District of Columbia Office of Planning (OP)
Content Description
A collection of photographs, slides, negatives, and comprehensive reports from the District of Columbia Office of Planning. Materials document the planning of Washington, DC neighborhoods, buildings, parks, and public spaces by the District of Columbia Office of Planning.
Acquisition Type
Gift
Provenance
Edward Giefer of the DC Office of Planning donated this collection to the Library in July 2014.
Language of Description
English
Restrictions Apply
Yes
Access Restrictions
This is an unprocessed collection and might be stored at an offsite location. Materials within this collection have limited or no organization and a detailed content description is unavailable. The collection has been placed in the queue for future processing.
Use Restrictions
Photoduplication: Persons granted access to materials in this gift may procure single-copy reproduction for research and scholarship when such duplication can be done without injury to the item(s). Donors and members of organizations may make single-copy reproductions of materials they donate free of charge. For reasons of security, preservation, or service, the Public Library may reproduce, transcribe, and copy all or parts of this gift
Dates
- Creation: Unknown
Extent
9 Linear feet (Total Boxes: 6)
Inventory
The collection is contained within six boxes. Box #1 contains a couple thousand photographs, negative reels, and proof sheets featuring the DC Office of Planning’s neighborhood planning, development, and preservation work. There are many photographs of buildings, parks, and office events. Also included are notes and reports regarding the OPs economic planning process. Box #2 contains two Kodak Carousel Slide Trays one of which holds an urban design slide deck. The box also contains 74 small boxes of slides. The majority of these boxes of slides are unlabeled except for a few boxes that indicate their contents having a relation to “Ward 8”, “Ward 2”, “7th St. NW”, “Ruppert Home”, and “Connecticut + L St. Project”. The remainder of the slides depict photos of buildings, roads, lots, and people related to the DC Office of Planning work. Box #3 contains approximately a dozen oversized photographs on cardboard bases, eight envelopes of photographs some with negatives, a 3-ring binder album containing photographic slides, three small boxes of slides, one medium box of slides and a large, hard shelled box of slides all related to the work done by the DC Office of Planning. Box #4 contains a copy of DC Mayor Marion Barry’s 1982 comprehensive downtown plan, 2 large manila envelopes with downtown DC illustrative plan negatives, seven oversized negatives of downtown DC maps, an oversized letter from the mayor to DC citizens regarding the downtown plan, approximately 60 city planning blueprints on acetate paper, and a dozen streetscape drawings on tracing paper. Box #5 contains five sheets of negative reels, several thousand photographs featuring projects from the District of Columbia Department of Highways and Traffic. Photographs are mostly loose or contained within approximately 15 folders organized geographically by names of street intersections. Box #6 contains two 3-ring binder albums containing a few hundred photographic slides each, 19 small boxes of slides (2”x4”), one large lidless box of slides (10”x10”), a ziplock bag full of slides, a couple of envelopes with negatives, and two envelopes of photographs inside a grocery bag.