Title: Lynn Anderson Collection
Inclusive Dates: circa 1901-circa 1987

Creator:

• Anderson, Lynn

Call Number: PH 6454

Quantity: 0.2 c. f. and 760 photographs in 4 archives boxes, and 6 drawings and 2 posters in 1 flat box and 1 folder

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Postcards, photographs, drawings, ephemera, manuscript items, publications, posters, and blueprints collected and created by architect Lynn Anderson documenting the work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. After graduating from engineering and architecture school, Anderson went to work for Wright as a family server and, after Wright's death, stayed on as a architect with Taliesin Associated Architects. Of particular note are the images of the aftermath of the fire and murders at Wright's home in 1914 including the hatchet used in the murders, and images of the destruction in Tokyo after the 1921 earthquake.

Note:

There is a restriction on access to some of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ph06454

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Architect Lynn Anderson, a Clinton, Wisconsin native, knew she wanted to be an architect after reading Frank Lloyd Wright's Nature of Materials as a teenager. Anderson studied engineering and architecture at a Florida college, and, upon returning to Wisconsin, went to Taliesin in Spring Green to meet Mr. Wright and apply for a job. Anderson was hired by Wright as a “family server,” a position she held for five years until Wright's death in 1959. After his death, Anderson worked for several years as an architect with Taliesin Associated Architects, eventually leaving Taliesin and working for several Milwaukee-based architectural firms until her retirement.

The collection does not focus on Lynn Anderson's work at Taliesin or her career as an architect but rather documents the work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, mainly through photographic postcards. The collection also includes a few photographs that are not on postcard stock, some published materials, several reproductions of drawings, and a small amount of manuscript material. Although Anderson may have acquired some of this material during her time working for Wright, most likely the majority was purchased after she left Taliesin. The collection is organized into three series: POSTCARDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS, PUBLISHED WORKS, and DRAWINGS AND SPECIFICATIONS.

The POSTCARDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS series is divided into four sections: architecture, graphic designs, advertising, and people. The bulk of this series consists of photographic postcards of Wright-designed buildings, many of which were likely produced as souvenirs for the structure. Of particular note are the images of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, located near Spring Green, which document the building both before and after the 1914 fire and murders of Wright's family as well as the destruction and aftermath of that event. Other notable items in the series include a set of ACME Studios Trading Cards of Falling Water, postcards showing the Wright-designed Larkin building and its relationship to the rest of the Larkin Company complex, and two postcards of the destruction around the Imperial Hotel after the 1921 earthquake. In addition to buildings, the series also includes graphics designed by Wright, advertising for Wright-related events, and images of Wright and his family. Of the family imagery, the most important is a 1949 image of Wright with his daughter Catherine Dorothy Wright Baxter and her daughter, Wright's granddaughter, actress Anne Baxter, at Taliesin West taken just prior to Wright's death.

The PUBLICATIONS series includes magazine articles written by and about Wright discussing his architecture and his architectural philosophy. Included is a page from a 1901 Ladies Home Journal featuring a house designed by Wright for the magazine. Also in this series are two posters for events showcasing Wright and his architecture.

The DRAWINGS AND SPECIFICATIONS series includes the specifications and directories for the phone system at Taliesin West in Arizona and blueprints for the V.C. Morris Gift Shop and the Taliesin West Pavilion Stage lighting. Also included is a drawing of the Wisconsin River Terrace Restaurant near Spring Green, drawn by Lynn Anderson purportedly under the direction of Wright.

Access Restrictions

Vintage prints of the destruction from the fire at Taliesin and of the aftermath of the Tokyo earthquake may be used only with permission of the Visual Materials Curator or the Visual Materials Archivist. For researcher convenience, digital prints of these images are included in the collection and are available for use.

Acquisition Information

Purchased from Lynn Anderson. Accession Number: M2005-124

Processing Information

Processed by David Benjamin, 2007-2008.

