Correspondence, writings, lectures, exhibit brochures, art catalogs, artwork, and other papers relating primarily to Dearstyne's research on the history of the Bauhaus art school, the school's influence on the development of modern art and 20th century architecture, and two Bauhaus masters, Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and to Dearstyne's career as a photographer, lecturer, and writer. Also includes material pertaining to architecture in Colonial Williamsburg, Va., and Dearstyne's pursuit of photography as a serious art form. Includes a typescript of Shadows in silver; a record of Virginia, 1850-1900, in contemporary photographs taken by George and Huestis Cook, coauthored by Dearstyne and A. Lawrence Kocher (1954), and a draft of Dearstyne's posthumously published work, Inside the Bauhaus (1986). Correspondents include Josef Albers, Hermann Blomeier, George Danforth, Werner Drewes, Henry Dubin, Wils Ebert, Helmut von Erffa, Werner Graeff, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Paul Klee, Kurt Kranz, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Eckhard Neumann, Karl Nierendorf, Pius E. Pahl, Walter A. Peterhans, Oskar Schlemmer, and Erdmann Schmocker.