The Herbert Alden Collection documents five residential projects completed for private clients in the San Francisco Bay Area between the years of 1911-1922, as well as a file of unidentified drawings. Project documentation consists of drawings....
The AIA/SF records primarily consist of Board and Executive Committee minutes for the years 1907 through 1989 and membership files as well as a few photographs and artifacts. The membership files mainly document past members from the 1950s and 1960s...
Consists of 195 individual project files, containing over 900 drawings created from the 1930s through 1976, which were collected during 1982, the centennial year of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. This collection of architects' drawings...
The American Society of Landscape Architects Records include the years 1937 and 1970-1990 and document the organization's rich history of leadership in the landscape architecture profession. The collection offers information on the inner workings of a group of leading professionals,...
The Anshen & Allen Collection spans the years 1917-2007 (bulk 1940-1994) and includes projects files documenting the first 50 years of the firm’s history and the activities of the two founding architects. The Collection is organized into four series: Personal...
The George A. Applegarth collection primarily documents the construction of Clyde, California, a company town built for the employees of the Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Company and funded through a United States government loan. The collection documents both the planning and...
The Mai K. Arbegast Collection documents Arbegast’s projects and professional activities through drawings, manuscripts, photographs, and slides. The collection is arranged in four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records and Project Records, and includes documentation of her work for...
The E. Geoffrey Bangs collection consists almost entirely of black and white photographs documenting numerous Bay Area residential and commercial buildings. The photographs also include images of UC Berkeley buildings. Some of the photographs in the collection may be for...
The Hermann Barth collection spans the period of 1896-1917 and consists primarily of drawings from the early 1900s. The most well-documented projects in the collection include the South-East Wing of the San Francisco City Hospital (1915- 1916), the German Hospital...
The Hermann C. Baumann collection consists entirely of architectural drawings primarily related to San Francisco apartment buildings designed from 1924-1937. Many of the projects were designed in conjunction with engineer Edward Jose under the firm name Baumann & Jose.
The Douglas and Maggie Baylis collection spans the years 1938-1998 and contains records relating to the Baylis firm's landscape design projects, publishing endeavors, and some personal items. The contents include personal papers, office files, project files, drawings, photographs, and writings....
The Eldon Beck Collection spans the years c. 1968-2014 and includes files created by Beck and his time with the firm RHBA. The collection is organized into three series: Professional Papers, Office Records, Project Records. These records contain correspondence, project...
The Richard Bender Collection spans the years 1950-2013, and includes files created by Bender and associated research organizations. The collection documents his career including his education, research interests, architectural practice, and consulting endeavors. He is known for his work in...
The Theodore C. Bernardi collection consists of student work, HABS information, and one project file. Student work includes books of basic drawing exercises as well as elaborately rendered presentation boards. The collection also contains elevations, plans and detail drawings of...
The Blake Estate Collection spans the years ca. 1922-1998 and contains records documenting its history as the private residence of Anson S. and Anita Blake and later as a teaching resource owned and managed by the University of California, Berkeley,...
The Edward G. & John S. Bolles Records are arranged into two series: Office records and project records. The bulk of the collection consists of project drawings and photographs.
The Ernest and Esther Born Collection spans the years 1924-1985 and contains six series: Personal Papers, Professional papers, Project Records, BART, Golden Gate International Exposition, and the UC Greek Theater Reconstruction. The collection is comprised of two primary parts: Ernest...
The Walter Thomas Brooks collection is comprised of one box of materials primarily consisting of project records created by Brooks and presented in an unbound catalog spanning his career. The majority of these projects are private residences in California, although...
The Bull Collection is comprised of four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, and Project Records. The small amount of Personal Papers contains a student project and correspondence. The Professional Papers include correspondence with clients, colleagues and the public...
The bulk of the collection consists of Cahill's office records which include photographs, clippings and scrapbooks that illustrate his completed projects. Project records primarily relate to funerary commissions, but letters and clippings about the San Francisco Civic Center are also...
The CALA records contain correspondence, reports, newsletters, drawings, and clippings. The collection chronicles the activities of some of the most active landscape architects in the San Francisco Bay Area at a time when they were struggling for professional recognition and...
The Charles Warren Callister Collection spans the years 1936 to 2007, and includes files created by Callister and his numerous firms. The collection is organized into four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, and Project Records. These records contain...
