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'''ARTICLE UNDER CONSTRUCTION'''
'''Irving Kane Pond''' (1857-1939) and his brother Allen Bartlitt Pond (1858–1929)
 
 
[[File:Autobiography of I K Pond.jpg|170px|right|thumb|''Autobiography'']]
== Personal life ==
[[File:Irving_Kane_Pond,_1876.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Irving Kane Pond, 1876]]
 
== Architectural work ==
 
=== Training and early work ===
 
=== Philosophy and style ===
<blockquote>
The Ponds sought to create a modern American architecture without rejecting architectural stylistic traditions, but simplifying them through the emphasis of geometry and the inherent quality of building materials and construction. In that regard, the Ponds were strongly influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, with the emphasis on honest materials used honestly.<ref>David Swan, Preface to ''The Autobiography of Irving K. Pond: The Sons of Mary and Eliihu'' ed.David Swan and Terry Tatum (Oak Park, Ill: The Hyoogen Press, 2009), vii.</ref>
</blockquote>
 
Strong sense of social responsibility .....
 
<blockquote>
Stylistically Irving Pond did not totally fit in one category or another. He stood in the role of an intermediary, halfway between the revolutionary aesthetics and technology of the Chicago School and the Prairie School and the taste for traditional architecture his clients often felt that precedent or literary aesthetics required. His architecture used traditional materials especially brick and employed traditional forms such as gable roofs, but his designs embraced a geometric simplicity with no embellishments — a tenet of the Arts & Crafts movement.<ref>from Ravinia School nomination ..... </ref>
</blockquote>
 
=== Participation in architectural organizations ===
 
=== Gallery of architectural projects ===
'''The L. W. Rogers Building and similar structures'''
[[File:Rogers_Building_1a.jpg|center|400px|thumb|L. W. Rogers Building, 1926]]
 
<gallery widths="200px" perrow="4">
File:MIchigan Union, 1919.png|Michigan Union, 1919
File:Purdue Memorial Union, 1924.JPG||Purdue Memorial Union, 1924
File:MSU Union Building, 1925.jpg|Michigan State University Union, 1925
File:Kansas Memorial Union, 1927.png|Kansas Memorial Union, 1927
File:Michigan League, 1929.jpg|Michigan League, 1929
</gallery>
 
'''Examples of other buildings'''
 
<gallery widths="200px" perrow="4">
File:Highland Park Club House..png|Highland Park Club House, 1891
File:Oregon Public Library.jpg|Oregon Public Library, 1909
File:Manor House Kenosha.jpg|Manor House, Kenosha, WI, 1926
</gallery>
 
