P. Avery re acquiring, publicizing, exhibiting, describing the Avery collection (cloisonnes, vases); catalog. Corresp with Ma Tsun Shin, J. Getz, Charles M. Cooper, Edward L. Morris re catalog. Corresp with publishing & printing companies. Letter from C.K. Leang to J. Getz with Chinese poem. Letter from N. Sanborn re description of objects. Checklist. Typescripts re Avery collection. Clipping: Rich Cloisonnes on View. Notes. Photographs: Button Island, object. Some material undated.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.002]: Avery Collection, correspondence. (1912)

Corresp with Samuel P. Avery re acquiring, describing, exhibiting, publicizing Avery cloisonne collection; catalog; Japanese objects; architectural refinements photograph exhibition; gift of medals. Corresp with Charles M. Cooper, Edward L. Morris re catalog. Letter from J.W. Bothwell, DeVinne Press re cloisonne catalog. Letters to John Getz re catalog. Notes. Receipt from DeVinne Press.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.003]: Avery Collection, correspondence. (1913-1917)

Corresp with Samuel P. Avery re acquiring, publicizing, describing, exhibiting Avery collection (cloisonne, medals, bronze portrait reliefs); catalog; Columbia University gold medal. Corresp with George Kunz re publicattion of Roty medals (Avery gift). Notes. Description of 22 cloisonne objects.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.004]: Avery Collection, correspondence. (1918)

Corresp with Samuel P. Avery re acquiring, exhibiting, shipping, publicizing cloisonne collection & wall vases; Bryn Athyn (Pitcairn, Cram); exhibition of cathedral photographs from war zone of Northern France; publishing architectural refinements book (Marshall Jones Co.). Letters: Avery to William H. Fox (Brooklyn Museum) re shipping collection; F.W. Kaldenberg (dealer) to Avery re cloisonne exhibition; Henry Tyrell (The World) re article on cloisonne collection for Christian Science Monitor, publishing architectural refinement cathedral photographs; A. Augustus Healy to Avery re cloisonne exhibition. Notes. Photograph: object.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.005]: Avery Collection, correspondence. (1919)

Corresp with Samuel P. Avery re architectural refinements lectures; acquiring, exhibiting, describing, publicizing, returning objects from the cloisonne collection (bronzes & wall vases); catalog. Letter from E.G. Kennedy re visiting cloisonne exhibition. Typescript: announcement of installation of Avery collection of enamel (cloisonne), bronzes, and wall vases. Clippings: 'Pitkin Collection of Pottery Given to Atheneum', 'A Flower Garden of Chinese Art'.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.006]: Avery Collection, correspondence. (1920-1921)

Corresp with Samuel P. Avery re textiles; acquiring & publicizing Avery collection (cloisonne, bronzes). Letter from E.G. Kennedy. Letter from Avery to William H. Fox re gift of textiles. Corresp with Alice Lee Welcher (Avery’s niece) re Avery’s declining health, Paterson collection; with Amy Ogden Welcher (niece) re Avery collection, bronze bust of Avery, family. 1915 clipping: 'Duc D'Avarary Art Sale Yields $96,287' (Flemish tapestry).

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.007]: Avery Collection, catalog copy (legal-size file). (n.d.)

Typescript of catalog of Avery collection including oriental textiles & 'matter relating to the Lohans' (incomplete). Notes.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.008]: Avery Collection, notes. (n.d.)

Draft notes: description of objects. Plates and photographs: objects in the Avery collection.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.009]: Avery Collection, plates. (n.d.)

Notes and plates of objects in the Avery collection.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.010]: Avery Collection, Robert Hoe Collection catalog. (1911)

Robert Hoe Collection sale catalog, annotated.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.011]: Avery collection, travel receipt. (1911)

Receipt itemizing travel expenses for conference on Cloisonne catalog in Hartford, Connecticut.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.012]: Avery Collection, Chinese bronzes & wall vases. (n.d.-1912)

Notes. Catalog text for Chinese bronzes & wall vases. Checklist.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.013]: Avery Collection, cloisonne catalog. (1913)

Corresp with Samuel P. Avery re submission of typescript: 'Private Catalog of Chinese Cloisonne & Bronzes' compiled by John Getz. Plates and photograph: objects.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.014]: Avery Collection, catalog, bronzes & wall vases. (1916)

Typescript: 'Catalog of the Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese & Japanese Bronzes & a Collection of Wall Vases' by John Getz.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.015]: Avery Collection, catalog text, notes. (1917-1920)

Typescript: catalog text for Oriental textiles. Checklist: cloisonne enamel, wall vases, chinese enamel, bronzes. Notes. Text re enamels. Some material undated.

Department of Fine Arts [3.2.016]: Avery Collection, catalog, vases. (1918)

Typescript: catalog of collection of hanging wall vases. Notes. Plates and photograph: objects.

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Series 4: Scrapbooks

Scrapbooks [4.1.001]: Comments and Exhibits Relating to Architectural Refinements, I. (ca.1891-04/1903)

Scrapbook (indexed). Reviews. Articles & clippings re architectural refinements theory & survey expeditions; exhibition of medieval Italian architecture photographs; lectures; Pisa. Articles by Goodyear. Corresp with Emma Lewis re contributions; C.J. MacCarthy; Arthur Hill (RIBA); Clement Heaton re architectural refinements in Lausanne Cathedral; A. Augustus Healy re Italian expedition; Russell Sturgis; M.E. Cannizzaro (Society of Architects in Rome); C.E. Norton. Certificates from Italian architects. Survey review and summary by Antonio Taramelli (in Italian). Notice of Paris Exposition lectures.

Scrapbooks [4.1.002]: Exhibits Relating to Architectural Refinements, II. (04/1903-10/1904)

Scrapbook (indexed). Articles & clippings re architectural refinements survey expeditions; results of survey in Northern France, Germany, Constantinople; lectures; publications; St. Mark’s (Venice); Notre-Dame (Paris); Yale University honorary degree; honor from Architects Society of Rome; Boston Public Library exhibition. Lecture announcements. Photographs of St. John’s at Chester. Goodyear research fund expenses. Corresp with George Coffey re lecture, Grammar of the Lotus; C.E. Norton; Francesco Saccardo (St. Mark’s); Richard Norton; A.W. Greely; John LaFarge; John Beverley Robinson; Emma Lewis re contributions; Hugh B. Rooper re refinements in French church, Greek refinements; Henry von Geymuller re Pisa, application to Carnegie Institution; Samuel P. Avery; B. Perrin; Charles Hastings; William R. Ware re Carnegie Institution; A. Augustus Healy; J.S. Billings; H.W. Desmond; Daniel C. Gilman re Carnegie Institution; Robert Hobart; G.A.T. Middleton; C.J. MacCarthy; Arthur Hill re refinements in St. Johns at Chester; Oscar Montelius re the lotus; A.B. Meyer.

Scrapbooks [4.1.003]: Exhibits Relating to Architectural Refinements, III. (10/1904-06/1905)

Scrapbook (indexed). Reviews. Articles & clippings re results of architectural refinements survey in France, Germany, Constantinople; Notre-Dame (Paris); St. John’s at Chester; church at Maderno; condition of St. Mark’s (Venice); exhibitions; publications; lectures; honors; Charles Goodyear. Corresp with M.E. Cannizzaro re exhibition & publications; Hugh Rooper re church at Maderno; President of Carnegie Institution; Auguste Choisy re lotus & refinements; Camille Enlart; Manfredo Manfredi; Luigi Marangoni (St. Mark’s); F.W. Deas; Bernhard Berenson; Emma Lewis re contributions; Alfred Melani; John LaFarge; H.D. Croly re Charles Goodyear; C.E. Norton. Photograph: (possibly) church at Maderno. Postcards: European churches.