	Series: Postcards and Photographs
	Buildings
Box   1 Folder   1	Adams, Harry S., Residence (Oak Park, Ill.)
Box   1 Folder   2	American System-Built Houses
Box   1 Folder   3	Anderton Court Shops (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Box   1 Folder   4	Arizona Biltmore Hotel (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Box   1 Folder   5	Arizona State Capitol “Oasis” (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Box   1 Folder   6	Bailleres, Paul, Residence (Acapulco, Mexico)
Box   1 Folder   7	Baker, Frank J., Residence (Wilmette, Ill.)
Box   1 Folder   8	Balch, O. B. Residence (Oak Park, Ill.)
Box   1 Folder   9	Barnsdall, Aline, Residence, “Hollyhock House” (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Box   1 Folder   10	Beachy, Peter A., Residence (Oak Park, Ill.)
Box   1 Folder   11	Beth Sholom Synagogue (Elkins Park, Penn.)
Box   1 Folder   12	Bogk, Frederick C., Residence (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Box   1 Folder   13	Booth, Sherman M., Residence (Glencoe, Ill.)
Box   1 Folder   14	Boynton, E.E., Residence (Rochester, N.Y.)
Box   1 Folder   15	Bradley, B. Harley, Residence (Kankakee, Ill.)
Box   1 Folder   16	Cinema for San Diego (San Diego, Calif.)
Box   1 Folder   17	City National Bank Building (Mason City, Iowa)
Box   1 Folder   18	Coonley, Avery, Residence (Riverside, Ill.)
Box   1 Folder   19	Copeland, W.H., Residence (Oak Park, Ill.). Alterations
Box   1 Folder   20	Dallas Theatre Center (Dallas, Texas)
Box   1 Folder   21	Dana-Thomas Residence (Springfield, Ill.)
Box   1 Folder   22	Davidson, Walter V., Prefabricated Farm Unit
Box   1 Folder   22	DeRhodes, K.C., Residence (South Bend, Ind.)
Box   1 Folder   24	Doheny Ranch Resort (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Box   1 Folder   25	Donahoe, Mrs. Daniel, Residence (Paradise Valley, Ariz.). “Donahoe Triptych”
Box   1 Folder   26	Ennis, Charles, Residence (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Box   1 Folder   27	Evans, Raymond W., Residence (Chicago, Ill.)
	Falling Water (Bear Run, Penn.)
Box   1 Folder   28	Exterior
Box   1 Folder   29	Interior
Box   1 Folder   30	Guest House
Box   1 Folder   31	ACME Studios Trading Cards
Box   1 Folder   32	Ephemera
Box   1 Folder   33	First Christian Church (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Box   1 Folder   34	Florida Southern College (Lakeland, Fla.)
Box   1 Folder   35	Fukuhara Residence (Gora, Hakone, Japan)
Box   1 Folder   36	Gale, Mrs. Thomas H., Residence (Oak Park, Ill.)
Box   1 Folder   37	Gammage Memorial Auditorium (Tempe, Ariz.)
Box   1 Folder   38	German, A.D., Warehouse (Richland Center, Wis.)
Box   1 Folder   39	Golden Beacon (Chicago, Ill.)
Box   1 Folder   40	Gordon Strong Planetarium (Sugar Loaf Mountain, Md.)
Box   1 Folder   41	Greek Orthodox Church (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Box   1 Folder   42	Hardy, Thomas Paul, Residence (Racine, Wis.)
Box   1 Folder   43	Hayashi Residence (Tokyo, Japan)
Box   2 Folder   1	Hillside (Spring Green, Wis.). Willow Walk
Box   2 Folder   2	Hillside Home School I (Spring Green, Wis. : 1887 - 1950)
Box   2 Folder   3	Hillside Home School II (Spring Green, Wis. : 1902 - 1933)
Box   2 Folder   4	Imperial Hotel (Tokyo, Japan : 1890)
	Imperial Hotel [Teikoku Hoteru] (Tokyo, Japan : 1923-1967)
Box   2 Folder   5	Exterior Views
Box   2 Folder   6	Interior Views
Box   2 Folder   7	Ephemera
Box   3 Folder   26	Imperial Hotel after the , 1921 earthquake in Tokyo
Box   2 Folder   8	Jiyu Gakuen Girl's School (Tokyo, Japan)
Box   2 Folder   9	Johnson Wax Building (Racine, Wis.)
Box   2 Folder   10	Jones, Richard Llyod, Residence (Tulsa, Okla.)
Box   2 Folder   11	Kaufmann Office (Pittsburgh, Penn.). Reconstruction
Box   2 Folder   12	L'Opera de Bagdad (Bagdad, Iraq)
Box   2 Folder   13	Lake Geneva Inn (Lake Geneva, Wis.)
Box   2 Folder   14	Lake Tahoe Summer Colony (Lake Tahoe, Calif.)
Box   2 Folder   15	Larkin Building (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Box   2 Folder   16	Lenkurt Electric Company (San Carlos, Calif.)
