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The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection

The Wright Collection (founded 1969) was built largely through the efforts of Curtis Besinger, a Taliesin Fellow from 1939 to 1955 and late KU Professor of Architecture. The collection is made up of books by and about Wright, over a thousand photographs (most of them the gift of Elizabeth Gordon Norcross, former editor of House Beautiful) of his buildings and of life at Taliesin (particularly Taliesin West), and a great many clippings and rare printed ephemera, such as Taliesin Eyes, the newsletter printed by the Taliesin Fellows.

Associated manuscript collections include correspondence of the Taliesin Fellows with Prof. and Mrs. George Beal and the substantial body of Curtis Besinger's own papers.

Special Collections Librarian - Richard W. Clement, 785/864-4334
rclement@ku.edu
Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library,
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-7616 
Phone: 785/864-4334 Fax: 785/864-5803