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• Collection: Guide Records

• Title: Lamb Studios archive
• Other Title: Lamb collection
• Creator(s): Lamb Studios, artist
• Date Created/Published: 1869-2000, bulk 1890-1990.
• Medium: PR 13 CN 2003:109 ca. 2,871 drawings : most color ; 30 x 40 in. or smaller (check dimensions)
  PR 13 CN 2004:061 ca. 2,921 items.
• Summary: The Lamb Studios Archive features nearly 2,900 design sketches for stained glass windows, murals, mosaics, furnishings, metalwork, and interior architecture. The drawings are striking watercolors created from the 1860s to the 1990s, primarily for churches, synagogues, and other sacred spaces. Many artists designed works for the Studios including celebrated painter Ella Grace Condie (1862-1936), who married Charles Lamb, and their daughter Katharine Lamb Tait (1895-1981). In addition to the original artwork, the Lamb Studios Archive contains material that is still being processed, including photographs, business records, and printed ephemera that document at least 10,000 design projects.
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication,(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/550_lamb.html.)
  
• Access Advisory: Served by appointment (Unprocessed). To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html)
• Call Number: Guide Record (Filing series: LAMB) [P&P] Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2003:109 Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2004:061
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Arrangement: Organized in two filing series (1) Drawings, with the call number "LAMB," and (2) Business records in the processing reserves.
  • This preliminary catalog record contains draft information to be verified and expanded.
  • Cite as Lamb Studios Archive, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.
  • Collection title devised by Library staff.
  • Captioned in English.
  • Digitized images of the drawings, along with corresponding identifying information, are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/lambhtml/lambabt.html.
  • Container list for non-drawing material: Lamb.
  • Drawings: Gift; Donald and Donna Samick; 2003, 2011, 2013; (DLC/PP-2003:109).
  • Business records: Gift; Barea Lamb Seeley and Charles Anthony Lamb; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:061).
  • The J. & R. Lamb Studios is the oldest decorative arts firm and multi-media guild in continuous operation in the United States and preceded the studios of both John LaFarge and Louis C. Tiffany. The brothers Joseph Lamb (1833-1898) and Richard Lamb (1832-1909) founded the Studios in 1857 in New York City after leaving Lewisham, England. Joseph's son, Charles Rollinson Lamb (1860-1942), a renowned City Beautiful theorist and architect, greatly shaped the company's aesthetic and intellectual character and business direction. Lamb descendents ran the Studios until Karl B. Lamb's death. In 1970, Lamb Studios artist Donald Samick bought the firm and remains its owner in 2006.
• Format:
  • Drawings--Color--1860-2000.
  • Watercolors--Color--1860-2000.
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  • Guide Records
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/550_lamb.html.
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• Call Number: Guide Record (Filing series: LAMB) [P&P] Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2003:109 Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2004:061
• Medium: PR 13 CN 2003:109 ca. 2,871 drawings : most color ; 30 x 40 in. or smaller (check dimensions)
  PR 13 CN 2004:061 ca. 2,921 items.

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• Call Number: Guide Record (Filing series: LAMB) [P&P] Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2003:109 Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2004:061
• Medium: PR 13 CN 2003:109 ca. 2,871 drawings : most color ; 30 x 40 in. or smaller (check dimensions)
  PR 13 CN 2004:061 ca. 2,921 items.
• Access Advisory: Served by appointment (Unprocessed). To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html

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