Archives

Accession files, Department of Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
MOMA Exhibitions, Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. 
Norman Bel Geddes Theater and Industrial Design Papers, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.
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Swid Powell Archives, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
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