About this artwork
Project files, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, office papers, academic papers, personal papers,models and drawings documenting the work of American architect Gertrude Lempp Kerbis. These papers relate toKerbis’s early work at both Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Naess & Murphy (later C.F. Murphy) before starting herown firm, Lempp Kerbis Associates, the first female owned architectural firm in Chicago.
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Contact the Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archives:
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- AIC Archives
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Artist
- Gertrude Lempp Kerbis
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Title
- Gertrude Lempp Kerbis Archive
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Date
- 1948–2017
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Medium
- Drawings, correspondence, photographs slides, film negatives, posters, printed papers, manuscripts, typescriptpapers, maps, cd-rom, audiocassettes, models and daybook
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Dimensions
- 15 boxes, 2 portfolios, flatfile materials and 3 rolled tubes: H.: 670.6 cm (264 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of The Family of Gertrude Lempp Kerbis in December, 2018
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Reference Number
- 2018.7
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