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Fletcher Steele - Landscape Architect: Postcard Collection

Jane Verostek - Associate Librarian at SUNY ESF created this guide to provide information about landscape architect Fletcher Steele. The SUNY ESF Archives and Special Collections contains the personal and business archives of Steele.

Steele's Postcard Collection

Fletcher Steele's Postcard Collection

Fletcher Steele's postcard collection is arranged as we received it with Steele's original hand written divider tabs noting the different locations he visited and/or that he received postcards from. Many of the gardens Steele designed in the United States were influenced by what he saw in his travels. Postcards in his collection include real-photo postcards along with standard mass produced postcards. Some postcards Steele purchased to remember a certain location, garden, architectural detail, etc. and some postcards are ones Steele received. There are 10 boxes of postcards.When possible the year or year ranges have been noted.

Inventory of Steele's Postcard Collection Box 1

Box	Country	City	# postcards	# photos	Year Range
1	Spain	Valladolid	1
1	Spain	-	1	5	1928
1	Spain	Alqeciras		10	1936
1	Spain	Barcelona	4	3	1928-1929
1	Spain	Barcelona		2	1929-1930
1	Spain	Barcelona – El Laberinto		18	1936
1	Spain	Barcelona – Cathedral		4
1	Spain	Cordova	3	Book of 24 6 individual	1929-1930
1	Spain	Cordova – Cathedral mosque	4	3	1922
1	Spain	Cordova Patio	1	15
1	Spain	Cordova - Viana	1	12
1	Spain	Granada	6	5
1	Spain	Granada – Acosta		5
1	Spain	Granada - Albaicin	2
1	Spain	Granada – Alhambra	33	23
1	Spain	Granada – Generalife	15	34	1956
1	Spain	Jerez		11	1936
1	Spain	Madrid		3
1	Spain	Malaga		8
1	Spain	Malaga – El suspiro – Loring		7
1	Spain	Malaga - El Retiro		16
1	Spain	San Jose
1	Spain	Mallorca	9	1	1936
1	Spain	Mallorca – Palma	14	20	1930
1	Spain	Mallorca - Pollensa	4	3	1936
1	Spain	Mallorca – El Terreno		2
1	Spain	Alfabia
1	Spain	Mallorca - Camp de Mar		1
1	Spain	Mallorca – Galatzo		3	1932
1	Spain	Mallorca – La Granja	6	5
1	Spain	Mallorca – Inca		1
1	Spain	Mallorca - Raxa		22	1936
1	Spain	Mallorca – Sarria
1	Spain	Mallorca – Geuova – San Batle	1	3	1930 - 1936
1	Spain	Mallorca – San Berga		6
1	Spain	Mallorca – San Ponza		6
1	Spain	Mallorca – Valdemosa	1	1
1	Spain	Mallorca – Ronda	5	64	1936
1	Spain	Seville	3	62	1922 - 1926
1	Spain	Mallorca – Raxa		2
1	Spain	Seville – Murillo		11
1	Spain	Seville – Museo		7
1	Spain	Seville – Sanchez Dalp		4
1	Spain	Seville – Viriato		4
1	Spain	Toledo	6	1
1	Spain	Valencia	5	9

Inventory of Steele's Postcard Collection Box 2

Box	Country	City	# postcards	# photos	Year Range
2	France	Poissy	12	11	1916 - 1965
2	France	Gardens	4	14	1929 - 1953
2	France	Albi		2	1928
2	France	Amboise	2
2	France	Amiens	2	3	1929
2	France	Arles	3	1	1909
2	France	Avignon	2		1920
2	France	Azay-le-Rideau	2	3
2	France	Beauvais	2
2	France	Blois	3	1
2	France	Bourges		10	1929
2	France	Brecourt		36
2	France	Breteuil		1
2	France	Cannes		1
2	France	Carcassonne	2		1922
2	France	Chantilly	5	9
2	France	Charost		9	1929
2	France	Chenonceaux	4
2	France	Chateau Cheverny	2
2	France	Compiegne	3	2
2	France	Dampierre		3
2	France	Enghien		6	1929
2	France	Fontainebleau	15	8	1929 - 1931
2	France	Givernay		2
2	France	La Grange Chateau	1	5
2	France	Langeais	1
2	France	Lourdes	1
2	France	Lude	1	2
2	France	Maintenon Chateau	1
2	France	Marly		3
2	France	Mont St. Michel	3		1949
2	France	Nancy	17
2	France	Nes le la vallee		8
2	France	Nimes	6
2	France	Paris	65	32	1929 - 1961
2	France	Paris - Luxembourg	16	9
2	France	Buttes – Chaumont	5	16	1929
2	France	Pierrefonds	5
2	France	Poitiers	6
2	France	Pontoise		16	1929
2	France	Provins	1	2
2	France	La Puy	2		1920
2	France	Rambouillet	8	8	1929
2	France	Rheims	2		1920
2	France	Rocomadour	11	2
2	France	Rolleboise		1
2	France	Rouen	4	1	1921
2	France	Sceaux		2
2	France	Senlis	1	2	1929
2	France	Sevres		6	1929
2	France	Soissons	2		1921
2	France	Strassburg	2
2	France	St. Cloud	6		1922
2	France	St. Germain	1
2	France	Tessaucourt	1	2	1929
2	France	Tours	1	1	1929
2	France	Vaux Le Vicompte Chateau	6	12
2	France	Versailles		41	1924 - 1929
2	France	Versailles Chateaux	59	34	1913-1933
2	France	Versailles - Trkanon	14	2	1913 - 1928
2	France	Chateau Villandry	3

