Correspondence, writings, lectures, reports, proposals, scripts, notes, research files, minutes, financial records, clippings, printed material including catalogs and brochures, biographical material, layout designs, plans, drawings, photographs, and other papers documenting the design activities and professional associations of Charles and Ray Eames. Relates chiefly to the Eames's designs for chairs and other furniture, exhibit designs, and production of films for the Eames's principal clients, the Herman Miller (firm), International Business Machines Corporation, and the governments of India and the United States.View related exhibition online here.

Literary and talent agent. Contracts, correspondence, financial records, notes, photographs, printed matter, and scripts relating to the Lucy Kroll Agency which managed the careers of numerous clients in the literary and entertainment fields. Includes client files on style and design figure Susanne Slesin.

Correspondence; administrative, client, and project files; and financial and legal papers relating to Loewy's work as an industrial designer. The collection documents the growth of his company from a small firm to a complex system of international corporations and subsidiaries concerned with architecture, corporate image coordination, exhibitions, marketing, packaging, product design, and other aspects of industrial design. Includes correspondence, speeches, and writings of the Loewy firms' chief executives Joseph Lovelace, James J. Sheridan, William Snaith, and Loewy himself. Prominent clients include Abraham & Straus, Coca-Cola Company, Exxon Corporation, Greyhound Corporation, Higbee Co., John Wanamaker (firm), Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, Lord & Taylor, Martin Marietta Corporation, Nabisco, Inc., National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Skylab project), Pennsylvania Railroad, Sibley, Lindsay and Curr Company, Studebaker Corporation, U.S. Forest Service, United States Postal Service, and Woodward & Lothrop. Includes files on designs for many other companies and products in the United States, France, Great Britain, Soviet Union, and elsewhere.

Aerospace engineer, rocketry pioneer, and kinetic artist. Includes material regarding his subsequent career in kinetic art in Paris and as founder of the periodical Leonardo is also documented.

Engineer, administrator of the United States manned space flight program, and corporate executive. Papers include subject files and correspondence with designer Raymond Loewy during his career at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and System Development Cooperation.

Correspondence, planning files, biographical material, maps, blueprints, drawings, proposals, minutes, reports, scrapbooks, press releases, clippings, invitations, brochures, interviews, appointment calendars, travel records, certificates, awards, and photographs related to architectural activities, urban planning, and professional associations of I. M. Pei.

The papers of Charles W. Sirch span the years 1878-1935 and contain correspondence, blueprints and drawings, and printed matter documenting Sirch's contributions to airship design and the role of lighter-than-air technology in the evolution of naval aviation. Sirch was an early airship developer whose correspondence regarding his design proposal for a military dirigible with Washington Irving Chambers constitutes the most significant part of this small collection. Sirch and Chambers, a pioneer in naval aviation whose personal papers are also included among the holdings of the Naval Historical Foundation collections in the Library of Congress, correspond about the technical aspects, financial restrictions, and patent considerations surrounding the construction of the dirigible as an experimental airship for research purposes.

The papers consist chiefly of correspondence between John Cooper Tunnicliff, his wife Cornelia Hunter Tunnicliff, and their six children. The first part of the correspondence documents the courtship and early family life of John and Cornelia in Galesburg, Illinois, where John worked for George W. Brown & Company as a designer and construction expert in farm equipment, especially planting machines. Occasionally, he traveled to Kansas City as a sales and service representative for the company. In 1896 he moved his family to Moline, Illinois, where he continued his career. Other subjects include hydropathy in 1859, trips to England in 1878 and 1909, and the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.