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Abstract

Barrie Barstow Greenbie was a key member of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at UMass Amherst from 1970-1989. In a long and remarkably diverse career, Greenbie worked as an artist with the Works Progress Administration, as a soldier and journalist, as a professor of theater, an architect, inventor, author, and landscape planner. After earning a BA in drama from the University of Miami (1953),he worked for several years in the theatre program at Skidmore College. While there, he added architecture to his array of talents, designing the East 74th Street Theater in New York in 1959, and founded a company to produce a "self-erecting" building designed to substitute for summer tent theaters. Two years after joining the faculty at UMass in 1970, he completed a doctorate in urban affairs and regional planning at the University of Wisconsin and continued with a characteristically broad array of creative pursuits, designing the William Smith Clark Memorial, among other things, and conducting an extensive aerial survey of the landscapes of the Connecticut River Valley. In monographs such as Design for Diversity and Spaces: Dimensions of the Human Landscape, Greenbie examined the interactions between humans and nature. He died at his home on South Amherst in 1998.

The Greenbie Papers document a long career as academic, writer, artist, architect, and theatrical designer. Of particular note is the extensive and engrossing correspondence, which extends from Greenbie's years as a student at the Taft School in the late 1930s through his World War II service with the Sixth Army in the South Pacific and Japan, to his tenure at UMass Amherst (1970-1989). The collection also includes a small, but interesting correspondence between Greenbie's parents (1918-1919).

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English

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Barrie B. Greenbie Papers, 1895-2002

9 boxes (15 linear ft.)

Call no.: FS 142

Background on Barrie B. Greenbie

Barrie Greenbie with G-Frame model

A member of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1970 to 1989, Barrie Barstow Greenbie (1920-1998) enjoyed a remarkably diverse career, contributing to fields ranging from art to theatre, architecture to landscape planning. Born in New York on March 29, 1920, Greenbie's early life was in many ways as diverse as his adulthood. Raised to believe that his father, Sydney, was of Swedish descent, he discovered in his forties that he actually descended from a Jewish family who had fled Russia during the pogroms of Alexander II. His mother Marjorie, scion of an old New England family, was among the first women granted a PhD from Yale and taught English at Mount Holyoke College.

Prepped at the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, during the height of the Great Depression, Greenbie faced a still-sluggish economy upon graduation. After studying at the Corcoran School of Art and the Art Students League, both in New York City, he earned his first job in 1940, when he earned the distinction of becoming the youngest artist ever commissioned by the Works Progress Administration, painting a mural for the post office in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine.

After service with the Field Artillery in the Pacific during the Second World War and as a correspondent with the 6th Army in occupied Japan, Greenbie returned home to continue his education at the University of Miami, studying drama with a concentration in playwriting and stage design. Following receipt of his BA in 1953, he joined the Theatre Department at Skidmore College in Saratoga, N.Y., all the while maintaining an active creative life. It was there that he first branched out into architecture, designing buildings for the college and in 1959, the widely acclaimed East 74th Street Theater in New York (later renamed the Phoenix). He later returned to school, earning a doctorate in urban affairs and regional planning from the University of Wisconsin (1972) two years after accepting a position at UMass Amherst.

The wide-ranging intellect and keen artistic talent displayed at Skidmore characterized Greenbie's professional life at every stage. Author of a raft of essays, plays, and poetry, he designed theatres for dance for the Ford Foundation, invented a new conveyor belt system, and acquired five patents for inventions such as the Portapavillion, a portable open-framed tent, and the G-Frame house, a prefabricated house design that is easy and fast to build. Among his scholarly contributions were three monographs Design for Diversity: Planning for Natural Man in the Neo-Technic Environment (1976), focused particularly on the interactions between humans and nature, Spaces: Dimensions of the Human Landscape (1981), and Space and Spirit in Modern Japan (1988). His autobiography, A Hole in the Heartland appeared in 1996. At UMass, Greenbie pursued campus projects as diverse as designing the William Smith Clark Memorial (a joint effort between UMass and Hokkaido University to honor the third President of Massachusetts Agricultural College) and conducting an extensive aerial survey of the landscapes of the Connecticut River Valley.