The Campbell & Wong Associates Collection spans the years 1943-2001, documenting the firm's project history and popularity through news clippings, tear sheets, correspondence, drawings, photographs, slides, and awards. The collection is organized into three series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, and...
The A. A. and A.M. Cantin collection documents approximately fifty-six projects through textual records, drawings and photographs. The collection is arranged in two series: Office Records and Project Records. The office records include biographical information, notable projects, and letters of...
The Kenneth Cardwell Collections spans the years from 1941-1994, and includes files created by Cardwell, the firms he worked for, and records pertinent to his research and teaching materials. This collection mainly documents his work as an architect, preservationist, and...
The Alice Ross Carrey Collection spans the years 1945-1962, 1982-2005 and includes files created by Carey at her firm. The collection is comprised of Professional Papers and Project Records created at her architectural practice. The records include (correspondence, project files,...
The Willa Cloys Carmack Collection spans the years 1916-1962 and includes personal, professional, and project records. This collection is organized into two series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers....
The Neal Childs collection includes correspondence, contracts, procedural statements, drawings and scrapbooks documenting the landscape architect's career. Scrapbooks contain original photographs and clippings related to landscape architecture and garden structures, and are arranged by subject. Project records consist of specifications,...
The Thomas D. Church collection documents over two hundred of Church's projects through textual records, drawings and photographs. The collection is arranged in four series: Office Records, Project Records, Display Boards, and Additional Donations. The office records include correspondence relating...
The Professional Papers contain biographical material, files related to awards, travel, and Ciampi's participation in the 1959 architects creativity study conducted by U.C. Berkeley's Institute for Personality Assessment & Research. The Office Records consist primarily of publicity materials such as...
The Clark & Beuttler records span 40.5 linear feet and date from 1920 to 1968. The collection contains notes, clippings, small sketches, and correspondence, all organized by project. The collection also consists of black-and-white photographs, negatives, and Clarke's postcard collection...
The John Upton Clowdsley collection contains personal papers, office and project records. Personal papers consist of Clowdsley's student work from UC Berkeley. Office records include cost estimate cards for approximately 160 of Clowdsley's projects and photographs of completed projects. Project...
The William P. Coburn Collection consists of drawings documenting 13 projects of primarily residential architecture and landscape designs. There are also two commercial projects of which Coburn designed the signage for storefronts in Oakland, CA....
The Office Records document administrative operations, public relations efforts, financial transactions, and correspondence. Clippings from newspapers and tear sheets from magazines in which Cohen's projects were featured, and some photographs are included. ...
The J. Lloyd Conrich collection includes architectural drawings and photographs primarily documenting Conrich's own architectural work. The collection also contains some magazine and newspaper clippings, various post cards, and handmade greeting cards.
The Ernest Coxhead collection consists of a small number of photographs and drawings of residences designed by Coxhead and Coxhead, photographs of the A.E.F. School of Architecture in LeMans (approximately 1919), and miscellaneous clippings of images and poetry.
Records in the Olof Dahlstrand Collection span the years 1947-1983. The collection is organized into three series: Personal Papers, Project Records, and Art and Artifacts. Personal Papers include local and regional newspaper articles and personal correspondence from the 1960s to...
Some of Dailey's significant projects include the Red Cross Headquarters and Owens Residence in San Francisco, the WWII Pacific War Memorial in the Philippines, the Brazil Building at the GGIE, and numerous hotels, residences, and buildings for the University of...
The collection consists of drawings for both residential and commercial building in the South Bay and Peninsula areas....
The Sam Davis Collection is comprised of two cartons and two small boxes of material based primarily on his professional career. The bulk of the collection is made up of drawings and photographs of his many projects, most of which...
The Clinton Day collection consists of photographs and a clipping from the American Architect and Building News (a drawing by the architect). The photographs are of UC Berkeley buildings that have since been destroyed. This includes two residences designed by...
The collection spans the years 1933 to 2001, and includes DeMars' personal papers, records from his private practice and professional career, and materials generated by the firms DeMars & Reay, DeMars & Wells, and DeMars & Maletic.
The Kaneji Domoto Collection spans the years 1928-2002 and includes personal, professional, and project records. This collection is organized into five series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Frank Lloyd Wright (Taliesin) Papers, Project Records (Architecture), and Project Records (Landscape Architecture). ...
The collection contains biographical material, correspondence, and publicity files, as well as notes, specifications, sketches, and drawings for both client driven projects and designs for houses, furniture, screens and arbors. Projects include primarily residences in southern California, Drake's various offices,...
