TGSIMIG IMF Buildings Photographs

71696

1946, 1955-1958, 1960, 1962-1974, 1976-1977, 1979-1983, 1987-1988, 1991-1997

series

photographic records

8473 photographs: 4890 col. and b&w negatives; 35mm 120 film 4x5 inches 8x10 inches, 892 col. and b&w prints; 8x10 inches or smaller, contact sheets, and oversize, 2691 col. slides, 35mm

English

Luis Rubén Azócar, D.E. Brantley, Michel Camdessus, H. Merle Cochran, Timothy Cole, Jorge Del Canto, Stanley Fischer, Francois P. Gianviti, Roman L. Horne, J.J. Polak, Inger E. Prebensen, Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Tochette Schweitzer, John Snyder, Frank A. Jr. Southard, Philip Thorson, Walter H. Windsor

Series is open according to the Policy on Access to the Fund's Archives. Files will be screened by reference staff for any time restrictions.

Series consists of photographs authored by IMF photographers documenting the construction of IMF headquarters buildings as well as structures built at the Bretton Woods Recreation Center in Germantown, MD, from the 1940s through 1997. Organized by IMF photographers as part of their daily workflow, photographs have been kept in their original order and are arranged in two groups, (1) those documenting headquarters buildings and (2) those of the Bretton Woods Recreation Center (BWRC). Descriptions are available at the subseries level, one for each year of photographs documenting IMF Headquarters and one documenting construction and social events at the Bretton Woods Recreation Center., Photographs include shots documenting various phases of development (pre-demolition, demolition, construction, maintenance), technical photographs of blueprints and artists' renderings, and official events featuring management and senior-level staff commemorating milestones and conducting site visits. Photographs in both groups are arranged chronologically by year and date and include the following buildings: 1818 H Street used by IMF staff in the 1940s and 1950s; headquarters on north-west corner of 19th and H Streets completed in 1958; Annex, or "Addition," on the SW corner of 19th and G Streets completed in 1966; Phase I on southern portion of 19th, G, and 20th Streets completed in 1973; Phase II on the north-west corner of 20th and H Streets completed in 1983; Phase III on the north-east corner of 19th and H Streets completed in 1998; and structures built at the Bretton Woods Recreation Center in Germantown, MD constructed between 1966 and 1983., For preservation reasons, photographs (prints, negatives, contact sheets, and slides) are housed in 13 boxes according to format and size as follows: Boxes 1-2: 4x5 inch negatives; Boxes 3-10: 35mm negatives, 120 film, 35mm slides; and Boxes 11-13: contact sheets, prints (8x10 inches or smaller), and textual records. The contact sheets, prints, and textual records found in boxes 11-13 are further organized chronologically by year and then date into 21 archival files as follows: [File 1] [ca 1946]; [File 2] 1955-1958; [File 3] 196- [ca1960-1966]; [File 4] 1960-1963; [File 5] 1964; [File 6] 1965; [File 7] 1966; [File 8] 1967; [File 9] 1969; [File 10] 1970 [197-] (1/10/70-6/12/70); [File 11] 1970 (7/8/70-12/2/70); [File 12] 1971; [File 13] 1972; [File 14] 1973, 1974; [File 15] 1977, 1979; [File 16] 1980s; [File 17] 1994, 1996, 1997; [File 18] [Textual Records] [1990s]; [File 19] 1955-1995 [4x5 inch prints]; [File 20] Bretton Woods Recreation Center (BWRC) 1966-1972; and [File 21] [1958] [Oversize-1958 Headquarters Book]. Additional oversize photographs can be found in the TGSIMIG Oversize Photographs box and includes the following heading: [ca 1980?] Phase II Schemes. Corresponding negatives and prints can be matched together with the titles and dates supplied by the photographer or the archivist. Textual records include memos, requisitions for work, and photographers' photo logs of specific events., Additional 35mm color slides are found in IMF Archives Slide Box: 2, Containers 1 through 5 and include the following headings: 1991 2401 Virginia Ave; 1994 New Church; [nd] Phase III Renderings; [nd] Phase III Blueprints; 1994 Church demolition; [ca 1994] Phase III Tie Back Construction Dig out; [ca 1994] Phase III Construction; [ca 994] Construction Front Entrance; [ca 1994] Phase III Construction Cement; [1994/1995] 94/95 Phase III Winter Construction; [nd] Phase III Construction Workers; 5/10/96 Phase III Construction; May 1967 BWRC [Bretton Woods Recreation Center]; August 1967 BWRC; January 1968 BWRC; June, August, September 1968 BWRC; October 1982 BWRC Tennis Area, Children's Playground; October 1982 BWRC Picnic Area, Children's Area, Tennis; October 1982 BWRC Tennis; October 1982 BWRC Tennis Area; October 1982 BWRC Soccer Clubhouse, Children Area; October 1982 BWRC Clubhouse; and October 1982 BWRC Clubhouse, 17th [Seventeenth] Water Hole.