Scrapbooks [4.1.004]: Exhibits Relating to Architectural Refinements, IV. (07/1905-01/1906)

Scrapbook (indexed). Articles & clippings re restoration of St. Mark’s; exhibitions (Rome, Edinburgh); architectural refinements theories; Edinburgh lecture; election to Edinburgh Architectural Association. Edinburgh exhibition proposal, poster, invitations, catalog proposal & review. Corresp with Venetian International Art Congress re Goodyear election; Bernhard Berenson; G.L. Heins; L. Ingleby Wood (Edinburgh Architectural Association); Camille Enlart; Wendell P. Garrison; Egerton Swartwout; Henry de Geymuller; Russell Sturgis; C.E. Norton; Auguste Choisy; Alfredo Melani; H.W. Desmond. Photograph: Edinburgh Architectural Association building. Postcards.

Scrapbooks [4.1.005]: Exhibits Relating to Architectural Refinements, V. (12/1905-1907)

Scrapbook (indexed). Articles & clippings re modern application of architectural refinements; refinements theory; Hercules Temple at Cori; lectures; honors; Edinburgh exhibition & catalog; organization of American Association of Museums; RIBA meeting; John Bilson critique. Articles by Goodyear. Goodyear biography for Century Cyclopedia of Names. Lecture: 'Gustavo Giovannoni and Curves in Plan in the Temple at Cori'. American Institute of Architects certificate of membership. Lecture invitation. Report on the Department of Fine Arts (1907). Corresp with Horatio Brown; E.B. Green re refinements in Albright Art Gallery; Society of Architects & Edinburgh Architectural Association re Carnegie Institution & election to Society; Auguste Choisy; William J. Coombs re election to Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Milan; Kenyon Cox; G.L. McClellan; A. Augustus Healy re Edinburgh Exhibition catalog; E.S. Morse; John LaFarge; Gustavo Giovannoni; John Weir; Eug. Cobbaert; R. de Lasteyrie; architects Hornblower & Marshall re refinements in National Museum (Washington, DC); Associazione Artistica Fra I Cultori De Architettura. Postcard.

Scrapbooks [4.1.006]: Exhibits Relating to Architectural Refinements, VI. (11/1906-06/1910)

Scrapbook (indexed). Report of the Brooklyn Museum (1909). Flyer re architectural refinements exhibition, Brooklyn. Programs: Archaeological Institute of American & American Philological Association (1909); conference of museum officers (1909). Proceedings extract re election of membership to American Institute of Architects. Biography. Notes re refinements. Articles & clippings re honors; lectures (Yale Trowbridge Course); publications; Rheims Cathedral; John Bilson; Prior; opening of Brooklyn Museum wing; memberships (Society of Columbia University Architects); Brooklyn Museum exhibitions (Egyptian antiquities, refinement photos); responses to refinement research; Temple at Cori; Amiens Cathedral; state of Brooklyn Museum & collections; opening of Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); reviews. Articles by Goodyear re Dutch art. Corresp with G. Magui (Associazone Artistica Fra I Cultori Di Architettura); John LaFarge; Royal Acadermy of Fine Arts (Venice) re honorary membership; Leon Margotin (Rheims Cathedral); Auguste Choisy; architect A. Aubertin; C.E. Norton; G.L. Heins; Cass Gilbert; W.S. Conrow re Goodyear portrait; Northover; William Petrie; R. Phene Spiers; Harold A. Capan (Architectural League of New York); F.J. Mather (art editor, Evening Post); L. Cloquet.

Scrapbooks [4.1.007]: Exhibits Relating to Architectural Refinements, VII. (1909-1912)

Scrapbook (indexed). Announcement: Trowbridge lecture course announcement (1909). Booklet: 'Optical Illusions in Architecture & Ornament & Schools of Design' by George Coffey. Program: American Philological Association & Archaeological Institute of America (1910). Invitations: rubber exhibition & dinner. Articles & clippings re refinements publications; leaning tower of Pisa; Conrow & his paintings; Brooklyn Museum exhibitions & collections; 1910 expedition; casts; honors; lectures; appointment of Frederic A. Lucas & Edward L. Morris (Brooklyn Museum); St. John the Divine; Lotus magazine; children’s museum; modern application of refinements (W.W. Bosworth & Western Union Telegraph building, New York Assocation for the Blind, private residence). Articles by Goodyear. Analysis of the Report of the Pisa Commission on the Leaning Tower. Corresp with A.L. Frothingham re History of Architecture; A. Kingsley Porter re Pisa, St. John the Divine; Opera Della Primaziale di Pisa; B. Berenson postcard re Pisa; William Bosworth re Pisa, J.D. Rockefeller, Jr. home; W.R. Lethaby re Pisa; W.H. Crocker; Warren Powers Laird; Howard Butler; G. Northover; R. Phene Spiers; G.T. Rivoira; Giovannoni; E. Byrne Hackett; Henry S. Canby; August F. Jaccaci & C.F. Cox re modern application of refinements; Peleo Bacci; Richard S. Childs (Short Ballot Organization) re proportional representation; Preston; W.M.R. French re casts.

Scrapbooks [4.1.008]: 'Goodyear Personal, including Exhibits Relating to Architectural Refinements, Book Reviews for 'Greek Refinements', etc.', VIII. (1912-01/1914)

Scrapbook (indexed). Catalog: Exhibit by the Architects Society of Rome, of Brooklyn Museum photographs. Invitations. Announcement: Columbia University lectures. Lists: auction of Chapman collection. Catalog: Avery library exhibition. Publishers announcement: 'Greek Refinements'. Articles & clippings re leaning tower of Pisa; lectures; opening of Avery Hall Columbia University; A. Kingsley Porter’s book 'The Construction of Lombard & Gothic Vaults'; 'Greek Refinements'; appointment of William H. Fox (Brooklyn Museum); Brooklyn Museum exhibition & reception; municipal club meeting; eugenics; reviews of Goodyear & Porter publications. Corresp (mostly re 'Greek Refinements') with P. Garnault; Helen Hadley; N. Sanborn; George Parmly Day & Samuel Betts re John Addison Porter Prize competition; J. Fenimore Cooper, Jr. re election to Elizabethan Club; Robert Woodward; William L. Woollett; Archaeological Institute of America; William W. Bosworth; William Atkinson re refinements in Newport Hospital; Emil Lorch; Gustav Kobbe; John A. McCorkle; Edward L. Morris; George Peabody; Francis P. Smith; Ernest Watson (Pratt Institute); C.H. DeSilver; Robert Woodward; John Weir & Stokes (Yale University); Henry Tyrell (The World); Herbert Batsford; F.W. Deas; Jesse Benedict Carter; Giovanonni; Jesse Haworth; R. Phene Spiers; M. Schuyler; Franklin W. Hooper; J.P. Lyons (India Rubber World); E. Byrne Hackett.

Scrapbooks [4.1.009]: 'Goodyear Personal, including Exhibits Relating to Architectural Refinements', IX. (1913-1928)

Scrapbook (indexed). Bulk dates: 1913-1917. Clippings re Goodyear’s death & legacy. Biographical notes. Schedule & invitation: Dublin exhibition & lectures (including plates). Announcement: lectures. Invitation: Yale exhibition. Catalog: Brooklyn Museum refinements exhibition. Programs. Goodyear notes on American Federation of Arts lecture by Cram (Bryn Athyn). Notice of wife’s death. Publishers promotion: Porter & Goodyear’s books. Corresp & supplementary materials re applications to Metropolitan Museum & Carnegie Institution. Poem by Rosalie Goodyear. Book reviews (e.g. Greek Refinements, Renaissance and Modern Art). Articles & clippings re Dublin lectures & exhibition; Egypt tour; Pisa tower; St. John’s at Chester; refinements in Dublin cathedrals; refinements theory; destruction & restoration of French cathedrals; Amiens; modern application of refinements including New Church in Newport (Ireland), Bryn Athyn, M.I.T. building, Telephone & Telegraph building in New York; suicide of friends in Italy; refinements exhibition at Yale School of Fine Arts; honors; childrens photo contest; controversial art at Brooklyn Museum; destruction of churches during war; Brooklyn Museum collections & exhibitions (e.g. Zuloaga); Children’s Museum; W.S. Conrow’s Goodyear portrait; Mary Katherine & Nelson Goodyear obituaries. Articles by Goodyear. Corresp with Northover & George Day re 'Greek Refinements'; Henry Browne (Classical Association of Ireland) re lectures & exhibition; LaFarge & Hamlin re American Institute of Architects report on Goodyear’s theories; Mahaffy; Reginald Bromfield; Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland re honorary membership; Cass Gilbert; Architectural League of New York re meeting; William C. Hazlett; Edwin H. Denby (MacDowell Club); R.M. Butler re refinements in Newport church (Ireland); W.H. Crocker; Cram re Toronto Cathedral; W.W. Bosworth; Henry Tyrell (The World) re Zuloaga. Photographs: installation of refinement photographs; refinements in churches.