Inventory of Steele's Postcard Collection Box 3

Box	Country	City	# postcards	# photos	Year Range
3	Thailand		1
3	Turkey		9	25	1929
3	West Indies & Central America		5	32	1954 - 1959
3	Guatemala		6		1948
3	Switzerland		7	2	1909 - 1949
3	Sweden		6	7	1952
3	Sweden	Grenna	5	5
3	Sweden	Halmstadt		7
3	Sweden	Linkoping		24
3	Sweden	Saltsjobaden	2	5
3	Sweden	Stockholm	32	41
3	Sweden	Engelbrekiskyrkan	17	6
3	Sweden	Stockholm – City Hall	29	9
3	Sweden	Stockholm Exp. 1930	9	22	1909 – 1930
3	Sweden	C. Milles Garden	1		1906

Box 4

Box	Country	City	# postcards	# photos	Year Range
4	Guatemala			4	1937
4	Germany		15	12	1932
4	Germany	Potsdam	2	8
4	Germany	Munich	11
4	Greece		3	1
4	India		2		1930 – 1933
4	Japan		2	2
4	Japan	Horyuji	16		1929 - 1953
4	Japan	Kamakura	4	10
4	Japan	Kyoto	11	64	1931 - 1963
4	Japan	Kyoto Arashyma		9
4	Japan	Nagasaki		5
4	Japan	Nara	8	20
4	Japan	Tokio	7	16	1957
4	Japan	Uji		3
4	Africa	Africa	3		1967
4	Austria	Vienna	9	7
4	Austria	Schonbrun	3	14
4	Azores	Madeira	2	1	1910
4	Filed under Canada	Really Guatemala – Guatemala City	1		1937

Inventory of Steele's Postcard Collection Box 5

Box	Country	City	# postcards	# photos	Year Range
5	China		1	18	1934
5	China	Chieh Tai Ssu		73	1955
5	China	Tan C’hih Ssu		49
5	China	Peking	29	33
5	China	Peking Temple of Heaven	2	7
5	China	Peking Ming garden Mr. Wellington Koo		11
5	China	Peking Lama Temple		8
5	China	Ku Wang Hsien		15
5	China	Shanghai		18
5	China	Soo Chow		33
5	China	Tai Yuan Fou		7
5	China	Ting Chou (Hsien)		13
5	China	Wu Tai Shan	1	81	1936
5	China	Wu Tai Hsien		1
5	China	Wu Tai Travel		48
5	Denmark			8
5	Denmark	Copenhagen	11	22
5	East Indies		1
5	East Indies	Java	1		1931
5	England, Great Britain and Ireland		18	25	1920 - 1936
5	England	London	16
5	Ireland		1	2
5	Unknown	unknown		17
5	China	Perip		7	1939

Inventory of Steele's Postcard Collection Box 6

Box	Country	City	# postcards	# photos	Year Range
6	United States		4	1	1928-1966
6	Connecticut	Simsbury		34	1962
6	Connecticut	South Norwalk		2
6	Hawaii	Honolulu		22
6	Illinois			2	1914
6	Louisiana		14		1939
6	Maine		10	5	1937
6	Maine	Bangor	4	11	1957
6	Maine	Portland	1
6	Maryland		1		1911
6	Massachusetts		6	5	1966-1970
6	Massachusetts	Boston	53		1950
6	Massachusetts	Brookline	3	3	1958
6	Massachusetts	Cambridge	2	9	1944
6	Massachusetts	Cape Cod	2
6	Massachusetts	Concord	11	4	1925
6	Massachusetts	Gloucester	1	20	1939
6	Massachusetts	Manchester		4
6	Massachusetts	Marion-Medford-Melrose	3		1955
6	Massachusetts	Nantucket	7	1	1952
6	Massachusetts	Needham	1	1	1957
6	Massachusetts	Salem	6
6	Massachusetts	Sheffield	1
6	Massachusetts	Stockbridge	12	30	1940
6	Massachusetts	Waverley	1
6	Massachusetts	Williamstown	45	2	1968
6	Michigan			8
6	Minnesota		1
6	New Hampshire		2		1951
6	New Hampshire	Cornish	2
6	New Hampshire	Jaffrey	4		1921
6	New Hampshire	Peterborough	9
6	New Hampshire	Portsmouth	6		1926
6	New Hampshire	Squam Lake	2
6	New Jersey			4	1961
6	New York		4
6	New York	Albany	1
6	New York	Glenora	5
6	New York	Rochester	4	32
6	New York	Pittsford	15	11
6	North Carolina		1		1912
6	Ohio		1		1912
6	Pennsylvania			8
6	Pennsylvania	Bethlehem	1
6	Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	2	19
6	Rhode Island	Providence	1	1	1967