The Dutcher collection consists of one series, Project Records, and the projects contain project files, drawings, photographs, and slides. There are two models in the collection, for the Swanson residence and the unbuilt Church of the Holy Trinity. The collection...
Contains records related to the life and career of landscape architect Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000). The collection includes files created by Eckbo and the numerous firms with which he worked. Contains a wide range of materials documenting Eckbo's long, innovative and...
The Joseph Esherick collection is arranged in four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, and Project Files. Student drawings and travel sketchbooks comprise the bulk of Esherick's personal records. His professional papers include speeches and writings on topics such...
The Fairs and Expositions collection consists of drawings, photographs, postcards and publications that document a variety of fairs and expositions nationwide. The collection is organized into five series: I. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, II. Panama-California Exposition, III. Golden Gate International Exposition,...
The collection consist of personal and professional papers, records of Farrand's work as a landscape architect, and records relating to the Reef Point Library.
Contains primarily black and white photographs and negatives of architectural interior and exterior views, as well as landscapes.
Field has been recognized as one of the country's premier designers of urban in-fill retail, institutional and residential projects. His work includes Musto Plaza, one of the early remodeled warehouse buildings in San Francisco’s Jackson Square; The Rosston Townhouse Condominiums,...
The French collection consists primarily of drawings and specifications documenting the French's collaborative and individual work. The majority of the records are those of Helen D. French and is largely architectural in nature. The records are arranged into two series:...
The Edward Frick collection consists of his award winning "Festival Hall and Open Air Theater" drawing from the 1912 San Francisco Architectural Club competition. It also contains numerous drawings from projects completed with Arthur Brown, Jr., including detail and shop...
The bulk of this collection consists of photographs documenting Howard Friedman's architectural work. This, along with a scrapbook, portfolio, and proposal book, make up the whole of project documentation. The collection does not contain any drawings, save for a handful...
Most of the records were created by or collected by the San Francisco office of the Friends of Terra Cotta. The records of the organization are organized into sub-series including administration, correspondence, the FOTC Newsletter, chapters, awards, programs and events;...
Architect John Funk helped make famous the second "Bay Region Style" of architecture, which combined the openness and clarity of the International Style with the regional traditions of use of local materials and a sensitivity to the landscape. The Funk...
The collection consists of student work, travel scrapbooks, and architectural drawings. Titled "An Architect's Journey through Europe" travel scrapbooks contain drawings, sketches, photographs, and notes on buildings. The project records, comprised solely of drawings include housing and furniture designs as...
The collection, which encompasses the years 1920-1970, consists of records, drawings, and photographs relating to Michael Goodman's architectural and teaching careers. The collection is organized into five series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Papers, Office Records, and Project Records. It...
The Charles Sumner Greene Collection contains a wide variety of materials documenting Greene's life, both personal and professional. The records, which cover nearly a century, represent almost every period of his life and work but are not complete. The collection...
This collection documents both the personal life and the architectural career of Clyde Grimes. Organized into four series: personal papers, professional papers, office records, and project records; this collection spans 8 linear feet and dates from 1939 through 2010. Personal...
The records are arranged into two Series: Office Records and Project Records.The limited Office Records consist of correspondence, public relations material, and two notebooks containing notes and sketches related to individual projects. The bulk of the collection is comprised of...
The Henry Gutterson collection contains a limited number original drawings, blueprints, and specifications relating to residential and church designs. Projects in the collection include the First Church of Christ Scientist (Santa Barbara), the Berkeley High School auditorium, Ninth Church of...
The Donald L. Hardison Collection spans the years 1936-2003, and includes files created by Hardison and his firms. The collection is organized into four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, and Project Records that cover Hardison’s career including his...
The Sami Hassid collection contains four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Papers, and Project Records. The Personal Papers contain a detailed Personal History Documentation written by Hassid, many legal and financial papers relating to the Hassid family's immigration to...
The collection documents the career of William C. Hays as an architect and as an educator working for the University of California.
Documents the Heath's personal lives and the progression of Heath Ceramics. The collection consists of nine series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, Project Records, N.S. Gustin, Ione Factory, Tahlequah Factory, Art and Artifacts, and Additional Donations. Included in these...