Scrapbooks [4.1.010]: X. (1909-1922)

Scrapbook (indexed). Bulk dates: 1917-1922. List of miscellaneous archaeological publications (1888-1912). Goodyear’s 'Notes on Mr. Bilson’s Reply'. Publishers promotions: Porter’s & Goodyear’s books. Excerpt: R. de Lasteyrie paper (in French). Invitations & announcements of lectures & exhibitions. Meeting program. Introduction to watercolor exhibition catalog. Checklist: Exhibition of Paintings by Wilford S. Conrow. Articles & clippings re Pisa; St. Mark’s (Venice); architectural refinements theory; refinements exhibitions; lectures; exhibition at the MacDowell Club featuring Wilford S. Conrow’s Goodyear portrait; modern application of refinements including San Francisco State building & Columbia University; Nelson Goodyear & obituary; reviews of Goodyear, Porter, Hamlin, & Hambidge books; John G. Johnson art collection; St. Patrick’s church at Newport (Ireland); Marshall Jones Co. publishing manuscript; Charles Goodyear; Bryn Athyn; Wilford S. Conrow portrait of Goodyear; League of New York Artists honoring Jay Hambidge; Harkness Memorial Tower, Yale University; refinements in Gloucester church; visit of William H. Fox to Bryn Athyn; Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Articles by Goodyear. Corresp with A. Kingsley Porter & William H. Crocker re 'Lombard Architecture', Bryn Athyn; Brehier; review of Jay Hambidge book; Alexandre Gunzburg (Russia); Raymond Pitcairn; Cram re Bryn Athyn; Henry McBride (The Sun); Rosalie Goodyear; Arthur G. Nichols; Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.; R.M. Butler re French cathedrals & Newport church; Samuel P. Avery re collection; Brooklyn Society of Artists (Hamilton Easter Field) re membership; Donald Robb re Bryn Athyn; RIBA (Charles H. Whitaker) re review of Jay Hambidge book; photographer Joseph Hawkes; Georgiana L. McClellan; John Beverley Robinson; William Welles Bosworth; Amy Ogden Welcher; F.W. Eddy (The World) re Harkness Memorial Tower Yale University; A.N. Mucha; G.A. Eisen.

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Series 5: Posthumous

Posthumous [5.1.001]: publication outline. (n.d.)

Outline for project to publish Goodyear’s work on architectural refinements, including names on the Advisory Board, contributing editors, financial statement.

Posthumous [5.1.002]: memorial. (1923)

Drafts and published Brooklyn Museum Quarterly memorial article: 'William Henry Goodyear, M.A. An Appreciation' by Wilford S. Conrow. Print of Conrow’s portrait of Goodyear. Genealogical notes.

Posthumous [5.1.003]: 'To My Father'. (1923)

Poem entitled 'To My Father' by Goodyear’s daughter Rosalie Goodyear.

Posthumous [5.1.004]: clippings. (1923)

Obituaries from Brooklyn Daily Eagle & The Art News.

Posthumous [5.1.005]: corresp. (1923-1926)

Letters addressed to Goodyear arriving after death & museum responses. Respondents include architect R.M. Butler re architectural refinements; R. Langton Douglas; Dr. A. Von Gerkan.

Posthumous [5.1.006]: notes. (1923-1924)

List of bound publications relating to architectural refinements; notes mostly by Wilford S. Conrow re publication of architectural refinements research.

Posthumous [5.1.007]: 'Medieval Refinements' corresp. (1923-1924)

Corresp between Wilford S. Conrow and Emil Lorch, Lyman B. Sturgis (The Century Co.), A. Kingsley Porter, Raymond Pitcairn, Emma Lewis, Publisher Marshall Jones, William H. Fox re publication of architectural refinements research. For additional corresp see P&S file #1326.

Posthumous [5.1.008]: 'Medieval Refinements' corresp. (1925-1940)

Corresp between Wilford S. Conrow and A. Kingsley Porter, William H. Fox, Emil Lorch re publication of architectural refinements research. For additional corresp see P&S file #1326.

Posthumous [5.1.009]: Conrow corresp. (1923-1928)

Corresp between Wilford S. Conrow and Emma Lewis; Gertrude M. Young; Mary Goodyear Earle re Goodyear memorial; William H. Fox re Goodyear photographs. Postcard from Virginia H. to Mrs. Conrow re travels. For additional corresp see P&S file #1326.

Posthumous [5.1.010]: 'Medieval Refinements' layout (W.S. Conrow, editor). (1924-1940)

Skeleton layout of 'Medieval Refinements': notes, book outline, draft text including sections on Background, History of Survey, Pisa. Article on Bryn Athyn: 'New Cathedral Rises in the Medieval Way'. Checklist: 'Brooklyn Museum Exhibition of Photographs & Surveys of Medieval Buildings'.

Posthumous [5.1.011]: 'Medieval Refinements' layout (W.S. Conrow, editor). (1924-1940)

Skeleton layout of 'Medieval Refinements': draft text including sections on Pisa & St. Mark’s.

Posthumous [5.1.012]: 'Medieval Refinements' layout (W.S. Conrow, editor). (1924-1940)

Skeleton layout of 'Medieval Refinements': draft text including sections on St. Mark’s & Medieval Italian Architecture.

Posthumous [5.1.013]: 'Medieval Refinements' layout (W.S. Conrow, editor). (1924-1940)

Skeleton layout of 'Medieval Refinements': draft text including sections on Medieval Italian Architecture, Genoa, Widenig Refinements, Notre-Dame, Rheims.

Posthumous [5.1.014]: books by Goodyear (legal-size folder). (1925)

List of Goodyear books & publications 1884-1912 'to become the property of A. Kingsley Porter'. Original list by Goodyear with annotations from 1925.

Posthumous [5.1.015]: Charles Goodyear. (1938-1939)

Article re celebration of centennial of rubber industry. Report by P.W. Litchfield (President, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company).

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Series 6: Visual materials, subseries 6.1: photographs, lantern slides and negatives

Visual materials [6.1.001]: 1895 survey expedition photographs. (1895)

Photographs, lantern slides, and glass negatives of sites in Italy showing architectural refinements, artworks in Italian museums. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.002]: 1901 survey expedition photographs. (1901)

Photographs and lantern slides probably from survey expedition of 1901 of sites in Italy showing architectural refinements. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.003]: 1903 survey expedition photographs. (1903)

Photographs, lantern slides, and negatives of sites in France & Turkey showing architectural refinements. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.004]: 1905 survey expedition photographs. (1905)

Photographs and lantern slides of sites in France & Italy showing architectural refinements; photographs of Edinburgh Architectural exhibition. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.005]: 1906 photographs. (1906)

Photographs of Amiens Cathedral (France) showing architectural refinements. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.006]: 1907 survey expedition photographs. (1907)

Photographs and lantern slides of sites in France showing architectural refinements. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.007]: 1909 photographs. (1909)

Photographs of Amiens Cathedral (France) showing architectural refinements. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.008]: 1910 survey expedition photographs. (1910)

Photographs and lantern slides of sites in Italy & France showing architectural refinements. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.009]: 1914 survey expedition photographs. (1914)

Photographs, lantern slides, and negatives of sites in England, Turkey, Ireland, Germany & Greece showing architectural refinements. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.010]: survey expedition photographs. (n.d.)

Undated photographs and lantern slides of sites in France, Turkey, Italy, etc. showing architectural refinements. Includes a few sites not a part of expeditions. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.011]: survey expedition photographs. (n.d.)

Undated and unidentified photographs and lantern slides of sites showing architectural refinements. Includes notes regarding photographs. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.012]: miscellaneous photographs. (n.d.)