Inventory of Steele's Postcard Collection Box 7

Box	Country	City	# postcards	# photos	Year Range
7	South Carolina	Charleston	8	3
7	South West		13	58
7	Virginia		7	8
7	Virginia	Charlottesville	10
7	Virginia	Lexington	1
7	Virginia	Lynchburg	3
7	Virginia	Natural Bridge	1
7	Virginia	Orange	2
7	Virginia	Richmond	3
7	Virginia	Warm Springs	3	8	1912
7	Wyoming		5	3
7	Wyoming	Yellowstone Park		11
7	Wyoming	Arapahoe		4	1920
7	Alaska		1
7	Arizona			5
7	New Mexico		5	7
7	Italy		15	14
7	Italy	Caserta	10	1
7	Italy	Collodi		8
7	Italy	Florence	33	29	1913
7	Italy	Frascati	5	6
7	Italy	Genoa		2
7	Italy	Herculaneum		11
7	Italy	Lakes	18	8	1923
7	Italy	Lucca	8	1
7	Italy	Montecassino	6
7	Italy	Naples	11	30
7	Italy	Padula		16
7	Italy	Pompeii	7		1921
7	Italy	Ravenna	3
7	Italy	Rome	48	17	1937-1955

Inventory of Steele's Postcard Collection Box 8

Box	Country	City	# postcards	# photos	Year Range
8	Italy	Siena	4		1928
8	Italy	Tivoli	5	11	1913-1956
8	Italy	Venice	40	2	1933-1958
8	Italy	Viterbo	30	19	1922-1933
8	Sicily		1	7	1963
8	Sicily	Agrigentum		4
8	Sicily	Bagheria		17
8	Sicily	Cefalu		4
8	Sicily	Modica		4
8	Sicily	Monreale	3		1938
8	Sicily	Palermo	7	6	1930
8	Sicily	Raguso		1
8	Sicily	Syracuse	4	6
8	Sicily	Taormina	1	20	1936
8	Madiera		2	1
8	Mexico		3	17	1950-1958
8	Mexico	Mexico City	11	54	1933
8	Mexico	Yucatan	4
8	Mexico	Chichen Itza	34	39
8	Mexico	Merida	5		1931
8	Mexico	Uxmal	4	1
8	Near East		1		1961
8	Norway		8
8	Portugal		1		1921

Inventory of Steele's Postcard Collection Box 9

Box	Country	City	# postcards	# photos	Year Range
9	Architecture		48
9	Italy Architecture		1		1946
9	Pre-Ren.		7
9	Early Ren.		101
9	474		20
9	Classic modern details		9
9	Classic and Modern Interiors		1
9	Material		2
9	Arches		13
9	Balustrade		36
9	Billboards		4
9	Bridges		41
9	Building Material		1
9	Cemeteries		13
9	City Gates Wall		4
9	Clock		1
9	Collonades Arcades		5
9	Courts-Cloist		25
9	Curbs		2
9	Doors		12
9	Dormers		1
9	Drainage Details		12
9	Espalier		3
9	Fences		25
9	Filling stations		11
9	Picnic		9
9	Fountains		46
9	Fountains Italy		34
9	Modernistic Gardens		1
9	Monuments		25
9	Fountain Wall		20
9	Flying		25
9	Furniture England		1
9	Furniture France		1
9	Garden		6
9	Garden Theatre		2
9	Gates Garden		45
9	Landscape		2
9	Lighting		6
9	Little Gardens		1
9	Masonry		5
9	Metal Work		28
9	Mexico		8
9	Mosaic		19
9	Garden Furniture		11

Inventory of Steele's Postcard Collection Box 10

Box	Country	City	# postcards	# photos	Year Range
10	Miscellaneous Subjects		65
10	Trees Clipped		53
10	Personal		155
10	Pulpits		7
10	Sculpture		131
10	Painting		190