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Barbara and Ken Isaacs seated inside the Shoebox House or Old Microhouse at Groveland
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Identifier: 202101_51_02_06
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Book jacket, How To Build Your Own Living Structures
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Identifier: 202101_40_10
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-06
Contact sheet; Cover art, How to Build Your Own Living Structure book, c. 1973
File — Box: 71, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Records Isaacs’ design work, including studio and process shots, and classroom activity and student work. There are also some personal photographs of Isaacs’ parents, his youth, and his family. Most photos were created by or for Isaacs, although some are copies by photojournalists covering Isaacs for newspapers and magazines. Photographic prints and transparencies make up most of the series, though there are recordings of lectures by and about Isaacs, audio notes, media appearances, and...
Dates:
c. 1973
Family Photoshoot for How to Build Your Own Living Structures Book Cover Art
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Identifier: 202101_71_14_01
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Ken and Barbara Isaacs at Shoebox House with Colorful Flowerpots
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Identifier: 202101_69_18_02
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Ken, Carole, Joshua Henry and Seven More Around the Shoebox House Porch
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Identifier: 202101_70_18_04
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Ken Isaacs project pack, mixed originals and copies, undated
File — Box: 50, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates:
undated
Ken Isaacs Scales Second Story of the Shoebox House at Groveland
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_69_18_01
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Letters; Bob Smith at Chicago's American, 1963 - 1965
File — Box: 52, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Comprises Isaacs’ personal reference library, used by him for in-house reference as well as in press kits. For business, he produced and kept documentation files including drawings, plans and photographs about his designs and copies of any media coverage.
Dates:
1963 - 1965
Presentation binder, green; Drawing copies, photographic material, 2000 - 2016
File — Box: 51, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates:
Modified: 2000 - 2016
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