Greenbie died at his home in South Amherst in 1998. He was survived by his wife of thirty-four years, Vlasta J. (Koran) Greenbie, three daughters, two grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Contents of Collection

Documenting the creative and professional life of Barrie Greenbie, this collection offers a rich resource for study of Greenbie's education, overseas service during World War II, his professional lives in the theatre and landscape architecture, and his relationships with family members, including his first wife Meg and his parents Marjorie and Sydney. The collection is organized into four series: Personal and Biographical, Professional, the Theatre, and the Connecticut River.

An engaging writer from early in life, Greenbie maintained a robust correspondence with his parents and wife from his time at the Taft School through the end of the Second World War, with slightly sparser correspondence for later years. Also included is a fascinating volume of typed copies of letters exchanged between Marjorie and Sydney Greenbie during their courtship in 1918-1919.

Among the great constants of Greenbie's varied life was a passion for the theatre, which emerges throughout the collection. In addition to some architectural designs for theatres and a model of the East 74th Street Theatre, the collection includes correspondence, an array of playbills and photographs of plays directed by Greenbie (primarily during the early 1950s), and several scripts, ending with The Apple Orchard, which was performed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the early 1990s. Also worthy of note are materials relating to Greenbie's patents on the Portapavilion, a collapsible outdoor pavilion, and on the G-Frame, a frame used in prefabricated houses.

Finally, the collection brings together material that highlights Greenbie's interest in the Connecticut River Valley. The collection includes research, analysis, and correspondence relating to his study of the Valley and a compact disk containing numerous aerial images of the riverscape.

Series Descriptions

Series 1. Personal and Biographical	1895-1997	3 linear ft.
Consists chiefly of correspondence, with a significant portion of the letters exchanged between Greenbie and his wife, Meg, during his service in World War II. Documents Greenbie's childhood, early education, and his parents' lives and work. The history of his father's origin is captured in Greenbie's book, The Hole in the Heartland; copies of documents collected during his research are included in this series. The published book and correspondence relating to the writing and production of the book can be found in the professional series.

Series 2. Professional	1951-1996	4.5 linear ft.
Contains a variety of professional papers documenting Greenbie's long and distinguished career, in particular his design of the G-Frame prefabricated house and the Portapavilion as well as his work in Japan. Also includes correspondence and research notes relating to his book, The Hole in the Heartland, which tells the story of Greenbie's search for the truth about his father's origin. The book documents the mystery of his father's family history, as well as the discovery that his father, Sidney Greenbie, was not the son of Swedish immigrants, but of Russian Jews who were refugees from the porgroms of Czar Alexander II.

Series 3. Theater	1950-1996	1.5 linear ft.
Ranges from Greenbie's early theater work at the University of Miami to his later work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on The Apple Orchard, a play written and produced by Greenbie.

Series 4. Connecticut River	1961-2002	1.5 linear ft.
Highlights Greenbie's interest in the Connecticut River and includes a CD of aerial images he took. Public response to these aerial images of the river prompted Greenbie to begin writing a book about the Connecticut River titled The Connecticut Riverscape: The View from Above. Greenbie was working on the manuscript at the time of his death.