The Ron Herman Collection spans the years 1962-2015 (bulk 1987-2015), and includes files created by landscape architect Ron Herman. The collection is organized into six series and documents Herman's career including his education, writings and research, and landscape architecture practice....
The Collection consists of two Series: Office Records and Project Records. The Office records contain project portfolios, files related to a proposed memorial on Alcatraz Island, scrapbooks of clippings, and correspondence. There is also material relating to the U.S. Army...
The Hester/McNally collection primarily consists of planning and project records, including a substantial amount of material highlighting their evolutionary strategies for engaging communities during the course of designing a project. Archival materials include site specific historical reference materials, correspondence with...
The Hill and Kruse collection primarily consists of project files and drawings of their many projects, most of which are private residences in the Bay Area.
This collection is organized into four series and documents Hirshen's architectural career from 1965 until 2004. Series I: Personal Papers comprises of Hirshen's biographical information, including his curriculum vitae and oral history. Series II: Professional Papers consists of case study...
The Donald M. Hisaka Collection spans the years 1962-2007 and documents Hisaka’s career as architect and educator. The Collection is organized into five Series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, Project Records, and Joseph Kaempfer Projects. The Project Records make...
The Lewis P. Hobart collection consist of drawings from the Shredded Wheat Company building (Oakland 1915), the White Investment Company building (San Francisco 1907), the Kiersted residence (Hillsborough n.d.), the Grant residence (Burlingame, CA, 1913), and the Fireman's Fund Insurance...
The Henry H. Hodgson Collection consists of travel sketches and watercolors, and architectural drawings. The travel sketches are from various European locations, and were most likely drawn during Hodgson's eight-month sojourn to Europe and North Africa in the 1932. [The...
The Walter Hood Collection spans the years 1980-2014 and includes files created by Hood and his firm Hood Design Studio. The collection is organized into five series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, Project Records, and Digital Files. These records...
The Hooker Collection consists primarily of 23 photograph albums recording Hooker's travels in Europe and her home state of California. Other documentation includes a folder of publisher's proof prints from her book Farmhouses and Small Provincial Buildings in Southern Italy,...
The Howard & White collection is organized in two series, Personal Papers and Project Records. The first series contains minimal personal records concerning George Howard. The collection consists primarily of drawings and correspondence which document residential projects completed by the...
The Henry Temple Howard collection consists of correspondence, clippings, specifications, drawings and photographs primarily relating to Howard's military service and architectural career. The collection is organized into four series: Personal Papers, Office Records, Project Records and Additional Donations....
The collection, which spans the years 1884-1931 (bulk 1891-1927), consists of records, drawings, and photographs relating to John Galen Howard's architectural career. The collection comprehensively documents the buildings for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition in Seattle, Washington. It also shows Howard's architectural...
The John Galen Howard materials at the University of California, Berkeley represent the full range of Howard's professional work as well as his personal life. The materials also provide insight into Northern California architecture and design, in addition to architectural...
The Joseph Howland Papers span the years 1942-2000 and contain records relating to Howland's work as an editor of several garden design magazines, as a floricultural marketing writer, and as a teacher. Included are copies of articles written and several...
The collection documents the architectural work of Edward Hussey in Japan and Hawaii. The bulk of the collection is the Principia College project in Elsah, Illinois.
The Mary Rutherfurd Jay collection documents Jay's career as a landscape architect, her lectures on gardens, and her involvement in the profession. Research notes and images on gardens around the world and architectural drawings form the bulk of the collection....
Contains records related to the life and career of landscape architect Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) who practiced primarily in England. Documents Jekyll's collaborative relationships with architectcs, especially Edwin Lutyens, through project records. Records include correspondence, photographs, drawings, and albums.
The Jim Jennings Collection spans the years 1969-2014 and documents Jennings’s career as an architect and the projects of his firms. The Collection is organized into four Series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, and Project Records. The Project Records...
The collection documents the architectural work of Creston H. Jensen, with a focus on his ecclesiastical projects.
The collection consists primarily of materials Jones used for her teaching and research.
The Stafford Jory Collection contains three flat files of project files and drawings, most of which are private residences in the Bay Area. Project records also include his institutional work around UC Berkeley and his decades-long association with Mountain View...
The Casey Kawamoto Collection spans the years 1945-2001 and includes files documenting his life and work. Includes drawings, photographs, correspondence, portfolios, and administrative files.
