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1903Letterhd1903 2.jpg (2038 bytes) Frank Lloyd Wright Letterhead, 1903 - Forest And Chicago Avenues, Oak Park, Illinois, Telephone Oak Park Fifty Three.  Under the typed name of Frank Lloyd Wright, there are three initials that look to me like WBG.  Walter Burley Griffin was an integral part of the Wright Studio fro  1901 to 1905 (Prairie Style, Page 200). 1903.00.0700
C 1904 Larkin Co. Buffalo, N.Y. Envelope. Circa 1904-09. Back: "Old Customers are rewarded for recommending new customers. Have your friends write for our catalog." 1113 E. 27-53. [Place a Two Cent Stamp Here] 6 x 3.5. Gift from Randolph C. Henning. 0055.01.0809
1910 Larkin Co. Envelope - (Printed by the Larkin Company, Buffalo, NY).  Post Marked 1910. Note: Graphic designs on cover taken from Wright's interior designs.  6.5 x 3.75. 0094.03.0706
1910 Larkin Co. Letterhead. Top Left: "John D. Larkin, Pres’t & Treas. Chas H Larkin, Vice Pres’t. Wm. R. Heath, Vice Pres’t. D.D. Martin, Secretary. John D. Larkin, Jr. Ass’t Treas. Harry H Larkin, Ass’t Treas." In Illustration: "Larkin, Seneca, Swan, Carroll, Exchange, Van Rensselaer Streets."  Top Right: "Factory to Family. Soapmakers, Perfumers, Chemists, Importers, Food Specialists."  Center: "Larkin Co., Established, 1875."  "Buffalo, N.Y 6/3/10." 8.5 x 10. 0104.05.0209
1917

Larkin Co. Letterhead - 1917.  Letterhead stamped Jul 21 1917. Same basic illustration as Negative and Two Postcards (1908 & 1910). Printed code top right hand corner 514F.2061.  8.5 x 10.

0138.01.0305
1919 Handwritten Letter from Wright to Miriam Noel in 1919 while he was in Japan working on the Imperial Hotel. Written on The Ikao Hotel letterhead, Ikao, Japan. "–1919.  Miriam - dearest: I have gone to 'keep my eye off the other fellow'. It will a hard work for me! against my grain but I know how to concentrate and to hope..." See balance of letter. Published in Autograph Collector, July 1999, page 31, and "was offered by Seaport Autographs for $4,250 in 1990." Robert Edwards Auctions reported that in 2005 it sold for $2,900. 7.5 x 10.25. High res digital image. 0141.03.0709
Circa 1930IH LetHead 2.jpg (5977 bytes) Imperial Hotel Letterhead 1930.00.0400
1956 Monona Terrace Committee Letter  (Published by Citizens for Monona Terrace Committee)  “Because you have been a visitor... or in some other way have shown your interest in Wright architecture, we are sending you the enclosed brochure.  In it Mr. Wright describes the Monona Terrace Project for our Capital City.”  Dated April 23rd, 1956.  Citizens for Monona Terrace Committee, Helen Groves; Mary Lescohier.  Includes photograph of Model.  8.5 x 11.  Pp 1 1147.08.0307
1956 Hotel Geneva Business Card, Circa 1956. "Hotel Geneva. Allen C. Hermansen. Lake Geneva, Wisconsin." 2 x 3.5. 1147.12.0409
1957 Imperial Hotel Letterhead.  Part of a package which included Brochure, Price list, 11 Letterhead plus a few other items.  Rice paper. 11 x 6.75 folded to 5.5 x 6.75. 1957.02.0105
1985 Wright Envelope from Thailand.  Addresses to Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright.  Thailand dated 27-12-2519. 1985.08.0302

 

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