Inventory of Collection

Series 1. Personal and Biographical	1895-1997	3 linear ft.
Army training notebook	1943		Box 1:1
Article: "My Dear Lady"			Box 1:2
Based on research conducted by Marjorie Greenbie.
Birth certificate (photocopy)	1920		Box 1:3
Correspondence	1918-1919		Box 1:4
Bound volume of typed copies of letters exchanged between Marjorie and Sydney Greenbie.
Correspondence	1939		Box 1:5
Correspondence	1940 Jan-Mar		Box 1:6
Correspondence	1940 Apr-June		Box 1:7
Correspondence	1940 Aug-Sept		Box 1:8
Correspondence	1940 Oct-Dec		Box 1:9
Correspondence	1941 Jan-Feb		Box 1:10
Correspondence	1941 Mar-May		Box 1:11
Correspondence	1941 June-Dec		Box 1:12
Correspondence	1942		Box 1:13
Correspondence	1943		Box 1:14
Correspondence	1944 Jan-Apr		Box 1:15
Correspondence	1944 May-Dec		Box 1:16
Correspondence	1945		Box 1:17
Correspondence	1945 Jan-Apr		Box 1:18
Correspondence	1946		Box 1:19
Correspondence	1947		Box 1:20
Correspondence	1951-1957		Box 1:21
Correspondence	1958-1959		Box 1:22
Correspondence	1960		Box 1:23
Correspondence	1961		Box 1:24
Correspondence	1962		Box 1:25
Correspondence	1963		Box 1:26
Correspondence	1964		Box 1:27
Correspondence	1965		Box 1:28
Correspondence	1965		Box 1:29
Correspondence	1966		Box 1:30
Correspondence	1966		Box 1:31
Correspondence	1967		Box 1:32
Correspondence	1967-1968		Box 1:33
Correspondence	1968		Box 1:34
Correspondence	1969		Box 1:35
Correspondence	1970		Box 1:36
Correspondence	1971-1974		Box 1:37
Correspondence	1982-1987		Box 1:38
Correspondence	1988-1993		Box 1:39
Correspondence, email	1997		Box 1:40
Correspondence: Mary Beth	1996		Box 1:41
Correspondence: Shark, Myer	1992-1997		Box 1:42
Correspondence, Sermon: Rossoff, Donald, Rabbi	1979-1997		Box 1:43
Correspondence: World War II	1943 Nov-Dec		Box 1:44
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1944 Jan-Feb		Box 1:45
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1944 Mar-Apr		Box 1:46
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1944 May-June		Box 1:47
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1944 July-Aug		Box 1:48
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1944 Sept-Oct		Box 1:49
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1944 Nov		Box 2:1
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1944 Dec		Box 2:2
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1945 Jan		Box 2:3
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1945 Feb		Box 2:4
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1945 Mar		Box 2:5
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1945 Apr		Box 2:6
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1945 May		Box 2:7
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1945 June		Box 2:8
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1945 July		Box 2:9
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1945 Sept		Box 2:10
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1945 Oct		Box 2:11
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1945 Nov		Box 2:12
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Correspondence: World War II	1945 Dec		Box 2:13
Letters to wife, Meg Greenbie.
Diary	1932		Box 2:14
Dissertation on my love for Marjorie by Sydney	1918		Box 2:15
Financial notes	1942		Box 2:16
Greenbie apartment: sketch of layout	ca. 1925		Box 2:17
Layout of apartment at 3513 13th St NW, Apt. 24 in Washington, D.C.
Greenbie family history: articles	1967-1997		Box 2:18
Greenbie family history: North Dakota, correspondence	1992, 1998		Box 2:19
Greenbie family history: North Dakota, land certificates	1899-1901		Box 2:20
Greenbie family history: North Dakota, Maps	1909-ca. 1990s		Box 2:21
Greenbie family hisotry: North Dakota, Miscellaneous notes	ca. 1990		Box 2:22
Greenbie family history: North Dakota Cemetery, newspaper clippings	1962-1997		Box 2:23
Greenbie, Sydney, Correspondence	1917-1922		Box 2:24
Photocopy of originals with annotations.
Greenbie, Sydney, Correspondence	1917, 1945		Box 2:25
Includes some photocopies of originals with itinerary of his tour along the East Coast of New Zealand on the Officer of Minister of Finance letterhead.
Greenbie, Sydney, Diary	1918-1924, 1960		Box 2:26
Extracts from diary are photocopied from original; also includes newclippings, biograhpical sketch an notes kept by Barrie Greenbie.
Greenbie, Sydney, Diary	1960		Box 2:27
Greenbie, Sydney, Typescript: Month's Harvest	ca. 1945		Box 2:28
Greenfield House (Saratoga, N.Y.)	1953-1959		Box 2:29
Greenfield House (Saratoga, N.Y.): history	1933-1959		Box 2:30
Greenfield House (Saratoga, N.Y.): photographs	1895, 1953		Box 2:31
Ingrid's diary (fragment)	ca. 1961		Box 2:32
Identified as "Ingrid's Diary" on page 5; probably an excerpt from Barrie Greenbie's daughter's diary.
Interest, Abilities and Personality Portrait; Greenbie, Barrie	1965		Box 2:33
Japanese postcards	undated		Box 2:34
Jewish Historical Society of Upper Midwest	1993		Box 2:35
Marjorie Barstow Greenbie: autobiography	undated		Box 2:36-38
Marjorie Barstow Greenbie: "I was Born Free"	undated		Box 2:39-40
Marjorie Barstow Greenbie: obituaries and condolences	1976		Box 2:41
Military documents	1945-1946		Box 2:42
Newspaper clippings	1940-1959		Box 2:43
Newspaper clippings	1960-1992		Box 2:44
Newspaper clippings: Skidmore	1953-1956		Box 2:45
Newspaper clippings: World War II	1945		Box 2:46-47
Obituary and tributes: Greenbie, Barrie	1998		Box 2:48
Photographs: World War II service	ca. 1943	2 images	Box 2:49
Scrapbook	1939-1940		Box 2:50
Section of Fine Arts, Treasury Dept. Bulletin	1939 June		Box 2:51
Sixth Army Pictorial	1945 Nov-Dec		Box 2:52
Taft School	1934-1935		Box 2:53
Traversity Press	1930-1932		Box 2:54
United ElectricalRadio and Machine Workers of America membership book	1943		Box 2:55
World War II: Japanese government-issued Philippine fiat peso	ca. 1942		Box 2:56
World War II: pamphlets	1943-1945		Box 2:57

