Guide to the The Donald Leslie Johnson Collection of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin Documents

Miscellaneous General Canberra and to 1910, 1901 - 1910 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS 7817)

Publications, photocopies of articles, notes on Canberra bibliography. Includes articles in Art and Architecture (1909), Building (1910), articles on town planning and Canberra (1942-76) and photocopy of Master of Architecture thesis Parliament House with special reference to the Australian National Capital by A.E.R. Purkis (1966).

Papers, 1911 - 1913 (File 2) - Box 1 (MS 7817)

Photocopies of articles, notes from articles, bibliographies. Includes articles in Building (1912), Architectural Review (1912), Advance Australia (1913), The Salon (1913), and The Builder (1913).

Papers, 1914 - 1921 (File 3) - Box 2 (MS 7817)

Photocopies of Griffin correspondence, photocopies of articles, notes from articles. Includes articles in Architecture, The Salon, Commonwealth Engineer, Chicago Commerce, Building, Herald.

Papers, 1922 - 1929 (File 4) - Box 2 (MS 7817)

Publications, photocopies of articles, typescript article by Johnson, cuttings on Canberra. Includes Town Planning for Australia / G.A. Taylor (1914), Recent Advances in Town Planning / T. Adams (London, 1932), articles in Building (1923), Progress (1924), and Table Talk (1926).

Papers, 1939 - 1959 (File 5) - Box 3 (MS 7817)

Reports, photocopies of articles, notes from articles, almost all relating to Canberra. Includes articles in Canberra Annual (1934), Decoration and Glass (1941),Architecture (1950), Architectural Record (1955), Town Planning Review (1958), Journal of Australian Planning Institute (1959).

Papers, 1963 - 1964 (File 6) - Box 3 (MS 7817)

Publications, photocopies of articles, cuttings, all relating to Canberra. Includes articles in Progress (1963), Architecture in Australia (1964), Australian Planning Institute Journal (1964), Constructional Review (1979).

Photocopies of Australian Parliamentary papers on the Federal Capital, 1912 - 1916 (File 7) - Box 4 (MS 7817)

Australian Parliamentary papers on the Federal Capital, 1915 - 1916 (File 8) - Box 4 (MS 7817)

Photocopy of report of Senate Select Committee on development of Canberra, 1955 (File 9) - Box 4 (MS 7817)

U.S. and Byrne's research, 1913 - 1972 (File 10) - Box 4 (MS 7817)

Photocopies of articles (1912-27) on the Prairie School and the American home; notes on Griffin (mainly lists of buildings) by John Byrne; miscellaneous notes on Griffin; copy of thesis Walter Burley Griffin : comprehensive subdivision planning in the Midwest / TA Heinz (1972).

Public landscape and cities, 1915 - 1931 (File 11) - Box 5 (MS 7817)

Photocopies of articles by Griffin on the town plan of Leeton (1915); copies of articles on Canberra, mainly in Building (1915-18); copies of articles on Hotel Australia, Capitol Theatre and other buildings (1916-31); copies of articles on G.A. Taylor and landscape architecture; notes by Johnson on public architecture.

Residential, Castlecrag, Newman, 1912 - 1981 (File 12) - Box 5 (MS 7817)

Photocopies of articles (1912-42) on houses of Griffin, including articles in Building Australia, Australian Home Beautiful, Australian Home Builder; photocopies of articles (1921-65) on Castlecrag and notes by Johnson; correspondence of Johnson (1978-81), notes, copies of articles on Griffin houses, and extracts from The Magic of America.

Incinerators, 1929 - 1969 (File 13) - Box 6 (MS 7817)

Photocopies of articles (1929-37), notes from articles and cuttings on Australian incinerators; correspondence of Johnson concerning incinerators in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne (1969).

India, Australia, and US, 1951 - 1954 (File 14) - Box 6 (MS 7817)

Miscellaneous notes; photocopies of articles (1951-4) on Griffin; photocopies of articles on Rudolph Steiner; draft of play about Griffin; manuscript Annie Besant in Australia / S. Perry; photocopies of theses The Biography of Walter Burley Griffin / S.F. Toh, and Walter Burley Griffin : his architecture and his attitudes / P. Doyle.

Papers re India, 1926 - 1976 (File 15) - Box 7 (MS 7817)

Miscellaneous notes; photocopies of articles (1926-76) on Indian art and architecture; typescripts Myth, Legend and Fact : Griffin in India, and An Indian Consummation : an American Expatriate Architect in Lucknow 1935-37 / Johnson.