Photographs, many showing architectural refinements, not apparently from survey expeditions; room interior where Edinburgh catalog was written (ca. 1905); elevation & floor plan of St. John the Divine (1907-1908); book illustrations of architectural details. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.013]: Paris Exposition photographs. (1900)

Photographs and negatives of sites at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Some photographs have duplicates which are housed separately. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.014]: Paris Exposition photographs. (1900)

Photographs and copy negatives of sites at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Last nine photographs do not have corresponding negatives. Some photographs have duplicates which are housed separately. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.015]: Paris Exposition lantern slides. (1900)

Lantern slides in color and black and white of sites at the 1900 Paris Exposition. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.016]: World’s Columbian Exposition lantern slides. (1893)

Lantern slides of sites at the World’s Columbian Exposition. See photo database for item inventory.

Visual materials [6.1.017]: Assyria. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of archaeological and architectural sites, details, artifacts and views in situ and from installations in the British Museum and the Louvre, used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.018]: Egypt. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of archaeological and architectural sites, details, artifacts and views in situ and from installations in the Gizeh Museum and the British Museum, used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear; included in this series are headings Egypt I, Egypt II and Egypt Extra. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.019]: Cypriote art. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of prints of male figures, used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.020]: Greek art. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of sites of antiquity and architectural details in Greece, southern Italy and Sicily. Objects and sculpture in museum collections in the Vatican, Rome, Naples, Paris, London and other cities. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. Headings: Greek art I; Greek art II; Greek art III; Greek art, antiquities; Greek art, antiquities in Italy; Greek art, sculpture I; Greek art, sculpture II; Greek art, sculpture III and Greek art, sculpture IV. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.021]: Etruscan. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of objects and sculpture in museum collections in Volterra, Perugia, and Orvieto, Italy and the British Museum. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.022]: Lotus. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of designs and text. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. Headings: Lotus I, Lotus II and Lotus III. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.023]: Ancient Rome. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of archaeological and architectural sites and details from the ancient Roman and Christian eras, including interiors, exteriors, scenic views, people, sculpture and other objects in situ and in museums. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. Headings: Ancient Rome, provinces; Ancient Rome, east of Jordan; Ancient Rome, City of Rome I-VII. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.024]: Pompeii. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of archaeological and architectural sites and details, including interiors, exteriors, scenic views, people, sculpture and other objects in situ and in museums. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. Headings: Pompeii I and Pompeii II. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.025]: Ravenna. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural sites and details, including interiors and exteriors. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.026]: Apulia. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural sites and details, including interiors and exteriors. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. Headings: Apulia I and Apulia II. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.027]: Venice. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural sites and details, including interiors and exteriors and local scenery. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. Headings: Venice I and Venice II. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.028]: Genoa. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural sites and details, including exteriors and local scenery. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.029]: Pisa. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural sites and details, including interiors, exteriors and site plans. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. Headings: Pisa I and Pisa II. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.030]: Byzantine Moorish. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural sites and details, including sites in Constantinople (Istanbul), Jerusalem, Medina, Florence, the Alhambra at Granada and the Alcazar at Seville. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. Headings: Pisa I and Pisa II. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.031]: Gothic. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural sites and details, including interiors, exteriors and details of churches, cathedrals, castles and other buildings in Italy, France, England, Germany and Belgium. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. Headings: Italian Romanesque & Gothic; Northern Romanesque I and II; Gothic I, II and III. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.032]: Florence. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural sites and details, including interiors, exteriors and details of churches, cathedrals, castles and other buildings in and around Florence. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. Headings: Florence I and Florence II. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.033]: Renaissance. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural sites and details, including interiors, exteriors and details of churches, cathedrals, castles and other buildings in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and New York City. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. Headings: Renaissance I, II and III. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.034]: Modern architecture. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural sites and details, including interiors, exteriors and details of churches, buildings and residences in the United States, France, Germany and Austria. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. Headings: Modern architecture I, II and III. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.035]: Classical architecture, details. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural details and ornaments, friezes and columns. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.036]: Decorative arts. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of furniture and drawings of household items, including designs by Herter, Eastlake, Hertzer, jewelry, silver. Headings: Decorative arts I, II, III. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.037]: Medieval art. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of ivory and wood carving, bronze-work, jewelry, mosaics, architectural details and ornamentation, religious articles and embroidery from Germany, Italy, France, England. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.038]: Italian sculpture. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural details, sculpture and carvings in cathedrals and churches and other sites in Italy and museums in France and Austria by Italian artists. Headings: Italian sculpture I and II. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.039]: Raphael. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of architectural details, sculpture and carvings in cathedrals and churches and other sites in Italy and museums in France and Austria by Italian artists. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.040]: Michelangelo. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of works by Michelangelo in the Vatican, sites in Italy, France and England. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.041]: Venetian painting. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of works by Mantegna, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Palma Vecchio at various sites. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.042]: Italian painting. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of works at various sites and museums throughout Italy and other places. Headings: Italian painting, 14C, 15C, 16C, 17C. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.043]: Spanish Flemish paintings. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of works at various sites and museums by Murillo, Velasquez, Van Eyck brothres, van der Weyden, Matsys, van Scorel, Rubens, Snyder, van Dyck, Brouwer, Teniers. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.044]: German paintings. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of works at various sites and museums by Wilhelm of Cologne, Durer, Holbein. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.045]: Dutch paintings. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of works at various sites and museums by Vanderwerff, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and others. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.046]: French, German, English 18th century. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of works at various sites and museums by Angelica Kaufman, Ary Scheffer, George Morland, and others. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.047]: maps. (n.d.)

Lantern slides of maps illustrating Assyrian, Chaldean and Egyptian ascendencies. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

Visual materials [6.1.048]: uncategorized. (n.d.)

Lantern slides including Greco-Roman and 11th century German sculpture, and silverwork. Slides were used for lectures by W.H. Goodyear. See photo database for more information.

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Series 6: Visual materials, subseries 6.2: plates

Visual materials [6.2.001]: architectural refinements: plate blocks. (n.d.)

Various sized cardboard rectangles noting dimensions for printed images.

Visual materials [6.2.002]: church of St. Vitale: plate (legal-size file). (n.d.)

Photographic plate for American Architect of Loggia, Church of St. Vitale, Ravenna, Italy.

Visual materials [6.2.003]: architectural refinements: plates. (1895-1910)

Plates (photographs & drawings) of St. Mark’s, Venice; cathedral & tower at Pisa; choir of St. Ambrogio; Rheims cathedral; Amiens cathedral; cathedral of St. John the Divine; St. Ouen, Rouen; Notre Dame, Paris; unidentified cathedrals; ground plan of temple. Some material undated.

Visual materials [6.2.004]: interiors of French churches: plates. (1903-1907)

Plates (photographs & drawings) of Notre-Dame; Rheims cathedral; St. Jacques de Rheims; St. Loup de Chalons; Amiens cathedral.

Visual materials [6.2.005]: Boston public library exhibit: plate. (1904)

Photographic plate of installation of architectural refinements photograph exhibition.

Visual materials [6.2.006]: architectural refinements: plates (legal-size folder). (1910)

Photographic plates from American Architect of widening refinements in St. Alpin, Chalons; Byzantine church at Constantinople; St. Loup, Chalons; St. Ouen, Rouen; Cathedral of Rouen; Rheims cathedral; Amiens cathedral; Laon cathedral; St. Mark’s, Venice.

Visual materials [6.2.007]: architectural refinements: plates (map case folder). (1910)

Plates (photographs & drawings) of Rheims cathedral; Amiens cathedral; St. Loup, Chalons; St. Remi, Rheims; S. Ambrogio, Milan; St. Mark’s, Venice; cathedral of Rouen; church of St. Ouen; Byzantine church in Constantinople, St. Loup-Chalons; St. Alpin, Chalons; Notre-Dame; unidentified. Some material undated.

Visual materials [6.2.008]: architectural refinements: BIAS Bulletin plates. (1911)

Plates (drawings) showing plans for Pisa cathedral; Santo Stefano at Pisa; St. John the Divine for Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Science Bulletin articles.