Series 2. Professional
Abstracts	1969		Box 3:1
"Adam and Evelyn"	undated		Box 3:2
American Mystery: correspondence, publishers	1992-1995		Box 3:3
American Mystery: correspondence, Wylegala, Wendy	1993-1994		Box 3:4
Amherst Fields: Amherst report	1972		Box 3:5
Amherst Fields: "An Encounter: A History of Paparazzo Associates Dealings with the Town of Amherst"	1971		Box 3:6
Amherst Fields: Cherry Hill, newspaper clippings			Box 3:7
Amherst Fields: correspondence	1983-1984		Box 3:8
Amherst Fields: Landscape Architecture 791	1971		Box 3:9-10
Course information and class notes.
Amherst Fields: Memoranda	1971		Box 3:11
Amherst Fields: newspaper clippings	1971-1996		Box 3:12
Amherst Fields: plans, drawings, pricings	1971-1986		Box 3:13
Amherst Fields: presentation	1976		Box 3:14
Amherst Fields: plan, a critique			Box 3:15
Anna Ella Carroll and Abraham Lincoln	1994		Box 3:16
Architecture photographs	ca. 1960		Box 3:17
Articles, A-D	undated		Box 3:18
Articles: E-F	undated		Box 3:19
Articles; G-O	undated		Box 3:20
Articles: P-R	undated		Box 3:21
Articles: S	undated		Box 3:22
Articles: T-Y	undated		Box 3:23
Articles, copyright certificates	1968-1996		Box 3:24
Book reviews	1982-1988		Box 3:25
Reviews of Greenbie's work.
Book reviews	1968-1994		Box 3:26
Reviews of the work of others.
Brain theory	1968-1994		Box 3:27
Brown thesis	1973		Box 3:28
BSSG (Biomedical Sciences System Grant)	1972-1975		Box 3:29-30
Campus planning study: Skidmore College	1957		Box 3:31
Carmina Press and early dance theaters	1958-1960		Box 3:32
Clinic, Dr. Fred Hoffman: preliminary study	ca. 1960		Box 3:33
Conveyors: correspondence	1963-1967		Box 3:34
Conveyors: diagrams and sections	1963-1967		Box 3:35
Correspondence: employment	1961-1971		Box 3:36
Correspondence: Mark Wakley	1997		Box 3:37
Correspondence: Ph.D.	1972		Box 3:38
Correspondence: poems			Box 3:39
Correspondence: publishers	1953-1970		Box 3:40-42
Correspondence: Yale Press	1979-1994		Box 3:43-45
Curriculum vitae and biographical sketches	1982-1995		Box 3:46
Dance Studio extension plan, home of Mr. and Mrs. Sven Petersen	1958		Box 3:47
Day Tuttle's New Theatre	1959		Box 3:48
Design for Diversity: correspondence	1971		Box 4:1-3
Design for Diversity: reviews	1976-1977		Box 4:4
Draft, research paper	1975		Box 4:5
Drawings	1944		Box 4:6
East 74th Street Theater: correspondence	1958-1960		Box 4:7-8
East 74th Street Theater: "Lysistrata"	1959		Box 4:9
East 74th Street Theater: model	ca. 1959		B: OS area
East 74th Street Theater: Photographs	1959		Box 4:10
East 74th Street Theater: theater design	1959		Box 4:11
East 74th Street Theater: theater design	1959-1962		Box 9 (OS)
"Essentic Form: the Gap between Fact and Feeling"	1971		Box 4:12
Elizabeth Thompson	1991		Box 4:13
Ethological Perspective on the Nature of Human Landscape: correspondence	1976		Box 4:14
Ethological Perspective on the Nature of Human Landscape: paper	1976		Box 4:15-16
Farmer in the Dell: photographs	undated		Box 4:17
Fences and Neighbors: correspondence	1972-1981		Box 4:18
Footsteps in the Sand: correspondence	1984-1985		Box 4:19
Early version of Ghosts of a Dead War.
Ford Theater for Dance: concepts and designs	1962-1963		Box 4:20
Ford Theater for Dance: correspondence	1959-1994		Box 4:21
Ford Theater for Dance; Horizon article	1962		Box 4:22
Ford Theater for Dance: model photographs	ca. 1962		Box 4:23-24
Frame house: photograph	undated		Box 4:25
G-Frame building system: patent, sections, plans	1965		Box 4:26
