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John Bland Canadian Architecture Collection Series
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Private correspondence

Letters from several of Nobbs' friends and colleagues, among them Sir Raymond Unwin (1934-1940), Professor G. Baldwin Brown (1893-1926), Auckland C. Geddes (1909-1953), Bertram Goodhue (1906-1935), R. S. Lorimer (1904-1924) and Noulan Cauchon (1935).

Drawings

Included are watercolours and drawings of Egypt and India as well as details and sketches of churches in England and Italy.

McGill University

Correspondence relating to Nobbs' activities as a professor of architecture at McGill University (1904-1940) and details of his subsequent pension arrangements, as well as the honourary Doctor of Letters awarded him by McGill in 1957. Included are student design problems assigned by Nobbs during his years as Professor of Design at the School of Architecture (1928-1940).

Photographs

The photographs in the Nobbs archive document some of his architectural projects including urban domestic architecture, renovations to the interior of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, McGill's MacDonald Engineering Building, a proposal for Winnipeg City Hall and a proposal for a war memorial at Lille in France. Documented are plans, exteriors and interiors, models, buildings under construction and perspectives. Included are five photograph albums.

Personal projects

Series consists of manuscripts, typescripts, and correspondence regarding various personal, non-architectural projects undertaken by Nobbs, in particular the design of his deflected northern lighting system for the National Research Council.

Architectural operations

Series contains clippings related to projects executed by the firms, including the old Masonic Temple, the Engineers' Club house, the Windsor Hotel, a house for N. A. Timmins, and the École technique de Montréal.

Professional associations

Correspondence relating to Nobbs' participation in several professional organizations, specifically the Art Association of Montreal (1916-1933), the Royal Institute of British Architects (1927-1929), the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1928-1939), the Royal Society of Arts (1938-1940) and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (1955).

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