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Bibliography

Publications by William Henry Goodyear (in chronological order)

Memoranda for Lectures on the History and Development of Art. New York: Lange, Little & Hillman, 1872.
“A Lost Art.” Scribner’s Magazine. 8 (1874): 432.
“On 2nd Part of Goethe’s 'Faust.'” Lippincott’s Magazine. (February 1877): 233.
Ancient and Modern History. Excelsior Series of Catholic School Books. New York: W.H. Sadlier, 1884.
“The Charvet Collection of Ancient Glass in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” American Journal of Archaeology 1 (1885): 163.
“Egyptian Origin of the Ionic Capital and of the Anthemion.” American Journal of Archeology 4 (1888): n.p.
A History of Art. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1888.
“Lotus in Ancient Art.” The American Architect 25 (1888): 66–9, 115–18, 148–50, 225–26, 308–310.
A History of Art for Classes, Art-Students, and Tourists in Europe. 2nd ed., revised with new illustrations. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1889. (Four more editions published.)
“America’s Discoverers Before Columbus.” New York Herald, July 27, 1890, 9.
The Grammar of the Lotus. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1891.
“The Grammar of the Lotus.” Architectural Record 2 (1892): 165–183.
“Influence of Greek Architecture in the United States.” The Chautauquan Magazine. 16 (1892): 3–11, 131–137, 259–267.
“Are Conventional Patterns Spontaneously Generated? ” Architectural Record 2 (1893): 391–418.
“Kypros, the Bible, and Homer.” Architectural Record 3 (1893): 101–108.
“The Lotiform Origin of the Ionic Capital.” Architectural Record 3 (1893): 137–167.
Roman and Medieval Art. Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent, 1893.
“A Discovery of Horizontal Curves in the Maison Carrée at Nîmes.” Architectural Record 4 (1894): n.p.
“The Lotiform Origin of the Greek Anthemion.” Architectural Record 3 (1894): 263–90.
“Origin of the Acanthus Motive and Egg-and-Dart Mouldings.” Architectural Record 4 (1894): 88–116.
Renaissance and Modern Art. Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent, 1894.
“A Discovery of Greek Horizontal Curves in the Maison Carrée at Nîmes.” Smithsonian Report (1894): 573–588.
“A Discovery of Horizontal Curves in the Maison Carrée at Nîmes.” American Journal of Archaeology 10 (1895): 1–12.
History and Criticism of Italian Art and of Painting by the Old Masters. Syllabus. Albany: University of the State of New York, Extension Department, 1896.
A History of Art for Classes, Art-Students, and Tourists in Europe. 1st - 21st eds. New York: A.S. Barnes, 1896.
Illustrated Catalogue of the Goodyear Collection of Photographs of Italian Architecture and Sculpture, and of the Survey of Italian Mediaeval Buildings. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1896.
“Optical Refinements in Medieval Architecture.” Architectural Record 6 (1896): 1–16.
“Perspective Illusions in Medieval Italian Churches.” Architectural Record 6 (1896): 163–183.
Syllabus of a Course of Twelve Lectures on Italian Art and Painting of the Old Masters. Philadelphia: American Society for the Extension of University Knowledge, 1896.
The Ancient Statues and their Modern Critics. History and Criticism of Sculpture. Syllabus. Albany: New York State Regents of the University of the State of New York, University Extension Department, 1897.
“Constructive Asymmetry in Medieval Italian Churches.” Architectural Record 6 (1897): 376–405.
“A Discovery of Horizontal Curves in Medieval Italian Architecture.” Architectural Record 6 (1897): 481–508.
“A Discovery of the Entasis in Medieval Italian Architecture.” Architectural Record 6 (1897): 63–96.
“An Echo From Evelyn’s Diary.” Architectural Record 7 (1897): 180–213.
Roman and Medieval Art. Revised and enlarged. New York: Macmillan, 1897.
Roman and Medieval Art. Revised and enlarged. Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent, 1897.
Roman and Medieval Art. Revised and enlarged with many new illustrations. Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent, 1897.
Six Lectures on the Debt of the Nineteenth Century to Rome. Syllabus. Chicago: American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, 1897.
“The Cathedral of Troja.” Architectural Record 8 (1898): 279–296.
“Newly Discovered Refinements in Architecture.” Scribner’s Magazine 24 (1898): 381–384.
“The Problem of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.” Architectural Record 7 (1898): 257–294.
“Unknown Italy.” Architectural Record 8 (1898): 125–149.
“Horizontal Curves in Columbia University.” Architectural Record 9 (1898): 82–93.
Roman and Medieval Art. Revised and enlarged with many new illustrations. New York: Macmillan, 1899.
Renaissance and Modern Art. New York: Macmillan, 1900.
“An Unpublished Survey of the Pisa Cathedral.” American Journal of Archaeology 2nd ser., 4 (1900): 170–171.
“The Leaning Façade of Notre Dame, as compared with that of Pisa.” American Journal of Archaeology 2nd ser., 5 (1901): 12–14.
Renaissance and Modern Art. New York: Macmillan, 1901.
Application...To the President of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., for the Assistance of the Institution, in Making a General Re-Examination of the Medieval Cathedrals, and Churches of Europe. Brooklyn: Privately Printed, 1902.
“Architectural Refinements in Italian Churches.” American Journal of Archaeology 2nd ser., 6 (1902), 166–196.
“The Architectural Refinements of St. Mark’s at Venice.” Memoirs of Art and Archaeology 1, no. 2 (1902): 25–111. New York: The Macmillan Company for the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1902.
“Leaning Towers.” In A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, edited by Russell Sturgis, vol. 3, 263–68. New York: Macmillan, 1901–2.
“A Renaissance Leaning Façade at Genoa.” Memoirs of Art and Archaeology 1, no.1 (1902): 1–22. New York: Macmillan for the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1902.
“A Lost Principle in Art.” Irish News and Belfast Morning News, April 8, 1903.
“Architectural Refinements in Early Byzantine Churches and French Cathedrals.” Architectural Record 16 (1904): 116–140, 439–463, 569–590.
“Deviations in Notre-Dame, Paris.” The Architect and Contract Reporter, Sept. 23, 1904, 194–5.
Renaissance and Modern Art. New York: Macmillan, 1904.
“Vertical Curves and Other Architectural Refinements in the Gothic Cathedrals and Churches of Northern France and in Early Byzantine Churches at Constantinople.” Memoirs of Art and Archaeology 1, no. 4 (1904):1–67. New York: Macmillan for the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1904.
“Architectural Refinements.” The Architect and Contract Reporter 74 (1905): 170, 186–7, 194–5, 319.
Architectural Refinements Exhibition, Edinburgh, Sept.–Nov. 1905. Edinburgh: The Exhibition Committee, 1905.
“Architectural Refinements in Early Byzantine Churches and French Cathedrals.” Architectural Record 17 (1905): 18–41.
Associazione Artistica Fra i Cultori di Architettura in Roma. Catalogo Illustrativo delle Fotografia di Monumenti Medioevali Esposte dal Museo di Brooklyn. Roma: dalla Sede dell'associazione, 1905.
“Catalogue of Photographs in the Museum of Brooklyn, New York City, representing Medieval Architectural Refinements Exhibited by the Architects' Society of Rome, including Photographs of Surveys of the Cathedral of Pisa, and of the Bending and Leaning Vertical Lines of St. Mark’s at Venice.” Unpublished brochure. Avery Architectural Library, Columbia University.
Edinburgh Architectural Association. Illustrated Catalogue of Photographs & Surveys of Architectural Refinements in Medieval Buildings. Edinburgh: Morrison & Gibb, 1905.
“The Glamour of Crooked Building.” The American Architect and Building News 87 (1905): 203–7.
“A Reply to the Article in The Builder of September 23, Entitled 'The Glamour of Crooked Building'.” Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh Architectural Association, Exhibition Committee, 1905.
Roman and Medieval Art. Revised and enlarged. New York: Macmillan, 1905.
“Architectural Refinements: A Reply to Mr. Prior.” Architectural Review 19 (1906): 61–70, 20 (1906): 124–131, 159–163.
Catalogue of Paintings. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1906.
“The Columbia University Chapel, Howells and Stokes, Architects.” The Brickbuilder 15 (1906): 261–269.
Renaissance and Modern Art. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1906.
Roman and Medieval Art. Meadville, PA: Grosset & Dunlap, 1906.
“Architectural Refinement: Rheims Cathedral.” The Architect and Contract Reporter 78 (1907): 164–5.
“The Discovery, by Professor Gustavo Giovannoni, of Curves in Plan, Concave to the Exterior, in the Facade of the Temple at Cori.” American Journal of Archaeology 11 (1907): 160–178. Architectural Record 21 (1907): 399–419.
“Gustavo Giovannoni and Curves in Plan in the Temple at Cori.” The Architect and Contract Reporter 77 (1907): 94–5, 131–32, 150–1, 181–3.
“The Museum Architectural Research of 1907.” Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum News 3 (November 1907): 22–27.
“The Tombs of the Medici.” Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum News 3 (December 1907): 37–41.
The Widening Refinement in Rheims Cathedral. London: Private Printing, 1907.
“Architectural Refinements: A Reply to Mr. Bilson.” Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects 15 (1908): 17–51.
Bibliography of a Library for a Museum of Art. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 1908.
“Egyptian Hieroglyphics.” Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum News 4 (December 1908): 34–37.
Raffinements Architecturaux. Lille: Societé Saint-Augustin, Desclée, De Brower, 1908.
Renaissance and Modern Art. New ed. Detroit, MI: Published for the Bay View Reading Club by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1908.
“Amiens Cathedral and Mr. Bilson’s Rejoinder.” Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects 16 (1908–9): 715–740.
“The Architectural Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.” The American Architect , August 4, September 8, October 27, December 1, 1909.
“Architectural Refinements.” Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum News 5 (November 1909): 15–20.
“Correspondence. Amiens Cathedral.” Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects 16 (1909): 769–70.
“The Desirable Projection of Art Museums as Suggested by the Desirable Classification of Art Libraries.” Proceedings of the American Association of Museums 3 (1909): 93–115.
“On Recent Observations of the Widening Refinement in Amiens Cathedral.” Architect and Contract Reporter LI (1909): 79. Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum News 4 (February 1909): 69–70.
