Waterfront design study, 1929
Collection Overview
This is an oversized scrapbook of photographs and clippings about the design of waterfronts for cities worldwide. It includes 20 professionally made 8x10 photographs and several dozen pages of clippings. The cities best represented are Paris (4), Havanna (3), and Nice (2). Other cities represented by one photograph each are Cannes, Chicago, Cologne, Hamburg, Leningrad, Moscow, Naples, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, and San Sabastain (Spain). The cities represented by the clippings from newspapers and magazines include Boston, Bridgeport (Massachusetts), Charleston, Chicago, New York City, Santa Barbara, and Toronto. The information on Charleston consists of an article about Murray Boulevard from the "Detroit News" (24 July 1927) and an article on the MacElwee Plan to extend Murray Boulevard along the Ashley River from Tradd Street to Mount Pleasant Street published in the "News & Courier" (31 March 1929).
Dates
- Creation: 1929
Creator
- From the Collection: MacElwee, Roy S. (Roy Samuel), 1883-1944 (Person)
Language of Material
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 1.75 linear feet (1 oversize flat box)
Dimensions
62 x 46 cm.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
Special Collections
College of Charleston Libraries
66 George Street
Charleston South Carolina 29424
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