About The Principia:
Materials
Materials
We are collecting materials in the following areas:

  • Any material related to the founder of the school, Mary Kimball Morgan.
  • Material about early Principia workers, students, faculty, and staff, as well as faculty research.
  • Principia-related personal photographs, documents, and unique memorabilia related to student life of any period.
  • Institutional material by administration, faculty, or staff.
  • Documents, drawings, and photographs related to Bernard R. Maybeck and his Principia commission.
  • Principia-related documents, drawings, and photographs by or about the following architects and their Principia work: Henry H. Gutterson, Kenneth Wischmeyer, Smith and Entzeroth, Risley and Gould, Guy Study, Norman I. Bailey, and landscape architect Butler Sturtevant.
  • Art work or documents about artists Frederick Oakes Sylvester, Kathryn E. Cherry, Rudolph Tandler, James Green, and James Schmidt.
  • Documents, photographs, and information related to early Elsah, Illinois, and its environs including the estates of Notch Cliffe and Eliestoun.
Do you have something to contribute to our collection? Please contact Jane Pfeifer.