== Other activities ==
 
Chicago Literary Club
Hull-House
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[[File:Big Top Rhythms.jpg|right|170px|thumb|''Big Top Rhythms'']]
=== Circus and acrobatics ===
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=== Social clubs and memberships ===
== Writings ==
* '''''The Meaning Of Architecture: An Essay In Constructive Criticism'''''. Boston, Marshall Jones Company, 1918. 226 pages, illustrations. Available at [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/971540.html Hathitrust] and several versions at [https://archive.org/details/meaningofarchite00pond Internet Archive]. A historical reproduction of the 1923 edition is available at [https://www.amazon.com/meaning-architecture-essay-constructive-criticism/dp/1117177548 Amazon.com].
* '''"Eliel Saarinen and his work a word of appreciation and greeting"'''. 1923. Available at [https://books.google.com/books?id=bctPAAAAMAAJ and [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008062880&seq=1 Hathitrust]. Pages extracted from ''The Western Architect'' 32 no. 7 (July, 1923): 75-76 plus plates.
* '''''A Day Under the Big Top, a Study in Life and Art'''''. Chicago: Chicago Literary Club, 1924. 40 pages, with 4 diagrams. "Edition, five hundred and fifteen copies, printed for members of the club in the month of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-four." About circus and acrobatics. Available at [https://books.google.com/books?id=tWB0SUDY1JoC Google Books] and [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015062226652&seq=7 Hathitrust].
* '''''The College Union'''''.  [New York], 1931. 16 pages. Limited availability at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004162973 Hathitrust] and [https://books.google.com/books?id=a_fVAAAAMAAJ Google Books].
* '''"Pullman - America's First Planned Industrial Town"'''. Illinois society of architects. ''Monthly bulletin'' vol. 18-19, nos. 12-1, June-July, 1934. 6-8 pages.
* '''''Big Top Rhythms: A Study in Art and Life''''', written and illustrated by Pond. Chicago, New York, Willett, Clark and Company, 1937. 229 pages, illustrations.
* '''''A Strange Fellow, and Other Club Papers''''', written and illustrated by Pond New York, Chicago, Priv. Print. by Willett, Clark and Company, 1938. 224 pages, illustrations. Available at [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/2976903.html Hathitrust], [https://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/OCA/Books2012-05/strangefellowoth00ilpond/ Open Content Alliance], and  [https://archive.org/details/strangefellowoth00ilpond Internet Archive].
* '''''The Autobiography of Irving K. Pond''''', written in the 1930s and published posthumously. Edited by Terry Tatum and David Swan. Oak Park, IL: Hyoogen Press, 2009.
== Additional resources ==
=== Articles ===
* Szuberla, Guy. "⁨Irving Kane Pond: a Michigan Architect in Chicago" ''Old Northwest'' 5 no. 2 (Summer, 1979): 109-140.
=== Books ===


'''Blavatsky portraits and photographs'''  
* Pond, Irving Kane. '''''The Autobiography of Irving K. Pond: The Sons of Mary and Elihu''''' ed.David Swan and Terry Tatum. Oak Park, Ill: The Hyoogen Press, 2009.


These are photographs, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and other depictions of '''[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]''', also known as HPB.
=== Archival collections ===


This collection of photos was inspired by a display of photos on the '''Theosophy Canada''' website in 2005, "A Pictorial Look at H. P. Blavatsky," which has more recently evolved into a slide show. Many thanks go to the '''Edmonton Theosophical Societ'''y for the inspiration and the research that went into its collection.
* '''The University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library'''.
<ref>John Algeo turned "A Pictorial Look at H.P. Blavatsky" into a PDF file that he printed out. A copy is in the John Algeo Papers, Records Series 08.12, Theosophical Society in America Archives, and that was the impetus for this project. The URL was http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm. It was printed on June 18, 2005. A backup is available on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20051105023559/http://www.theosophycanada.com/bios/HPB_Bio.htm Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive], for the date November 5, 2005.</ref><ref>Slide show called "HP Blavatsky - A Pictorial Biography" is available at [http://www.theosophycanada.com/hp-blavatsky-a-pictorial-biography.php Theosophy Canada], along with individual photographs. Accessed November 13, 2018.</ref>
** [https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-bhl-852090 Pond Family Papers, 1841-1939]. "Correspondence of Elihu B. Pond, editor of Michigan Argus, his sons, Chicago architects, Irving Kane and Allen Bartlit Pond, founders of firm of Pond & Pond, and other family members; include materials concerning family affairs, architectural projects, Jane Addams and the work of Hull House, European travels, politics especially as relates to period of the Civil War and the election of 1896; also photographs, architectural drawings and other visual materials."
* '''The Art Institute of Chicago: Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archives''', Chicago, Illinois.
** [https://www.artic.edu/artworks/262324/pond-and-pond-collection Pond and Pond Collection, c.1895-1938]. "Correspondence, albums, black and white photographic prints, architectural drawings, and architectural reprographic prints."
* '''The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts''', Chicago, Illinois.
** [https://explore.chicagocollections.org/ead/newberry/72/xw4 American Circus Collection, 1891-1939]. "Late 19th and early 20th century circus and theater related illustrations, publicity, programs, photographs and memorabilia" donated by Irving Kane Pond, 1939.
** [https://archives.newberry.org/repositories/2/resources/398 Chicago Literary Club records]. Irving Kane Pond was active in this club, and its records include "weekly papers read by over 250 members, but also correspondence, minutes, a visitors' register, cashbook, and scrapbooks."
* '''Columbia University Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library''', New York.
** [https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/pdf/cul-3460598.pdf Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue architectural drawings and papers 3460598]. Materials related to Irving Kane Pond, Claude Bragdon, and many other architects.
* '''Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog''' Historic American Buildings Survey, Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey, Washington DC.
** [https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/il1014/ Junior League of Chicago, 1447 North Astor Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL]
* '''The Athenaeum of Philadelphia''', Philadelphia, PA.
** [https://archives.philaathenaeum.org/agents/people/116 Pond, Irving K. (Irving Kane), 1857-1939]. "Correspondence to Seeler from architects, designers, and/or members of theAmerican Institute of Architects, both in Boston and Washington DC."