Box   2 Folder   17	Lindholm Service Station (Cloquet, Minn.)
Box   2 Folder   18	Little Dipper Kindergarten and Playhouse (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Box   2 Folder   19	Little Residence II, “Northome” (Deephaven, Minn.)
Box   2 Folder   20	Lovness, Donald, Residence (Stillwater, Okla.). Furniture
Box   2 Folder   21	Marin County Civic Center (San Rafael, Calif.). Administration Building
Box   2 Folder   22	Marin County Fair Pavilion (San Rafael, Calif.)
Box   2 Folder   23	May, Meyer, Residence (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Box   2 Folder   24	Midway Gardens (Chicago, Ill.)
Box   2 Folder   25	Millard, George E., Residence (Highland Park, Ill.)
Box   2 Folder   26	Monona Terrace (Madison, Wis.)
Box   2 Folder   27	Morris Gift Shop (San Francisco, Calif.)
Box   2 Folder   28	Morris, V.C., Residence “Seacliff” (San Francisco, Calif.)
Box   2 Folder   29	Park Inn Hotel (Mason City, Iowa)
Box   2 Folder   30	Peterson, Seth, Cottage (Lake Delton, Wis.)
Box   2 Folder   31	Petit Memorial Chapel (Belvidere, Ill.)
Box   2 Folder   32	Pittsburgh Point Civic Center (Pittsburgh, Penn.)
Box   2 Folder   33	Point Park Twin Bridges (Pittsburgh, Penn.)
Box   2 Folder   34	Point View Residences (Pittsburgh, Penn.)
Box   2 Folder   35	Price Tower (Bartlesville, Okla.)
Box   2 Folder   36	Ravine Bluff Bridge (Glencoe, Ill.)
Box   2 Folder   37	Riverview Terrace Restaurant (Spring Green, Wis.)
Box   2 Folder   38	Roberts, Isabel, Residence (River Forest, Ill.)
Box   3 Folder   1	Robie, Frederick, Residence (Chicago, Ill.)
Box   3 Folder   2	Rockery Building Remodeling (Chicago, Ill.)
Box   3 Folder   3	Romeo and Juliet (Spring Green, Wis.)
Box   3 Folder   4	Shaw, C. Thaxter, Residence (Montreal, Canada)
Box   3 Folder   5	St. Mark's-In-The-Bouwerie Towers (New York, N.Y.)
Box   3 Folder   6	Storer, John, Residence (Hollywood, Calif.)
Box   3 Folder   7	Taliesin Dam (Spring Green, Wis.)
Box   3 Folder   8	Taliesin (Spring Green, Wis.)
Box   3 Folder   9	Taliesin Fellowship Complex (, 1933- )
Box   3 Folder   10	Trinity Chapel, University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.)
Box   3 Folder   11	Unitarian Meeting House (Madison, Wis.)
Box   3 Folder   12	Unity Temple (Oak Park, Ill.)
Box   3 Folder   13	Wingspread (Wind Point, Wis.)
Box   3 Folder   14	Winslow, William H., Residence (River Forest, Ill.)
Box   3 Folder   15	Wright, Frank Lloyd, Residence and Studio (Oak Park, Ill.)
Box   3 Folder   16	Yamamura Residence (Ashiya, Japan)
Box   3 Folder   17	Zimmerman, Isadore J. and Lucille, Residence (Manchester, N.H.)
	Graphic Designs
Box   3 Folder   18	Fabric (Design No. 104)
Box   3 Folder   19	Liberty Magazine covers
	Advertising
Box   3 Folder   20	Wichita Postcard Club Show
Box   3 Folder   21	Wright-related gallery openings, talks, events, etc.
Box   3 Folder   22	“Bucherzettel-An Ernst Wasmuth A.-G., Berline W8”
	People
Box   3 Folder   23	Frank Lloyd Wright and his family at Ocotillo Desert Camp
Box   3 Folder   24	Frank Lloyd Wright and Olgivanna Wright seated in a buggy
Box   3 Folder   25	Frank Lloyd Wright, daughter Catherine Dorothy Wright Baxter, and granddaughter Anne Baxter at Taliesin West, Easter 1959
	Series: Published Works	⇧
	Publications
	Arizona Highways
Box   4 Folder   1	October 1949
Box   4 Folder   2	February 1956
Box   5 Folder   1	Ladies Home Journal, February 1901, “A Home In A Prairie Town”
	Posters
Box   5 Folder   5	Greater Chicago Celebrates National Historic Preservation Week, May 10-17, 1981
Oversize Folder   1	Milwaukee Art Museum, “Frank Lloyd Wright And The Johnson Wax Buildings: Creating A Corporate Cathedral,” 1987
	Series: Drawings and Specificatons	⇧
	Telephone System Design, Taliesin West (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
Box   4 Folder   3	Specifications, description, and directories
Box   5 Folder   2	Drawings
Box   5 Folder   3	V.C. Morris Gift Shop blueprint
Box   5 Folder   4	Taliesin West (Scottsdale, Ariz.) Pavilion Stage lighting
Oversize Folder   1	Wisconsin River Terrace Restaurant (Spring Green, Wis.)