G-Frame house: designs	1965		Box 4:27
G-Frame house: photographs	1970-1974		Box 4:28
G-Frame house: section, construction details, model photographs	ca. 1970		Box 4:29
G-Frame house: SW Walden photographs	1970		Box 4:30
Genesis Revisited	1997		Box 4:31
Ghosts of a Dead War: correspondence	1985-1991		Box 4:32
Ghosts of a Dead War: manuscript	undated		Box 4:33
Helen Partridge: correspondence	1964		Box 4:34
Helen Partridge: house plans	1964		Box 4:35
Hole in the Heartland	1996		Box 4:36
Hole in the Heartland: Anna Walsh	1939-1992		Box 4:37
Deeds, correspondence, newspaper clippings.
Hole in the Heartland: comments	1994-1997		Box 4:38
Hole in the Heartland: correspondence, newspaper clippings			Box 4:39
Hole in the Heartland: Dave Glickson	1992		Box 4:40
Research, correspondence, newspaper clippings.
Hole in the Heartland: Delsa and Carol	1970-1992		Box 4:41
Correspondence, memorial, poems, map
Hole in the Heartland; Greenberg census data	1992		Box 4:42
Hole in the Heartland: Joseph Grossmen	1995		Box 4:43
Correspondence.
Hole in the Heartland: Nancy Green	1993		Box 4:44
Correspondence.
Hole in the Heartland: Lucile Karayan	1973-1994		Box 4:45
Correspondence.
Hole in the Heartland: newspaper clippings	1928-1995		Box 4:46
Hole in the Heartland: photographs	undated		Box 4:47
Hole in the Heartland: photographs, Walsh	undated		Box 4:48
IMHE Landscape Assessment Conference	1972-1979		Box 4:49
Japan: correspondence	1983-1990		Box 4:50-57
Japan: newspaper clippings, lectures	1976-1985		Box 4:58
Japan: story	1985		Box 4:59
Juno's Japan: correspondence	ca. 1988		Box 4:60
Juno's Japan: design details	1988		Box 4:61
Juno's Japan: design studio	1988		Box 4:62
Juno's Japan: flyers	1988		Box 4:63
Juno's Japan: newspaper clippings	1988		Box 4:64
Juno's Japan: photographs	1988		Box 4:65
Keyoto: Nakamura fungus filtrate research	1980s		Box 5:1
Landscape Architecture 605 Studio 5: syllabus	1987		Box 5:2
Landscape Architecture 691F: syllabus	1989		Box 5:3
Landscapes of My Later Years: poetry	1984-1985		Box 5:4
Lecture flyer: "The Greening of Japan"	1989		Box 5:5
Letter: St. Lucia	1976		Box 5:6
Letters to the editor	1973-1992		Box 5:7
Lincoln City, Oregon	1971		Box 5:8
Lincoln City, Oregon: correspondence	1964-1965		Box 5:9
Lincoln City, Oregon: newspaper clippings	1965		Box 5:10
Lincoln City, Oregon: Photographs, drawings	1965		Box 5:11
Maclean, Paul D.: articles	1972-1976		Box 5:12
Maclean, Paul D.: correspondence	1972-1981		Box 5:13
Man-Made Shape and Natural Form	1978		Box 5:14-15
Medical Arts Incorporated: plan and section, elevation	1966		Box 5:16
Memoranda: UMass department of LARP	1970-1989		Box 5:17-22
Mural: photograh	1970s		Box 5:23
Outline of Ph.D. research	1969		Box 5:24
Pacific Triangle Revisited	undated		Box 5:25
New Party	1948-1949		Box 5:26
Newspaper clippings: publishing	1997		Box 5:27
Old deeds to Castine property	1920-1977		Box 5:28
Permission to reprint	1973-1996		Box 5:29
Planning for Paradox: Comprehensiveness in the Age of Einstein	1971		Box 5:30
Exam for Ph.D. pre-liminaries.
Poems	1984-1996		Box 5:31
Portapavilion 6P40: photographs	ca. 1964		Box 5:32-35
Portapavilion: Canadian patent	1964		Box 5:36
Portapavilion: correspondence	1958-1972		Box 5:37-38
Portapavilion: drawings, sections, plans	undated		Box 5:39
Portapavillon: materials and methods	1961		Box 5:40
Portapavilion: model photographs	undated		Box 5:41
Portapavilion:O. Ridge photographs	undated		Box 5:42-43
Portapavilion: Streling Forest photographs	1961		Box 5:44