Images used here are scanned from the photo collection of the Theosophical Society in America, the [http://blavatskyarchives.com/theosophypdfs/ Blavatsky Archives], and other sources, which are identified where possible, with copyright data if applicable. Additions and corrections are welcome.
== Notes ==
<references/>


{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;  width:90%;"
[[Category:Architects|Pond, Irving Kane]]
|-
[[Category:Writers|Pond, Irving Kane]]
! Photograph or Art Work
[[Category:Nationality American|Pond, Irving Kane]]
! Year Created
[[Category:People|Pond, Irving Kane]]
! Artist
! Notes
|-
| [[File:H.Hahn and H.Blavatsky.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |Late 1840s
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Painting of young H. P. Blavatsky and her mother, H. Hahn. It is at the [[H. P. Blavatsky House-Museum|H. P. B. museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine]]. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself.
|-
| [[File:HPB - NY.JPG|200px]]
| 1870s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | H. P. Blavatsky in New York days, from blavatskyarchives.com
|-
| [[File:HP Blavatsky 1877.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1877
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| [[File:Bronze medallion.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1878
| [[William R. O'Donovan]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Bronze medallion sculpted by William R. O'Donovan, who knew visited Madame Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] at [[The Lamasery]]. His friendship and the medallion are described by Olcott in [[Old Diary Leaves (book)|''Old Diary Leaves'']], Volume 1, pages 411-412.
|-
| [[File:HPB portrait.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1884
| [[Hermann Schmiechen]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Fragment of painting by [[Hermann Schmiechen]].
|-
| [[File:HPB in 1880s.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1880s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| [[File:HPB reading book JPEG.jpg|200px]]
|
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Photo of HPB reading a book "while residing in Maycot, Crownhill, Upper Norwood, London, at [[Mabel Collins|Mabel Collins']] home She left Ostend for London, May 1, 1887."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> Scanned by Theosophical Society in Archives.
|-
| [[File:HPBphoto.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1887
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| [[File:HPB with Mead and Pryse.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1880s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" |H. P. Blavatsky sitting in a bath-chair, with [[G. R. S. Mead]] (right) and [[James Morgan Pryse]].
|-
| [[File:1888 Kodak photo by W Q Judge.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1887
| [[William Quan Judge]]
| style="text-align:left;" | This view is of HPB at her desk at 17 Landsdowne Road, London, taken by [[William Quan Judge]] with a Kodak camera as she was working on [[Lucifer (periodical)|''Lucifer'']]. "The pen she holds is an American gold pen given to her by a New York Theosophist and made by John Foley. The picture was originally published in [The Path (periodical)|''The Path'']], New York, Vol. VII, May, 1892, p.39."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref> This copy was provided courtesy of Will Thackara at International Theosophical Society (Pasadena); restoration of photo by Pavel Malakhov. QUOTE FROM ECHOES OF THE ORIENT VOL 1 pages 259, 262-263.
|-
| [[File:HPB and HSO final meeting JPEG.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" |1888
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | H. P. Blavatsky and [[Henry Steel Olcott]] in their final meeting, taken in October 1888 in London. "In the photographic reproduction in Collected Writings, X, 176; shows the following handwritten message by H.P.B.: 'To the [[Aryan Theosophical Society]] of New York, with H.P.B.'s and the H.S.O.'s good wishes', London, October, 1888."<ref>Description from Theosophy Canada website, 2005.</ref>
|-
| [[File:HP Blavatsky 1.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | January 8, 1889
| [[Enrico Resta]]
| style="text-align:left;" | "The Sphinx" pose - the most famous image of HPB. This was taken in [[Enrico Resta|Resta's]] studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on [[January 8]], 1889. Six glass plates were taken altogether; in some HPB is looking to the side or is holding a cigarette. The originals are now located in the Archives of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society in England. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives.
|-
| [[File:HPB death mask.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1891
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left;" | Death mask of HPB as printed in May 1991 issue of [[The Theosophist (periodical)|"The Theosophist"]].
|-
| [[File:Borglum_portrait_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | ca1889-1909
| [[Gutzon Borglum]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Painted for his Theosophist father by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, copied from the Resta photograph. This painting hangs in the Meditation Room in the [[L. W. Rogers Building|headquarters building]] of the [[Theosophical Society in America]]. It was painted between 1889 and 1909, when the father died.
|-
| [[File:Founders stature in Adyar.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1907
| Govinda Pillai
| style="text-align:left;" | This statue stands in the Great Hall of the Headquarters Building in Adyar, Chennai, India. "[[Henry Steel Olcott|The Colonel]] stands beside H. P. Blavatsky, who is seated, with his hand on her shoulder, an upright, robust figure, with venerable beard and strongly cut features." The statue was unveiled on [[December 7]], 1907." Colonel Olcott had died on [[February 17]] of that year, and the unveiling was an occasion to honor him and his work with Madame Blavatsky. Tribute addresses were given by [[S. Subramania Iyer|Sir S. Subramania Iyer]], Mr. V. C. Seshachariar, Dr. W. A. English, Mr. P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, Mr. Sitarama Shastri, [[Marie Russak|Mrs. Russak]], and [[Annie Besant]].<ref>"The Unveiling of Colonel Olcott's Statue," ''World Theosophy'' 2.12 (December, 1932), 634-636.</ref>
|-
| [[File:Helder_-_Sketch_of_HPB.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 1931
|[[Z. Vanessa Helder]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Sketch published in [[World Theosophy (periodical)|''World Theosophy'']] vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599.
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - stature with sphynx.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2000s
| Unknown
| style="text-align:left; |
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 1.jpg| 200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2000s
| Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| [[File:Blavatsky HP - head (A.Leonov) 2.jpg|200px]]
| style="height:100px; width:100px; text-align:center;" | 2000s
| Alexey Leonov
| style="text-align:left;" |Young H. P. Blavatsky
|-

