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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Edmund Randolph Purves papers, 1916-1964 (bulk 1950-1964)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Purves, Edmund Randolph</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1897-1964</namePart>
    <role>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>2,000</extent>
    <extent>7</extent>
    <extent>2.8</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches, articles, appointment calendars, architectural drawings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Purves's career as director and executive director of the American Institute of Architects.  Also includes material pertaining to his military service in World War I and World War II.  Correspondents include Leon Chatelain, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Purves (Purvis) family members.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Architect.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012111">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012111</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chatelain, Leon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1979</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wright, Frank Lloyd</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1867-1959</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Purvis family</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Institute of Architects.</namePart>
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  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Architecture</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Architecture</topic>
    <topic>Societies, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1914-1918</topic>
    <topic>Personal narratives, American</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World War, 1939-1945</topic>
    <topic>Personal narratives, American</topic>
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    <occupation>Architects</occupation>
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