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The Archives maintains a non-circulating library of approximately 5500 historic and contemporary books and periodicals. In addition to a comprehensive collection of books on and by Frank Lloyd Wright, there are works on American, Asian and European art, architecture and culture. The collection also includes some 160 volumes dating from 1660 of Wright's personal library. Approximately 1,500 volumes from the library of Olgivanna Wright also have been inventoried. All the holdings are being entered in the on-line catalog of the William Wesley Peters Library of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture as special collections. |
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The Archives houses a collection of more than 7,000 historic photographs. This collection includes constructed buildings as well as Wright and his family and the apprentices of the Taliesin Fellowship. Originals exist in several formats, with some prints dating from the early 1890s, as well as a group of stereo slides made in the 1950s. A major part of Wright's personal collection of photographs of his work was copied for the Archives by the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities in 1985. Black and white copy prints are available for research and for loan for publication. In addition, the Archives continues to receive collections of photographs from a variety of sources. The collections, while not completely catalogued, currently hold over 30,000 images. |
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The manuscript collection comprises almost six hundred documents written for books, periodicals and lectures, both published and unpublished, from 1894 to 1959. The manuscripts make an important contribution to an understanding of both Wright's work and his place in cultural history. These records document his constancy to the principles of an "organic" architecture that he formulated in the 1890s and championed throughout his entire career. Along with the correspondence, the existence of the manuscripts immeasurably enhance the importance of the Wright Archives collection. |