The George H. Kelley Papers spans the years 1939-c.1990 and documents Kelley’s life and career. The collection is divided into two series: Personal Papers and Professional Papers, and consists of photographs, clippings, film reels and Kelley’s personal scrapbook.
The Emerson Knight Collection spans the years 1898 to 1965 and documents Knight's personal life, projects, and professional activities through reports and correspondence, drawings, and photographs. The collection is arranged in four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Project Records, and...
The Julian Floyd Knox Collection is divided into two series: Personal Papers and Project Records. The Project Records make up the bulk of the collection and contain architectural drawings, primarily from Knox's time as a solo practitioner with a small...
The Ernest J. Kump Collection spans the years 1928 to 1992, and includes files created by Kump and his numerous firms. The collection is organized into six series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, Project Records, University of California, Santa...
The Ernest J. Kump, Sr. Collection spans the years 1914 to 1939, and includes drawings created by Kump and his firm documenting projects throughout his career. The collection is organized into two series, Personal Papers and Project Records, and contains...
The collection documents Lansburgh's student work, travels, and architectural projects.
The collection documents Lee's architectural projects throughout Northern California.
The Liebermann Collection primarily consists of drawings and photographs documenting the single-family homes he designed during the course of his career. The collection is arranged in two series: Professional Papers and Project Records spanning the dates 1957 to 1996.
The Karl Linn Collection spans the years c.1925-2005 (bulk 1955-2005) and includes files documenting the life and professional work of landscape architect Karl Linn. The Collection is categorized into six series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Papers, Office Records, Project...
Collection of Burton Litton, architect, 1948-2005 (bulk of 1965-1998). The Litton collection is comprised of four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Papers, and Project Records.
The Donlyn Lyndon/Lyndon Buchanan Collection spans the years 1957-2012, with the bulk of collection from 1960-1995.The collection is organized into eight series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Papers (University of California, Berkeley), Faculty Papers (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Office Records,...
The Clare Cooper Marcus collection is primarily comprised of course materials and student work from her time teaching at the University of California, Berkeley from 1969 to 1994 and research notes from her field studies at St. Francis Square (San...
Robert B. Marquis Collection, c. 1947, 1953-1994. The collection is comprised of four series: Personal Papers (student drawings, CV, negatives of personal photographs), Professional Papers (transcripts and outlines for lectures, related correspondence and clippings), Office Records (correspondence, public relations material,...
The Tallie Maule Collection spans the dates 1937 to circa 1970 and contains material that document his academic and architectural career. The Collection is organized into five series. The first series, Personal Papers is comprised of biographical information and Maule's...
Contains records relating to all aspects of architect Bernard Maybeck's life. The contents include personal papers, correspondence, office files, project files, drawings, and photographs. The records describe the unique vision of Maybeck's designs, including his use of unusual materials and...
The Bernard Maybeck materials at the University of California, Berkeley encompass all aspects of his life. The contents include personal papers, correspondence, office files, project files, drawings, and photographs. The records describe the unique vision of Maybeck's designs, including his...
The collection documents the architectural work of McCarthy with a focus on the libraries that he designed.
This collection, which spans the years 1897-1993 (bulk 1930-1967), consists of records, drawings, specifications and photographs relating to the architectural careers of William G. Merchant and Hans U. Gerson. It contains primarily records of the architectural firms William G. Merchant,...
The William G. Merchant papers span the years 1934-1941 and are arranged into four series: Personal Papers, Golden Gate International Exposition, Project Records, and Additional Donations. The collection contains correspondence, reports, drawings, financial records, articles, blueprints and meeting minutes. The...
The collection primarily consists of project records containing specifications and plans, and photographs of completed projects. These records document the work done by Meyer in a number of partnerships, and contain a wide range of building types throughout the state....
The collection documents Meyers' architectural work as an independent practitioner, in a number of partnerships, and as Alameda County Architect. The collection also includes records of the architectural work of Mildred Meyers.
The collection, which spans the years 1930-1978 (bulk 1954-1968), consists of records, drawings, photographs, and papers relating to the architectural career of Germano Milono. Working mostly in California and Nevada, Germano Milono and Associates took on educational, civic, commercial, medical,...
The Mogensen Collection is organized in four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, and Project Records. The Personal Papers are comprised of biographical material and correspondence. Professional Papers include Awards and licenses, and his involvement with the San Mateo...
