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The Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection - Fondazione Regionale C. Colombo in Genoa – is among the founder members of AAA/Italia – Onlus, Contemporary Architectural Archives National Association, founded in 1999 to promote cooperation among various associations, private archives and scholars that are interested in the protection, conservation, development and improvement of the remarkable wealth of architectural archives in Italy.
The Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection is particularly interested in the architectural and decorative arts of the first half of the twentieth century and owns the archives of some Italian architects, certified by the Soprintendenza Archivistica per la Liguria on April 30th 1999:
- Ansaldo
- 75 plans for steamships and liners, 6 photo albums
- Beniamino Bellati
- 2.408 drawings and diazos, 603 photos, various documents and publications
- Umberto Bellotto
- 207 photographs
- Attilio Calzavara
- 69 photos, 20 drawings, various documents and books
- Duilio Cambellotti
- 3320 drawings for the decorations of the interior of the Palazzo dell'Acquedotto Pugliese, Bari and Palazzo della Prefettura, Ragusa
- Luigi Carugati
- 69 fotografie, 5 disegni
- Giacomo Cometti
- 3.165 drawings, 807 photos, 62 plaster moulds, various documents and publications –cataloguing in progress
- Renato Corte
- 137 drawings, 2 publications, various sketches and documents
- Giuseppe Crosa di Vergagni
- 6.000 drawings and diazos, various documents, photos, periodicals and books
- Pietro e Alfredo Fineschi
- 946 drawings and diazos, various documents, photos, books and periodicals
- Eugenio Fuselli
- 11 folders containing documents, 23 photographic plates and diazos, 20 envelopes containing photos, 49 writings, 64 volumes
- Demetrio Ghiringhelli
- 20 photos, 2 albums with tempera plates, 10 drawings, 1 painting, 8 cartoons, 9 stencils, various documents
- Agostino Jaccuzzi
- 462 photos, 50 drawings, various documents and publications
- MITA (Manifattura Italiana Tappeti Artistici)
- drawings for carpets, tapestries and textiles – including prototypes and samples – by different artists and designers (Marco Biassoni, Rocco Borella, Aldo Bosco, Paolo Buffa, Tomaso Buzzi, Antonia Campi, Eugenio Carmi, Enrico Ciuti, Flavio Costantini, Fortunato Depero, Francesco Di Cocco, Giorgio Host Ivessich, Johannes Kopetzky Follner, Mario Labò, Emilio Lancia, Leo Lionni, Franca Luccardi, Emanuele Luzzati, Herta Ottolenghi Wedekind, Riccardo Manzi, Arturo Martini, Enrico Paulucci, Arnaldo and Giò Pomodoro, Alberto Ponis, Mario Alberto Ponis, Gio Ponti, Dino Predonzani, Gustavo Pulitzer, Emanuele Rambaldi, Elio Randazzo, Paolo Stamaty Rodocanachi, Oscar and Fausto Saccorotti, Emilio Scanavino, Mario Sironi, Giovanni Solari, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Corinne Steinrisser, Luigi Vietti, Gigiotti Zanini), photos, documents, periodicals and books, plans of the factory by the architect Luigi Carlo Daneri, – cataloguing in progress (Ponis family, Genoa-Rome, on long term loan to The Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection)
- Officine Elettriche Genovesi
- 68 street lamp drawings, 48 city lighting and tramway network plans, various documents
- Leonardo Paterna Baldizzi
- 29 photos, 2 drawings
- Giuseppe Rosso
- 5 folders containing academic drawings
- Alberto Salietti
- 22 cartoons, 17 diplomas, 6 drawings, 1 plaster model, 5 periodicals
- Giulio Zappa
- 157 photos, various documents (Enrico Albisetti, Genova, on long term loan to The Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection)
Other archives:
- L'Azione Coloniale, periodical published in Rome and Venice between 1931 and 1944,
- 5.536 photos, 191 newspaper copies, 6.418 newspaper clippings, 44 documents
- Amministrazione Mackenzie
- various photos and documents
- Raffaello Riccardi
- 30 reports, 15 envelopes containing reports, 300 letters, 8 newspaper clippings, 8 publications