Portapavilion: summary and forecast of operations	undated		Box 5:45
Post Office mural: correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs	undated		Box 5:46
Prefabricated House Project, Madison: correspondence	1967-1970		Box 5:47
Prefabricated House Project, Madison: writings	1986		Box 5:48
Prefabricated House Project, Madison: newspaper clippings	1986		Box 5:49
Preliminary examinations, Ph.D.	1970-1971		Box 5:50
Project 10	1980		Box 5:51
Rationale and objectives for proposed literature search	1969		Box 5:52
Resume and curriculum vita	1958-1970		Box 5:53
"Return to Pacific"	1984-1987		Box 5:54
Roebling Bridge Plan	1994		Box 5:55
Salzmann House	1987-1988		Box 5:56
Sentics: article	1971		Box 5:57
Sentics: correspondence	1971-1980		Box 5:58
Sentics: images	1971		Box 5:59
Sentics: "Precision of Direct Emotion Communication" paper	1971		Box 5:60-61
Sentics: request for reprints	1972		Box 5:62
Shelf conveyor: model	undated		B: OS area
Short stories	1940		Box 6:1
Sister State Signing Trip	1989-1990		Box 6:2
Skidmore: student evaluations	1954		Box 6:3
Skidmore: bookstore perspective drawing	1956		Box 6:4
Skidmore: photographs	ca. 1953-1959		Box 6:5
Solar house deign	1980		Box 6:6
Spaces: comments	1977-1982		Box 6:7
Spaces of Prague: correspondence	1990-1992		Box 6:8
Spaces: fan mail	1981-1985		Box 6:9
Spaces: Dimensions of Human Landscape	1981		Box 6:10
Spaces: reviews			Box 6:11
Spaces of Prague	1990		Box 6:12-13
Spaces and Spirit in Modern Japan: correspondence, newspaper clippings	1986-1995		Box 6:14
Stargazing Tower, Pittsburgh: plan, sections, photographs	1963-1964		Box 6:15
Stargazing Tower, Pittsburgh: correspondence	1963-1964		Box 6:16
Stargazing Tower, Pittsburgh: plan and sections	1963		Box 6:17
Stone Barn House: blueprints, photographs	1961		Box 6:18
Taliesin Fellowship	1957-1958		Box 6:19
Thesis introduction	1972		Box 6:20
Toward the Humane Landscape: Examples of Proxemic and Distemic Space in Japan	1977		Box 6:21
Two Ends of the Dragon"	1988-1989		Box 6:22
"Two Liberations of Luzon"	1986		Box 6:23-24
"Two Liberations of Luzon": photographs	undated		Box 6:25-27
University of Massachusetts Library: memoranda	1974-1975		Box 6:28
University of Massachusetts Library: plan	1974		Box 6:29
University of Massachusetts: correspondence	1969-1983		Box 6:30
University of Massachusetts: proposal for METLAND	undated		Box 6:31
University of Massachusetts: Wilder Times	1979		Box 6:32
University of Oregon: correspondence	1970-1984		Box 6:33
Univesity of Oregon: Marjorie Greenbie Collection	1970		Box 6:34
Unpublished manuscript	1984-1997		Box 6:35
Unpublished manuscript: Kyu Fumi	1945-1985		Box 6:36
Unpublished manuscript: Vanishing Inventor	1969		Box 6:37
Unpublished manuscript: Unknown Yankee, Land of Japan	1990		Box 6:38
Urban Farm and Function in Jacksonville, Wisconsin	1966		Box 6:39
U.S. patents	1964-1967		Box 6:40
Vaclav Havel's Prague Spring	1990		Box 6:41
Vaclav Havel's Prague Spring: correspondence	1990-1992		Box 6:42
What's in an Name?: An American Mystery	1984-1992		Box 6:43
'Word's Worth": biographical information	1960-1994		Box 6:44
Word's Worth: letters	1994-1997		Box 6:45
Word's Worth: script	1994-1997		Box 6:46
Working papers	1969		Box 6:47
World War II writings	1945		Box 6:48
University of Miami: art paper	1952		Box 6:49
University of Miami: drawings	1950-1953		Box 6:50
University of Miami: critique of drama	1952		Box 6:51
University of Miami: student paper	1951		Box 6:52