The Howard Moïse collection spans the years 1911-1964 and documents Moïse's architectural and teaching careers and his personal travels. The collection is organized in six series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Papers, Office Records, Project Records, and Art. The records...
The collection documents Julia Morgan's architectural education and career.
The Julia Morgan materials at the University of California, Berkeley represent the papers and records of one of the earliest female architects in the United States. The materials serve as a window into California architecture and design in the early...
The collection documents Julia Morgan's early architectural career.
The collection primarily documents the professional activities and architectural projects of Gertrude Comfort Morrow and Irving F. Morrow, including projects created by the firms of Morrow & Garren and Morrow & Morrow.
The Louis Christian Mullgardt collection consists of specifications and drawings for the Evans residence in Mill Valley, drawings and a photograph of the Court of the Ages (from the Panama Pacific International Exposition), drawings of a commercial building in Honolulu,...
The Records of the National Peace Garden span the years 1985-2002. The Records are organized into five series: Board Records, Public Relations, Design Competition, Catalano Design & Collaboration, and Royston Design & Collaboration. Within these series, subseries have been organized...
Personal and Professional Papers consist primarily of correspondence with friends and colleagues, as well as personal photographs. A scrapbook that Nisbet created during his life that contains numerous clippings on Frank Lloyd Wright is also included in the Personal Papers...
The Oakland & Imada Collection spans the years 1942-2002 (bulk 1953-1999) and includes files documenting the projects of the firm and its predecessor, Claude Oakland & Associates, and the activities of the two partners. The Collection is organized into five...
The Patricia O'Brien Collection consists of five Series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Papers, Office Records, and Project Records. The series were arranged by the archivist due to a lack of original order. ...
The collection consists of records created by the Olmsted Brothers firm, as well as materials relating to Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.
The Donald Olsen Collection spans the years 1941-1998 and includes files created by Olsen and his work with Vernon DeMars and Joseph Esherick. The collection is organized into five series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Records, Office Records, Project Records....
The Tito Patri Collection spans the years 1955-2015. The collection is organized into four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, and Project Records. The collection includes a published sketchbook of his travel drawings, regional studies and reports, and documents...
This collection documents the architectural work of the firms Peters & Clayberg and Peters, Clayberg, & Caufield, with the bulk of the collection regarding Peters, Clayberg, & Caufield. Organized into two series: Series I. Office Records and Series II. Project...
The Benjamin Polk collection spans the years 1938-1993 and is comprised of his scrapbooks. The collection contains photographs, correspondence, Polk's writings, and news clippings, primarily about Polk's projects. The scrapbooks also include some personal papers, such as biographical information, correspondence,...
The Willis Polk collection documents Polk's architectural career, his professional involvement and his interest in the civic improvement of San Francisco. Architectural drawings from 1890-1924 form the bulk of the collection, as well as additional manuscript records. The collection is...
The William Otis Raiguel papers span the years 1905-1932 and include correspondence, contractual agreements, travel diaries, and an insurance application. The correspondence, dated from 1909-1920, is between Raiguel and John Galen Howard, and documents some of their financial arrangements. The...
This collection, which spans the years 1965-1997, consists of drawings, photographs, slides, professional papers, articles, press releases, and tear sheets relating to the architectural career of James Ream. It includes work that he did when he was with the firm...
The Donald and Sylvia Reay Collection spans the years 1938 to 1999, and includes the Reays' personal papers, records from private practice and professional careers, and materials generated by the firms DeMars & Reay, Reay Associates, and Reay-Tsuruta Associates. The...
The Alan E. Ribera collection consists primarily of project photographs and slides, arranged alphabetically within record type. These images depict Ribera's designs of various parks and recreational settings and their usage by the general public. Parks throughout California are represented,...
The Robbins Collection contains drawings, personal papers, awards submission binders, completed project photographs, slides, newspaper clippings, correspondence, notes, contracts specifications, and preliminary sketches from Robbins career, spanning 1955 to 2007. The records come from Robbins work as the Director of...
The George T. Rockrise collection contains some personal documents, such as letters sent to family during Rockrise's years as a Fulbright Scholar in Italy, holiday cards and travel sketches, but is mostly comprised of professional papers, office records and project...
Burton Rockwell's records span the years 1946-1985 and include the files of Reid, Rockwell Banwell & Tarics, Rockwell & Banwell, and Rockwell & Rockwell. The collection is organized into three series: Personal Papers are comprised solely of Rockwell's architecture course...