Roman and Medieval Art. Revised and enlarged. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1909.
An Analysis of the Report of the Pisa Commission on the Leaning Tower. New York: Swetland, 1910.
“An Analysis of the Report of the Pisa Commission on the Leaning Tower.” The American Architect 98 (1910): 101–110.
“Brooklyn Museum Measurements of 1910 in the Spiral Stairway of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.” The American Architect 98 (1910): 169–176.
“Recently Published Measurements Relative to the Leaning Tower of Pisa and Pisa Cathedral.” American Journal of Archaeology 2nd ser.,14 (1910): 87.
Catalogue of Paintings. With A.D. Savage. Brooklyn, NY: The Museum, 1910.
“The Controversial Aspects of the Architectural Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.” The American Architect 97 (1910): 45–56.
“Illustrations of the Widening Refinement in the Architectural Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.” The American Architect 97 (1910): 113–124.
“The Leaning Tower of Pisa. Summary of Paper read at the Providence meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, December 29, 1910, on the Brooklyn Museum Measurements of 1910 in the Spiral Stairway of the Pisa Campanile.” Unpublished brochure. Brooklyn Museum Library.
“Recently Published Measurements of the Pisa Cathedral.” American Journal of Archaeology 2nd ser., 14 (1910): 434–449.
Roman and Medieval Art. Revised and enlarged with many new illustrations. New York: Macmillan, 1910.
“What the Dutch School Stands For.” Ladies Home Journal, May 1910.
“The Architectural Exhibition at the Brooklyn Institute Museum: Horizontal Obliquities of the Pisa Cathedral.” Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 6 (1911): 139–144.
“The Architectural Exhibition at the Brooklyn Institute Museum: Horizontal Curves and Bends in the Elevation of the Pisa Cathedral.” Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 6 (1911): 167–174.
“The Architectural Exhibition at the Brooklyn Institute Museum: Horizontal Curves and Bends in Plan of the Pisa Cathedral.” Bulletin of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 6 (1911): 215–222.
“The Architectural Exhibition at the Brooklyn Institute Museum: Interior Asymmetries of the Pisa Cathedral.” Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 6 (1911): 404–411.
“The Architectural Exhibition at the Brooklyn Institute Museum: Systematic Asymmetries of Measurement in the Pisa Cathedral.” Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 6 (1911): 323–328.
“Architectural Refinements in the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine.” Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum News 6 (April 1911): 116–118.
“Brooklyn Institute Surveys of the Foundation Levels and Vertical Inclinations of the Pisa Cathedral.” Bulletin of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 6 (1911): 59–67.
“Brooklyn Institute Surveys of the Leaning Baptistry of Pisa.” Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 6 (1911): 35–39.
“Brooklyn Museum Measurements of 1910 in the Spiral Stairway of the Pisa Campanile.” American Journal of Archaeology 2nd ser., 15 (1911): 322–339.
“Chinese Cloisonné Enamels from the Hoe Collection Presented by Samuel P. Avery.” Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum News 6 (April 1911): 97–99.
“The Leaning Baptistry of Pisa.” The American Architect 99 (1911): 37–40.
“The Leaning Tower of Pisa.” Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum News 6 (February 1911): 65–68.
“Temperamental Architecture in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York.” The New York Architect 4 (1911): 41–53.
“Temperamental Architecture in the New York Cathedral of St. John the Divine.” Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 6 (1911): 343–350.
“The Visconti Monument in the Church of the Certosa of Pavia.” Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Museum News 6 (January 1911): 52–53.
Catalogue of the Avery Collection of Ancient Chinese Cloisonnés. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1912.
“The Goodyear Collection of Photographs Relating to Architectural Refinements at the Avery Library, Columbia University, lent by the Brooklyn Institute Museum.” Unpublished brochure. Brooklyn Museum Library.
Greek Refinements: Studies in Temperamental Architecture. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1912.
“Medieval Architectural Refinements, A Paper by William H. Goodyear.” Yale Review 1 (1912): 471–483.
“A Recent Discovery in Mediaeval Architecture. A Review of Arthur Kingsley Porter’s 'Construction of Lombard and Gothic Vaults.” The American Architect 101 (1912): 81–87.
“Water Colors by Winslow Homer in the Museum of the Brooklyn Insitute of Arts & Sciences.” Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 8 (1912): 387–390.
Renaissance and Modern Art. New York: Macmillan, 1913.
“Brooklyn Museum Exhibition of Photographs and Surveys of Medieval Buildings.” Unpublished brochure. Brooklyn Museum Library.
“Catalogue of Enlarged Architectural Photographs Illustrating Asymmetries and Refinements in Medieval Cathedrals, Loaned by the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute and Exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under the Auspices of the T-Square Club of Philadelphia and of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.” Unpublished brochure. Brooklyn Museum Library.
Catalogue of Enlarged Architectural Photographs Illustrating Asymmetries and Refinements in Medieval Cathedrals. New Haven: Yale Univ., Dept. of Architecture, 1914.
Catalogue of Enlarged Architectural Photographs, Loaned by the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute, N.Y., and Exhibited at the Dublin Museum of Science and Art under the Auspices of the Classical Association, the Royal Institute of Architects, and the Architectural Association of Ireland. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1914.
“English Churches.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 1 (1914): 217.
“The Horizontal Curves of St. John’s, at Chester.” The Irish Builder and Engineer, October 24, 1914, November 7, 1914, and Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects 3rd ser., 21 (1914): 585–95.
“The Prehistoric Egyptian Collection of the Brooklyn Museum.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 1 (1914): 51–74.
Rediscovered Secrets of Medieval Art. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1914.
“Trip To Egypt.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 1 (1914): 75, 114.
“The Widening Refinements in the Dublin Cathedrals.” The American Architect 106 (1914): 41–45 and The Irish Builder and Engineer 56 (1914): 342.
“Architectural Refinements Brought to the Attention of Irish Architects.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 2 (1915): 387.
“Architectural Refinements: Photographs.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 2 (1915): 262–263.
“The Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings at the Brooklyn Museum.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 2 (1915): 245–261.
“Modern Church Architecture and Medieval Refinements.” In American Churches, edited by Ralph Adams Cram. New York: American Architect, 1915.
“Rediscovered Secrets of Medieval Art.” Dublin: The Classical Association of Ireland, 1915.
“The Watercolors of Winslow Homer, 1836–1910.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 2 (1915): 367–384.
Water Colors by Winslow Homer Loaned to the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute on exhibition between the dates of October 16 to November 7. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 1915.
“Woodward Collection of Jade.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 2 (1915): 341–355.
“Madonna Enthroned: Painting by Bernardino Luini.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 3 (1916): 52–57.
A History of Art. 22nd ed. Revised and enlarged with new illustrations. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1917.
A History of Art for Classes, Art-Students and Tourists in Europe. 23rd ed. Chicago: Laidlaw, 1917.
Lessing’s Essay on Laocoon and its Influence on the Criticism of Art and Literature. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, 1917.
“Lombard Architecture.” The American Architect 112 (1917) 93–100, 113; (1917): 129–36.
“Second Thoughts About Zuloaga.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 4 (1917): 3–12.
“The Brooklyn Museum Exhibition of French Cathedral Photographs.” The American Architect (1918): 141–2.
“Chinese wall vases and cloisonné.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 5 (1918): 135–40.
“Churches and Cathedrals in Northern France.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 5 (1918): 247.
Exhibition of Enlarged Photographs of French Cathedrals & Churches in the War Zone. Brooklyn, NY: The Museum, 1918.
“The Franco-Belgian Exhibition at the Museum.” With William H. Fox. Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 5 (1918): 103–20.
“Goethe’s Italian Journey.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 5 (1918): 153–75.
“Modern Church Architecture and Medieval Refinements.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 5 (1918): 218–44.
“Notes on Illustrations to Modern and Medieval Refinements.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 5 (1918): 219–244.
“Recent Revival of Use of Architectural Refinements.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 5 (1918): 242.
“Additions to the Avery Collection.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 7 (1920): 42–49.
The Bryn Athyn Church. 3rd ed. Bryn Athyn, PA: Academy Book Room, 1920.
“Dynamic Symmetry and the Greek Vase.” The American Architect 118 (1920): 669.
“The Foundations of Classic Architecture. A Review of Professor Herbert Longford Warren’s Book"” The American Architect 117 (1920): 269–74.
“Archaeological Discoveries of Jay Hambidge.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 8 (1921): 114.
Catalogue of Enlarged Architectural Photographs Illustrating Asymmetries and Refinements in Medieval Cathedrals. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1921.
“The Memorial Quadrangle and the Harkness Memorial Tower at Yale.” The American Architect and The Architectural Review, Oct. 26, 1921, 299–314.
“The Sully Exhibition.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 8 (1921): 85–90.
“Preface.” In Catalogue of Water Colors illustrating the Life of Christ. New ed. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1922.