Series 3. Theater
Apple Orchard: contacts	1992		Box 7:1
Apple Orchard: correspondence, financial	1992		Box 7:2
Apple Orchard: correspondence, general	1992-1996		Box 7:3
Apple Orchard: correspondence, producers	1991-1995		Box 7:4
Apple Orchard: finances	1992-1993		Box 7:5
Apple Orchard: grant			Box 7:6
Apple Orchard: photographs	1991		Box 7:6
Apple Orchard: publicity	1992		Box 7:8
Apple Orchard: script	1992		Box 7:9
Apple Orchard: set photographs	1991		Box 7:10
Apple Orchard: video tape, edited master	1992		Box 7:11
Arena Summer Theater: Thieves' Carnival	1956		Box 7:12
Burnsville School of Fine Arts: bulletin	1952		Box 7:13
Burnsville School of Fine Arts: Midsummer Night's Dream	1952		Box 7:14
Burnsville School of Fine Arts: Outward Bound	1952		Box 7:15
Burnsville School of Fine Arts: Taming of the Shrew	1951		Box 7:16
Burnsville School of Fine Arts: Ten Little Indians	1951		Box 7:17
By the Shores of the Berkshires: script	1993		Box 7:18
Cameo Playhouse: Tovarich	undated		Box 7:19
Carmina: photographs	undated		Box 7:20
Casablanca Players: Constant Wife	1953		Box 7:21
Castine: script	1948		Box 7:22
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo: correspondence	1996		Box 7:23
With Vincent Dowling.
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo: MFH grant application	1995-1996		Box 7:24
Cock-A-Doodle Doo: press	1996		Box 7:25
Cock-A-Doodle Doo: script	1996		Box 7:26
Earth is Round: script	1946		Box 7:27
Home for Christmas: scripts	1950		Box 7:28
Miami Beach Little Theater Group: Ask Me No Questions	1953		Box 7:29
Miami Junior Woman's Club	1951		Box 7:30
Curiosity and The Green Convertible.
Roosevelt Playhouse: Detective Story	1951		Box 7:31
Skidmore: Little Foxes	undated		Box 7:32
Skidmore: photographs	1955		Box 7:33
University of Miami: All My Sons	1950		Box 7:34
University of Miami: Arsenic and Old Lace	1950		Box 7:35
University of Miami: As You Like It	1950		Box 7:36
University of Miami: Brigadoon	1952		Box 7:37
University of Miami: Imaginary Invalid	1950		Box 7:38
University of Miami: Madwoman of Chaillot	1951		Box 7:39
University of Miami: Our Borrowed Time	1950		Box 7:40
University of Miami: They Knew What They Wanted	1952		Box 7:41
University of Miami: Yes, My Darling Daughter	1950		Box 7:42
University of Miami: photographs	1950-1953		Box 7:43
University of Miami: Ring Theater annual	1951-1952		Box 7:44
University of Miami: Ring Theater newspaper clippings	1950		Box 7:45