Latest revision as of 17:46, 27 June 2026

Irving Kane Pond (1857-1939) and his brother Allen Bartlitt Pond (1858–1929)


Autobiography

Personal life

Irving Kane Pond, 1876

Architectural work

Training and early work

Philosophy and style

The Ponds sought to create a modern American architecture without rejecting architectural stylistic traditions, but simplifying them through the emphasis of geometry and the inherent quality of building materials and construction. In that regard, the Ponds were strongly influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, with the emphasis on honest materials used honestly.[1]

Strong sense of social responsibility .....

Stylistically Irving Pond did not totally fit in one category or another. He stood in the role of an intermediary, halfway between the revolutionary aesthetics and technology of the Chicago School and the Prairie School and the taste for traditional architecture his clients often felt that precedent or literary aesthetics required. His architecture used traditional materials especially brick and employed traditional forms such as gable roofs, but his designs embraced a geometric simplicity with no embellishments — a tenet of the Arts & Crafts movement.[2]

Participation in architectural organizations

Gallery of architectural projects

The L. W. Rogers Building and similar structures

L. W. Rogers Building, 1926
  • Michigan Union, 1919
    Michigan Union, 1919
  • Purdue Memorial Union, 1924
    Purdue Memorial Union, 1924
  • Michigan State University Union, 1925
    Michigan State University Union, 1925
  • Kansas Memorial Union, 1927
    Kansas Memorial Union, 1927
  • Michigan League, 1929
    Michigan League, 1929

