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• Title: Photographs for an exhibition ("Mathematica"), and typography and images used in graphic design projects
• Related Names:
     Office of Charles and Ray Eames , designer
     International Business Machines Corporation , client
• Date Created/Published: 1951-1964.
• Medium: 1,030 photographic prints : b&w ; 4x5 in. or smaller.
• Summary: Photographs assembled to produce the Mathematica exhibition sponsored by IBM: copies of engravings and text from books published probably from the 16th century through 1950, including portraits of scientists (chiefly mathematicians), diagrams, and illustrations presenting mathematical concepts of the last several hundred years; city views and maps for the History Wall (a timeline documenting the evolution of mathematics from A.D. 1100 to 1950) and the Image Wall (visual demonstrations of mathematical principles). Includes photographs of graphics used by the Eames Office for labels, signs, toys, and other projects: typography; silhouettes of furniture; shapes used in the Coloring Toy; and drawings, photographs, and engravings for Giant House of Cards. Includes a few images related to short films "Two Baroque Churches in Germany" and "Introduction to Feedback."
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "The Work of Charles and Ray Eames,"(http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/069_eame.html)
  
• Call Number: LOT 13172 (G) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
• Notes:
  • Arrangement: Organized into nine LOT subdivisons.
  • Finding aid available in Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
  • Mathematica: a world of numbers and beyond, opened in 1961 at the California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, California, and at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois.
  • LOT title devised; few photographs have individual captions.
  • Eames office inventory location: Drawer 03.A.04a.
  • Corresponding negatives in series LC-E12, LC-E21, and LC-E22.
  • Many of these photographs are copies of images from books in the collections of the Butler Library, Columbia University. Other photographs were taken by Charles Eames, Ray Eames, or others Eames Office staff members.
  • Some project information from Neuhart's Eames design: the work of the office of Charles and Ray Eames, 1989.
  • Forms part of the collection known as the "Work of Charles and Ray Eames."
  • Gift; Ray Eames; 1989; (DLC/PP-1989:150).
• Subjects:
  • International Business Machines Corporation--Exhibitions & displays--1950-1970.
  • Office of Charles and Ray Eames--Exhibitions & displays--1950-1970.
  • Exhibitions--California--Los Angeles--1950-1970.
  • Exhibitions--Illinois--Chicago--1950-1970.
  • Graphic design--1950-1970.
  • Mathematicians--1500-1970.
  • Mathematics--1100-1970.
  • Toys--1950-1970.
  • Cards--1950-1970.
  • Short films--1950-1970.
• Format:
  • Engravings--Reproductions--1950-1970.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1950-1970.
  • Portraits--Reproductions--1950-1970.
• Collections:
  • Groups of Images (LOTs)
• Part of: Work of Charles and Ray Eames (Library of Congress)
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Groups of Images (LOTs)

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• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "The Work of Charles and Ray Eames," http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/069_eame.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: LOT 13172 (G) [P&P]
• Medium: 1,030 photographic prints : b&w ; 4x5 in. or smaller.

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• Call Number: LOT 13172 (G) [P&P]
• Medium: 1,030 photographic prints : b&w ; 4x5 in. or smaller.

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