Edward Duckett was an architecture student of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the mid-1940's and subsequently was an architect in Mies's office until 1966. Duckett assembled a collection of photographs and slides, articles, correspondence and office records documenting several projects on which he worked: 860-880 and 900-910 Lake Shore Drive apartments, 2400 Lakeview Apartments, Farnsworth House, Lafayette Park, and others. The collection also includes photographs of Mies, his colleagues, students and employees, as well as images of several exhibitions on Mies's projects.