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Selected Publications about William Henry Goodyear (in chronological order)

Exhibition and publication reviews and additional clippings about Goodyear may be found in Series 4: Scrapbooks.

Norton, Charles Eliot. Historical Studies of Church Buildings in the Middle Ages, 321. New York: Harper, 1880.
Smith, Thomas Roger. Greek Architecture. Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent, 1892.
“Some Optical Refinements in English Medieval Architecture.” The Architect & Contract Reporter, September 25, 1895, 194.
“Professor Goodyear’s Discoveries.” Scientific American, November 14, 1896.
Middleton, G. A. T. “Deliberate Deception in Ancient Buildings.” The Nineteenth Century, March 1897, 463–466.
“Constructive Asymmetry.” The Architect & Contract Reporter, February 26, 1897.
“A New Discovery in Medieval Architecture.” The Literary Digest, January 2, 1897.
Sturgis, Russell. “Newly Discovered Refinements in Architecture.” Scribner’s Magazine, September 1898, 382.
Taramelli, Antonio. L'Arte 3 (1900): 137–40.
Heins, G. L. “Refinements.” In Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture, ed. Russell Sturgis. New York: Macmillan, 1901.
“Mr. Goodyear’s Work: Architectural Revelations Concerning the Mediaeval Cathedrals.” Yale Alumni Weekly, June 18, 1902, 419.
Sturgis, Russell, ed. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, 263–68. New York: Macmillan, 1902.
The American Architect, March 28, 1903. 98.
“Optical Refinements in St. Mark’s, Venice.” The Architect & Contract Reporter, April 10, 1903, 234.
“The Architectural Refinements of St. Mark’s, Venice.” Scientific American suppl.1429 (1903): 22,900–1.
“Medieval Architectural Refinements: Important Discovery in Cathedral Construction made by William H. Goodyear.” Yale Alumni Weekly (1904): 303–8.
“Medieval Architectural Refinements.” The Architect & Contract Reporter, February 19, 1904, 129.
“Deviations in Notre-Dame, Paris.” The Architect & Contract Reporter, September 23, 1904, 194.
“St. John’s, Chester.” The Architect & Contract Reporter, October 21, 1904, 260.
“W. H. Goodyear e l'estetica dell'architettura” La Difesa (1905).
Wood, L. Ingleby. “The Researches of Mr. W. H. Goodyear.” Architectural Review 18 (1905): 103–8.
Wood, L. Ingleby. “Mediaeval Architectural Refinements.” Burlington Magazine December 1905, 181–5.
[Goodyear’s photographs]. American Architect, March 31, 1906.
Bilson, John. “Amiens Cathedral and Mr. Goodyear’s 'Refinements.' A Criticism.” Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects 3rd ser., 13 (1906): 397–417.
Prior, Edward S. “Architectural Refinements and Mr. Goodyear’s Exhibition of Them at Edinburgh.” Architectural Review (London), February 1906.
Wood, L. Ingleby. “Medieval Architectural Refinements.” Eclectic Magazine, February 1906, 169–172.
Who’s Who in America, 1906–1907. Chicago: A. N. Marquis, 1906.
Enlart, Camille. Correspondence To Le Bulletin Monumental Regarding W. H. Goodyear. Paris: A. Picard, 1907.
Bilson, John. “Amiens Cathedral and Mr. Goodyear’s 'Refinements.' A Rejoinder.” Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects 3rd ser., 15 (1907): 84–90.
Demaison, L. Review of The Widening Refinement in Rheims Cathedral. Paris: A. Picard, 1907.
Benington, Arthur. “Proving the Lost Arts of Medieval Architects.” Munsey’s Scrap Book, June 1908, 1031–7.
“Discovery by Photography.” Manchester Courier, October 3, 1908.
“The Widening Refinement in Architecture.” The New York Herald, January 17, 1909.
Coffey, George. Optical Illusions in Architecture. Dublin: University Press, 1910.
Kobbe, Gustav. “American Art Expert Reveals Secret of Mediaeval Beauty.” The New York Herald Magazine Section, August 21, 1910, 11.
Porter, Arthur Kingsley. The Construction of Lombard and Gothic Vaults. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1911.
“World-Wide Architectural Controversy: Professor Goodyear doubts accuracy of first reports of investigations of the Leaning Tower of Pisa which are said to challenge his opinions.” Record and Guide, April 13, 1912, 760.
Garnault, Paul. “Les 'Raffinements' dans l'architecture grecque d'apres William Henry Goodyear.” Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Architecture 6 (1913): 245–263.
Browne, H. “Mr. W. H. Goodyear’s Architectural Theories.” The Irish Builder and Engineer, April 11, 1914, 220.
Browne, H. “A Practical Aspect of Refinement in Medieval Architecture.” Studies 3 (1914): 10.
Porter, Arthur Kingsley. “Architecture: Important Results of Mr. Goodyear’s Researches,"” The New York Times Book Review, April 5, 1914, 161–2.
Jackson, Sir Thomas Graham. Gothic Architecture in France, England, Italy, vol. 2, 289–91. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1915.
Sturgis, Russell and A. L. Frothingham. A History of Architecture, vol. 3, 60–62. New York: Baker & Taylor, 1915.
Fox, William Henry. The Franco-Belgian Exhibition at the Museum. Brooklyn, NY: The Museum, 1918.
American Literary Yearbook. Minnesota: P. Traub, 1919.
The Bryn Athyn Church. 3rd ed. Bryn Athyn, PA: Academy Book Room, 1920.
Conrow, Wilford S. “William Henry Goodyear, M. A.: An Appreciation.” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 9 (1923): 105–18.
[Obituary]. The New York Times, February 20, 1923. Yale University Obituary Record (1923). Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 19 and 20, 1923. Art News 21 (1923): 6. Arts 3 (1923): 213.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol.19. New York & Clifton, New Jersey: James T. White, 1926.
The Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 7, 416–17. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931.
Who Was Who in America, vol. 1. Chicago: A. N. Marquis, 1943.
Kunitz, Stanley J. American Authors 1600–1900. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1964.
Allibone, Samuel Austin. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1965.
Warner, Charles Dudley. Biographical Dictionary and Synopsis of Books. Detroit: Gale Research, 1965.
Glenn, E. Bruce. Bryn Athyn Cathedral: The Building of a Church. New York: C. Harrison Conroy Co., Inc., Fine Arts Publishers & Bryn Athyn Church, 1971.
Burke, William Jeremiah. American Authors and Books. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972.
Dean, Mary. Optical Refinements in Medieval Architecture: An American Theory and the English Reaction. Hammersmith, England: Mary Dean, 1990.
Hellman, Mari-Christine. “"Greece, Ancient Architectural Theory and Design: Refinements," acknowledgment.” In The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner, vol.13, 414–15. New York: Grove’s, 1996.
Rykwert, Joseph. The Dancing Column, 471, note 31. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
Alexander, Edward P. The Museum in America: Innovators and Pioneers, 133. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 1997.

