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Drawing, Design for the Interior of the Civil Service Travel Bureau
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Henry Dreyfuss Associates. It is dated June 11, 1953 and we acquired it in 1993. Its medium is graphite, red color pencil on tracing paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This is one of a group of drawings proposed for acquisition that document work by the Dreyfuss firm during the postwar years, for clients including Royal Typewriter (1944–45), New York Central Railroad (mid-1940s), RCA (1946–55), National Supply Co. (1949–58), and Cities Service (1951–62).
A number of the finished drawings correspond to prototypes or other documentation held in Cooper-Hewitt’s Dreyfuss archives, including those for RCA radio/phonograph and television consoles, and two beautiful drawings for Bell Telephone Laboratories of public phone booths.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled A Hitchhiker’s Guide to America.
It is credited Gift of John Bruce.
- Drawing, Henry J. Allen Residence, Wichita, KS: Dressing Table and Chair for...
- graphite, color pencil on cream tracing paper.
- Museum purchase from Smithsonian Regents Collections Acquisition and Friends....
- 1983-1-4
Its dimensions are
Sheet: 35.5 x 42 cm (14 x 16 9/16 in.)
It is signed
Signed in black pencil, lower right: Mouton / 6-11-53
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for the Interior of the Civil Service Travel Bureau; Designed by Henry Dreyfuss Associates (United States); USA; graphite, red color pencil on tracing paper; Sheet: 35.5 x 42 cm (14 x 16 9/16 in.); Gift of John Bruce; 1993-65-69
