This collection arrived in the repository in a photograph album and was transferred to an archival album; contents were kept in the original order found in the photograph album. Cutouts from the cover of Nirdlinger's 1925 self-published work had been pasted to the front and side of the photograph album; these were removed and are now found inside the archival album and are the first two items listed in the container list. The architectural images follow. Images with captions given by the creator are titled in the container list with the caption inside quotation marks; the physical captions are placed in the same sleeve page in the album as the image they refer to. Uncaptioned photographs have the word "uncaptioned" in the title given in the container list.
Accession No. RARE.2020.0032: Darwin H. Stapleton, 2020 October
[identification of item], Images of As-Built Projects by Maximilian Nirdlinger, Including Excerpts from "A Book of Architectural Work Executed by M. Nirdlinger," SPEC.RARE.0308, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University
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Processed by: Audrey Wimbiscus, 2020 October; Finding aid written by: Audrey Wimbiscus, 2020 October
Maximilian Nirdlinger (1881-1966) was an architect who primarily worked in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; he was active from around 1897 to around 1947. He was a member of the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Nirdlinger worked for the architecture firm of Furness and Evans in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1897 to 1899, and is known to have worked as an independent architect in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after 1903, though he still maintained affiliations with other architecture firms throughout his career. From circa 1905 to circa 1909, Nirdlinger headed an architecture firm called Nirdlinger and Simpson in Pittsburgh with David Simpson; this firm primarily designed residences in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Besides residences, Nirdlinger also designed commercial buildings such as banks, theatres, office buildings, garages, and department stores.
The Images of As-Built Projects by Maximilian Nirdlinger, Including Excerpts from "A Book of Architectural Work Executed by M. Nirdlinger" consist of images with captions of Nirdlinger's architectural projects, placed into a photograph album; this album was compiled some time after 1989, based on when the company who manufactured it (Holson Burnes Group, Inc.) was founded. Many of the images appear to have been cut out of "A Book of Architectural Work Executed by M. Nirdlinger," a self-published book by Nirdlinger dated 1925; this book contained as-built front and side elevation images of commerical buildings and residences designed by Nirdlinger. Many of these buildings were constructed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with several in Ohio and other parts of Pennsylvania.
Approximately eleven of the photocopied images have inactive mold on the verso (back), and four of the captions have inactive mold on the recto (front).
Originally pasted to the cover of photograph album.
Originally taped to the inside cover of the photograph album.