Photocopy of report of the United Provinces Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition held at Lucknow, 1936-37 (107 p.), 1936 - 1937 (File 16) - Box 7 (MS 7817)

Papers re India, 1911 - 1976 (File 17) - Box 7 (MS 7817)

Papers of Johnson concerning his visits to India, including a diary, notebooks, travel documents and receipts (1975), Delhi and Lucknow correspondence (1975-8); Marion Mahony Griffin in India / typescript by Johnson; photocopies of articles in The Builder (1911-13).

New Delhi and John Sulman, 1909 - 1925 (File 18) - Box 7 (MS 7817)

Photocopies of articles and notes from articles on New Delhi (1912-25); copies of articles on John Sulman (1909-13); drafts of chapter on Sulman by Johnson.

Papers re New Delhi and John Sulman and Sir Edwin Lutyens, 1913 - 1965 (File 19) - Box 7 (MS 7817)

Photocopies of articles and notes on Sir Edwin Lutyens and New Delhi.

Photocopy of thesis Walter Burley Griffin / Nancy E. Price, 1933 (File 20) - Box 7 (MS 7817)

Photocopy of thesis Walter Burley Griffin : his architecture and his attitudes / KY Wong, 1957 (File 21) - Box 7 (MS 7817)

Photocopy of Thesis Walter Burley Griffin / M Chester and L Rudolph, n.d. (File 22) - Box 8 (MS 7817)

Photocopy of thesis The Philosophical Evolution of Castlecrag / Peter Bryant, 1967 (File 23) - Box 8 (MS 7817)

Photocopy of thesis Walter Burley Griffin : landscape architect / Peter Harrison, 1970 (File 24) - Box 8 (MS 7817)

Walter Burley Griffin followers, 1969 - 1981 (File 25) - Box 8 (MS 7817)

Subfolders contained in springloaded archival storage box - Billson, Lippincott, and Blackrock...

Followers - General, n.d. (File 26) - Box 8 (MS 7817)

Followers - Ballantyne, 1977 - 1978 (File 27) - Box 8 (MS 7817)

Followers - L. Grant, 1969 - 1979 (File 28) - Box 8 (MS 7817)

Followers - Lightfoot, 1977 (File 29) - Box 8 (MS 7817)

Followers - Nicholls, n.d. (File 30) - Box 8 (MS 7817)

America, 1 of 3, 1909 - 1926 (File 1) - Box 9 (MS 7817)

America, 2 of 3, 1909 - 1922 (File 2) - Box 9 (MS 7817)

America, 3 of 3, 1908 - 1913 (File 3) - Box 10 (MS 7817)

City planning (America and Australia), 1913 - 1971 (File 4) - Box 10 (MS 7817)

Castlecrag, 1 of 2, 1921 - 1965 (File 5) - Box 11 (MS 7817)

Castlecrag, 2 of 2, 1921 - 1965 (File 6) - Box 11 (MS 7817)

Domestic Australian architecture, non-Castlecrag, 1 of 2, 1919 - 1936 (File 7) - Box 12 (MS 7817)

Domestic Australian architecture, non-Castlecrag, 2 of 2, 1917 - 1935 (File 8) - Box 12 (MS 7817)

Australian commercial architecture, incl. Capitol Theatre, Melbourne, 1 of 2, 1913 - 1979 (File 9) - Box 13 (MS 7817)

Australian commercial architecture, incl. Capitol Theatre, Melbourne, 2 of 2, 1917 - 1921 (File 10) - Box 13 (MS 7817)

Photos and Material : Capitol Theatre, from Anton Lucas, n.d. (File 11) - Box 13 (MS 7817)

56 b&w photographs of Capitol Theatre architecture and interiors.

Canberra, 1912 - 1966 (File 12) - Box 14 (MS 7817)

Newman College, Adelaide, n.d. (File 13) - Box 14 (MS 7817)

Incinerators, 1 of 2, 1929 - 1950 (File 14) - Box 15 (MS 7817)

Incinerators, 2 of 2, 1933 - 1938 (File 15) - Box 15 (MS 7817)

Miscellaneous photographs, slides and negatives, incl. portraits, 1899 - 1978 (File 16) - Box 15 (MS 7817)

India, 1 of 2, 1936 - 1971 (File 17) - Box 16 (MS 7817)

India, 2 of 2, 1936 (File 18) - Box 16 (MS 7817)

India slides, 1975 (File 19) - Box 16 (MS 7817)