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Notes

1) During Goodyear’s tenure, the museum was known as the Brooklyn Museum or, more formally, as the “Central Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences.” (return)
2) L. Ingleby Wood, “Medieval Architectural Refinements,” 1905, Scrapbooks [4.1.005], 1905-1907, 31. (return)
3) Norton, Charles Eliot. “Appendix II: Irregularities of Construction in Italian Buildings of the Middle Ages,” in Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1880), 321. Quotation refers to John Ruskin’s Seven Lamps of Architecture (New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1884). Goodyear was not the original theorist of architectural refinements, although he was the first to try and prove the existence of refinements in medieval and gothic structures. Architect John Pennethorne (1808–1888) noted curves in Egyptian and Greek buildings in 1833 and 1837. German architect Joseph Hoffer published this discovery in 1838; and architect Francis Cranmer Penrose’s book Principles of Athenian Architecture, published in 1851, gives measurements of curves in the Parthenon and sets an important precedent in the field. John Ruskin (1819–1900) argued that deviations from symmetry were deliberate. For more information on the early observations of refinements before Goodyear see Ch. 1 in Goodyear’s Greek Refinements (New Haven: Yale University, 1912). (return)
4) See General correspondence [1.1.022] for details regarding his responsibilities. (return)
5) Founded in 1823 at the Brooklyn Apprentices’ Library, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences was an umbrella organization covering the Brooklyn Museum, Botanic Garden, Academy of Music, and the Children’s Museum. The Institute was dissolved between 1970 and 1980, leaving the various divisions independent. (return)
6) The Children’s Museum remained a division of the Brooklyn Museum until 1948, when it became an independent institution. It was the first institution of its kind in the country. Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Yearbook 12 (1899–1900): 417. (return)
7) Reviews of some of these works can be read in series 4.1. It is important to note that Goodyear was one of the first historians to use photography to illustrate an art historical text. See William Goodyear, A History of Art for Classes, Art-Students, and Tourists in Europe (A.S. Barnes & Company: New York, 1888), [v]. (return)
8) According to Queens College History of Art Professor William W. Clark, The Grammar of the Lotus is an important work in the field of art history. He wrote that at a recent academic conference, the publication was "praised as the first book written and published by an American that examined the stylistic development of an art form and traced its evolution through a series of examples." (Clark to Deirdre Lawrence, April 7, 1987.) (return)
9) For a more detailed discussion of the types of refinements identified by Goodyear, see L. Ingleby Wood, “Mediaeval Architectural Refinements,” 1905, Scrapbooks [4.1.005], 1905–1907, 31. (return)
10) Goodyear to Fox, March 27, 1919, Department of Fine Arts [3.1.021]: Fox, William H., 1918–1919. (return)
11) This summary does not provide a complete list of towns, cities, and sites visited by Goodyear during his survey expeditions. See Visual materials series [6.1] and Research & writings series [2.2] for more information on sites. (return)
12) Goodyear to Fox, March 27, 1919, Department of Fine Arts [3.1.021]: Fox, William H., 1918–1919. (return)
13) The New York Times, Sunday July 4, 1909, Scrapbooks [4.1.006], 1906–1910, 27. (return)
14) Avery Hall was erected as a gift of Samuel P. Avery, a prominent art dealer who was also donor to the Brooklyn Museum. (return)
15) For a more complete list of images see Scrapbooks [4.1.009], 1913–1928, 124. (return)
16) The Sun, Nov. 10, 1918, Scrapbooks [4.1.010], 1909–1922, 42. (return)
17) W.H. Goodyear, Greek Refinements: Studies in Temperamental Architecture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1912), xx. (return)
18) The Nation, Sept. 25, 1913, Scrapbooks [4.1.008], 1912–1914, 172. A more critical review of Greek Refinements can be found in Scrapbooks [4.1.008], 1912–1914, 201. (return)
19) Goodyear to Reinach, November 26, 1913, General correspondence [1.1.077]: Reinach, 1913–1916. (return)
20) Unidentified clipping, March 1, 1914, Scrapbooks [4.1.009], 10. (return)
21) See Posthumous [5.1]. (return)
22) John Bilson, F.S.A., “Amiens Cathedral and Mr. Goodyear’s ‘Refinements’: A Criticism,” Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects 13 (1906): 416. (return)
23) W.H. Goodyear, “Architectural Refinements. A Reply to Mr. Bilson,” Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects 15 (1907): 18. (return)
24) W.H. Goodyear, “Temperamental Architecture in the New York Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine,” The Architect & Contract Reporter (May 19, 1911): 314–316. During construction many of the refinements may have been eliminated or restricted. (return)
25) An architectural plan of the Philadelphia Museum of Art with notes regarding refinements can be found in General correspondence [1.1.005]: Borie, C.L., 1921–22 (oversize). (return)
26) Goodyear to Crocker, General correspondence [1.1.017]: Crocker, 2/1919–5/1921. (return)
27) Wilford S. Conrow, “William Henry Goodyear, M.A.: An Appreciation,” Brooklyn Museum Quarterly 10 (1923): 118. (return)
28) Note that some records within the collection have 4-digit numbers handwritten on the upper right corners. The numbers seem to indicate that these documents were filed, at some point, in a departmental filing system, such as those found in the Records of the Department of Painting and Sculpture or Records of the Office of the Director. (return)
29) Since the Brooklyn Museum collection includes objects acquired by Goodyear that are known as the "Goodyear Collection," the qualifier "archival" is used to avoid confusion. (return)
30) According to scholar Mary Dean, Goodyear’s friend A. Kingsley Porter identified him as America’s first architectural historian. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 19 (NY: J.T. White, 1926), 455, states that Goodyear was "regarded as America’s first art historian." (return)
31) Goodyear to Wilbour, [July 20, 1887], General correspondence [1.1.093]:W, 1887-1923. The collections assembled by Charles Edwin Wilbour were donated by his heirs and form the nucleus of the Brooklyn Museum’s holdings of Egyptian art and of its Wilbour Library of Egyptology. (return)
32) See Department of Fine Arts [3.1.018-3.1.020]: Morris, Edward L., 1911–1912. (return)
33) Samuel Putnam Avery, Miscellaneous Material [MS 73424], Connecticut Historical Society Library. (return)