University of Wyoming
Julian H. Whittlesey (1905-1995) was a prominent architect and city planner who practiced in the United States, Canada, Africa, and India. He studied civil engineering and architecture at Yale, earning degrees in 1927 and 1930. He also studied on a fellowship to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. In the 1930s, Whittlesey worked for the U.S. Public Housing Administration and the Resettlement Administration, which was a New Deal U.S. federal agency created in 1935 to relocate struggling urban and rural families to communities planned by the federal government. In 1935, he co-founded with Albert Mayer the firm Mayer and Whittlesey (later Mayer, Whittlesey and Glass). The firm designed Manhattan House and other large buildings. They also helped design the cities of Kitimat, British Columbia, and Chandigarh, India. During World War II, he designed military-related housing and administrative buildings. In the 1950s, he co-founded Whittlesey Conklin and Rossant, which designed Reston, Virginia. He became a partner and consultant to Planners, Inc. in Washington, DC, which primarily did projects in Latin America and Africa for the World Bank. He also served as field architect with the American School of Classical Studies in Greece. He was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; fellow and research associate of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania; trustee and director of the Foundation for Cooperative Housing from 1958 to 1971; trustee and director of the Community Development Foundation and its subsidiary TechniCo-op, Inc.; treasurer of the Association for Field Archaeology; and president and treasurer of Whittlesey Foundation, Inc. He authored
The collection contains biographical information, personal and professional correspondence (1940-1987) concerning his interests in wind power, the Whittlesey Foundation, the Foucault pendulum, and other matters. Included are his book on photogrammetry and a manuscript on time. There are magazine articles by Julian Whittlesey on such subjects as multi-band camera for archaeology, aerial photo balloon, bipod camera support, photogrammetry for the excavator, and reviews. The collection contains newsletters of the Whittlesey Foundation, accounts of activities, programs, and related materials. Additionally, there is a diagram of the Robert Fulton balloon to be used for aerial photography by Whittlesey, and photographs of unknown archaeological diggings, Whittlesey ballooning (1971), and of an archaeological site at Sarafand in Lebanon.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Julian H. Whittlesey at the date of processing. The American Heritage Center has the papers of Albert Mayer. The University of Chicago Library has the Albert Mayer Papers on India, which includes material related to Julian H. Whittlesey.
This material was received from Julian H. Whittlesey between 1973 and 1988.
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