McKim Images

McKim, Mead & White, Bird's-eye view of projected campus built to full density, 1903;
Jules Crow, delineator (cat. 45)

Figure 1	Morningside Park looking west toward the Bloomingdale Asylum, ca. 1890 (cat. I)
Figure 2	Morningside Heights viewed from the Hudson River, 1892, engraving (reproduced from Scientific American, 4 January 1890)
Figure 4	Real estate survey of Morningside Heights neighborhood in 1891 (reproduced from George W. and Walter S. Bromley, Atlas of the City of New York, Philadelphia, 1891)
Figure 6	King's College in the skyline of colonial New York City (Palm Tree Print), etching by Pierre Canot (Arts Properties)
Figure 9	Columbia College at 49th Street, Reading room of C. C. Haight's library (Columbiana Collection)
Figure 10	Columbia College at 49th Street, View of Hamilton Hall: Madison Avenue elevation (Columbiana Collection)
Figure 11	Columbia College at 49th Street, Library: campus elevation (Columbiana Collection)
Figure 12	Columbia College at 49th Street, Site plan drawn for sale of property after the removal of the college to Morningside heights, ca. 1897 (Avery Library)
Figure 15	Charles Coolidge Haight, Master plan for Columbia University, 1893 (cat. 10)
Figure 17	Richard morris Hunt, Master plan for Columbia University (Scheme A), 1893 (cat. 9)
Figure 18	McKim, Mead & White, Master plan for Columbia University, published by the trustees, May 1894 (cat. 13)
Figure 19	McKim, Mead & White, Revised master plan for Columbia University, published by the trustees, October 1894 (reproduced from Harper's Weekly, 3 November 1894)
Figure 23	Charles F. McKim, First known sketch of plan and elevaton of Low Library, 1894 (cat. 14)
Figure 28	Model of Low Library exhibited at the Trans-Mississippi Exhibition, Omaha, Nebraska, 1898 (cat. 15)
Figure 29	Model of Columbia University and Barnard College on exhibition in the model house, 1908, photograph by A. Fowler (New-York Historical Society)
Figure 34	McKim, Mead & White, Site plan for dormitories on the Grove, 120th Street from Broadway to Amsterdam, 1898 (Columbiana Collection)
Figure 35	McKim, Mead & White, Perspective view of a dormitory for the Grove, 1898 (Columbiana Collection)
Figure 43	Columbia University campus looking north from 114th Street, ca. 1918. South Field was used until the 1950s as a playing field; the sundial, installed in 1910 on the south side of 116th Street, is visible in the center. (New-York Historical Society)
Figure 50	McKim, Mead, & White, Project for the development of the 120th Street expansion of the science departments, 1924 (cat. 70)
Figure 90	Bloomingdale Asylum: north from 114th Street, 1892 (Columbiana Collection)
Figure 91	View from near 114th Street looking north to Low Library, 1897 (Columbiana Collection)
Figure 92	View of Morningside (Cathedral) Heights, Hudson River, and New Jersey Palisades, 1898 (Columbiana Collection)
Figure 111	Schermerhorn and Fayerweather, 1 October 1896
Figure 115	Bird's-eye view of Columbia University
Figure 117	Grove seen from the upper campus (Columbiana Collection)
Figure 121	McKim, Mead, & White, Campus campus: from Amsterdam Avenue and 114th Street looking north, 1903
Page 164	27 JUNE 1896 --St. Luke's Hospital (newly opened, as of January 1896) presides over this monumental enterprise. The boom cranes and central scaffolding for the dome grow taller.
Page 174	24 OCTOBER 1896 --The cornerstone now seems dwarfed by the piers and vaults stretching to the baseline of the dome.
Page 176	23 NOVEMBER 1896 --The huge timbers of the central scaffolding are silhouetted against the sky. With plans in hand, the workmen prepare the wooden frame for the massive masonry dome. The "Danger Beware of Elevator" sign stands sentry. Notice the tools these men are holding: hods and shovels. Orlando W. Norcross, master builder, had planned a continuous-pour concrete dome for Low Memorial Library. Employing this technology on such a massive structure was a daring innovation for the time. In the lengthy debates over this proposal, Seth Low immediately voiced his approval. The New York City Building Department, however, did not give Norcross final authorization to proceed with the pour until late in November of 1896. As Norcross was unwilling to risk a concrete pour in cold weather, he chose instead to create a genuine vault of brick masonry.