Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) began his career in industrial design in 1929, when he designed the case that surrounded the Gestetner duplicator machine. Loewy is also credited with originating the term streamlining, which he defined as "beauty through function and simplification." Throughout his working years, Loewy created designs ranging from postage stamps and cigarette packages to refrigerators, Studebaker automobiles, and spacecraft components. Additionally, he designed logos for corporation...

The Raymond Loewy Collection, 1956-1974 (2.95 cubic ft.), contains reports and drawings related to the industrial designer’s work on space transportation systems for NASA, and designs for the Cornell-Liberty Safety Car.

The bulk of the material (2.00 cubic ft.) consists primarily of studies and reports created by Raymond Loewy / William Snaith, Inc. for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) regarding the habitability of the Skylab orbiting space station and a space ...