Series 4. Connecticut River
American Heritage Rivers Initiative: Connecticut River Action Plan, excerpt	1998		Box 8:1
American Heritage Rivers Initiative: Connecticut River nomination	1997		Box 8:2
Article: "A River Runs Through"	1997		Box 8:3
Brochures	undated		Box 8:4
Cassette tapes	1998		Box 8:5
Compact discs	1997		Box 8:6-7
Compact discs: correspondence and mailing list	1997-1998		Box 8:8
Compact discs: correspondence and text	2002		Box 8:9
Compact discs: flyers	1997		Box 8:10
Correspondence	1997-2001		Box 8:11-12
Correspondence: Anne Beer	1997-2002		Box 8:13
Correspondece: archives	2000		Box 8:14
Correspondence: exhibit	1991		Box 8:15
Correspondence: publishers	1990-1998		Box 8:16
Chicopee River Study and Survey	1995		Box 8:17
Chicopee River Wildlife Refuge	1993		Box 8:18
Connecticut River Watershed Council	undated		Box 8:19
Connecticut Riverscape: "A View from Above," additional material	1999		Box 8:20
Connecticut Riverscape: "A View from Above," text	1998-1999		Box 8:21-22
Connecticut River: "A View from Above," text and photographs	1999		Box 8:23-28
Edwin M. Bacon: Connecticut River and the Valley of the Connecticut River, notes	undated		Box 8:29
Computer disk	1998		Box 8:30
Historical booklets	1944-1961		Box 8:31
Inventory and analysis of resources	1961		Box 8:32
Internet research	undated		Box 8:33
Maps	undated		Box 8:34
Newspaper clippings	1988-1998		Box 8:35-36
Riverfront Recapture, Inc.: annual report	1997-1998		Box 8:37
Riverfront Recapture, Inc.: guide	1982		Box 8:38
Slides	1989-1991		Box 8:39

Provenance

The Greenbie were donated by Barrie Greenbie in 1998, with subsequent additions from his widow, Vlasta, in 2000.

Processing Information

Processed by Sarah Goldstein and Rebecca Tran, May 2010.

Related Material

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Cite as: Barrie Greenbie Papers (FS 142). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.

Names and Subject Terms

Subjects

Greenbie, Barrie B.
Greenbie, Marjorie Latta Barstow, 1891- .
Greenbie, Sydney, 1889-1960.
Landscape architecture--Japan.
Landscape architecture--United States.
Taft School--Students.
Theaters--Designs and plans.
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning.
University of Massachusetts Amherst--Faculty.
World War, 1939-1945.

Genre terms

Letters (Correspondence)
Photographs.