Examples of other buildings

  • Highland Park Club House, 1891
    Highland Park Club House, 1891
  • Oregon Public Library, 1909
    Oregon Public Library, 1909
  • Manor House, Kenosha, WI, 1926
    Manor House, Kenosha, WI, 1926

Other activities

Chicago Literary Club Hull-House


Big Top Rhythms

Circus and acrobatics







Social clubs and memberships

Writings

  • The Meaning Of Architecture: An Essay In Constructive Criticism. Boston, Marshall Jones Company, 1918. 226 pages, illustrations. Available at Hathitrust and several versions at Internet Archive. A historical reproduction of the 1923 edition is available at Amazon.com.
  • "Eliel Saarinen and his work a word of appreciation and greeting". 1923. Available at and [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008062880&seq=1 Hathitrust. Pages extracted from The Western Architect 32 no. 7 (July, 1923): 75-76 plus plates.
  • A Day Under the Big Top, a Study in Life and Art. Chicago: Chicago Literary Club, 1924. 40 pages, with 4 diagrams. "Edition, five hundred and fifteen copies, printed for members of the club in the month of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-four." About circus and acrobatics. Available at Google Books and Hathitrust.
  • The College Union. [New York], 1931. 16 pages. Limited availability at Hathitrust and Google Books.
  • "Pullman - America's First Planned Industrial Town". Illinois society of architects. Monthly bulletin vol. 18-19, nos. 12-1, June-July, 1934. 6-8 pages.
  • Big Top Rhythms: A Study in Art and Life, written and illustrated by Pond. Chicago, New York, Willett, Clark and Company, 1937. 229 pages, illustrations.
  • A Strange Fellow, and Other Club Papers, written and illustrated by Pond New York, Chicago, Priv. Print. by Willett, Clark and Company, 1938. 224 pages, illustrations. Available at Hathitrust, Open Content Alliance, and Internet Archive.
  • The Autobiography of Irving K. Pond, written in the 1930s and published posthumously. Edited by Terry Tatum and David Swan. Oak Park, IL: Hyoogen Press, 2009.

Additional resources

Articles

  • Szuberla, Guy. "⁨Irving Kane Pond: a Michigan Architect in Chicago" Old Northwest 5 no. 2 (Summer, 1979): 109-140.

Books

  • Pond, Irving Kane. The Autobiography of Irving K. Pond: The Sons of Mary and Elihu ed.David Swan and Terry Tatum. Oak Park, Ill: The Hyoogen Press, 2009.

Archival collections

  • The University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library.
    • Pond Family Papers, 1841-1939. "Correspondence of Elihu B. Pond, editor of Michigan Argus, his sons, Chicago architects, Irving Kane and Allen Bartlit Pond, founders of firm of Pond & Pond, and other family members; include materials concerning family affairs, architectural projects, Jane Addams and the work of Hull House, European travels, politics especially as relates to period of the Civil War and the election of 1896; also photographs, architectural drawings and other visual materials."
  • The Art Institute of Chicago: Ryerson and Burnham Art and Architecture Archives, Chicago, Illinois.
  • The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts, Chicago, Illinois.
    • American Circus Collection, 1891-1939. "Late 19th and early 20th century circus and theater related illustrations, publicity, programs, photographs and memorabilia" donated by Irving Kane Pond, 1939.
    • Chicago Literary Club records. Irving Kane Pond was active in this club, and its records include "weekly papers read by over 250 members, but also correspondence, minutes, a visitors' register, cashbook, and scrapbooks."
  • Columbia University Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, New York.
  • Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog Historic American Buildings Survey, Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey, Washington DC.
  • The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.

Notes

  1. ↑ David Swan, Preface to The Autobiography of Irving K. Pond: The Sons of Mary and Eliihu ed.David Swan and Terry Tatum (Oak Park, Ill: The Hyoogen Press, 2009), vii.
  2. ↑ from Ravinia School nomination .....
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