Contains records related to the life and career of landscape architect Robert N. Royston. The vast majority of this collection documents the projects of Royston's various firms, with a much smaller representation of Royston's work outside the firm in the...
The Chris W. Runge collection consists primarily of architectural drawings, both student renderings and professional commercial and residential projects. The collection is organized into two series: Personal Papers, which consist of student works, and Project Records, which contain drawings by...
The George A. Schastey collection consists of drawings relating to the Lauriston Estate in Portola Valley, California. Drawings consist of sketches, working drawings, full-size details, and presentation drawings for the original residence, Villa Lauriston, the Patricia Law Homestead, and the...
The Schmidt Collections is comprised entirely of project records. The project records include a few sketches, studies, and designs but are primarily working drawings....
The Geraldine Knight Scott Collection documents Scott's architectural projects and professional activities through drawings, manuscripts and photographs. The collection includes biographical information written by Scott, education records, travel journals from several journeys to Europe, teaching records, correspondence relating to professional...
The Harry W. Shepherd collection principally documents Shepherd's work as a horticulturist, instructor, and landscape architect. The collection is arranged in four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Papers, and Project Records. Personal records are minimal, but include Shepherd's curriculum...
The SMWM collection consists of manuscript materials (project files, marketing materials, correspondence, meeting notes, final reports, notebooks, etc.), drawings, photographs (including slides and photographs), and born digital items created by the design firm SMWM. The collection is organized into six...
The Horace G. Simpson collection consists of photographs and drawings relating to Simpson's education and to competition entries by the firm Wood & Simpson. Photographs include images of Simpson's second place drawings for the 1908 Rotch Scholarship Competition and a...
The Louis Smaus Collection spans the years c.1915-1922 and documents Smaus's career. The collection is one series: Project records and Professional Papers, and consists of drawings, photographs, and blueprintsclippings, film reels and Kelley's personal scrapbook.
The collection consists of the fragile original plans and specifications for the houses in St. Francis Wood. Unlike the rest of the collections at the EDA, these plans are listed by address on the project index....
Located in the southwestern corner of San Francisco, St. Francis Wood is a prime example of the "Garden City" ideals of neighborhood planning popular at the turn of the 20th century. The St. Francis Wood Virtual collection contains digital images...
The Collection is divided into Professional Papers and Project Records; it consists primarily of project records with just a few professional papers. The professional papers include clippings, awards and the transcript of an oral history done for the Thomas Church...
The Walter Steilberg Collection spans the years 1910-1973 and documents Steilberg's engineering and architectural careers, as well as his own research into building materials and the structural effects of earthquakes. The collection is organized into five series: Personal Papers, Professional...
The materials are arranged in two series: Personal and Professional Records and Project Files. The project files consist of drawings and manuscript materials pertaining to specific projects. The Personal and Professional Records consist of materials about Stein and also include...
The Joseph Allen Stein Collection consists of architectural drawings that document the buildings he designed in India from the early 1950s through the 1970s. Some of the building were designed in association with Benjamin Polk. The drawings are all blueline...
The Claude Stoller Collection is comprised of two boxes of material that primarily represent his career as a Faculty member at UC Berkeley. The bulk of the collection consists of course materials and student work from 1957-1991. Also included in...
The Harold A. Stump collection consists of correspondence, photographs, research files, and lecture notes that document his travels and teaching career. Personal papers include a large collection of letters to his siblings, family photographs, and student work. Research files document...
The collection primarily consists of architectural drawings for Northern California residences.
The Robert Tetlow Collection spans the years 1928-1987 (bulk 1953-1985) and concentrates mainly on Tetlow's work as a landscape architect, an author, and professor. The collection includes textural documentation, photographs, and drawings that have been organized into four series: Personal...
The Paul Thiene collection consists primarily of visual materials documenting Thiene's work as a landscape architect. ...
The John Hudson Thomas collection span 28 linear feet and date from circa 1913 to circa 1940. The collection is composed primarily of architectural drawings and reprographic copies of residences and some commercial buildings in the San Francisco Bay area...
The Terry Tong Collection spans the dates circa 1943 to 1994 and contains materials that document his academic and architectural career. The Collection is organized into three series: Personal Papers comprised of biographical information and Tong's architecture course work while...
The collection spans the years 1959 to 2012 and consists of five series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Faculty Papers, Project Records, and Posters. His student work and his extensive career as an author, lecturer, and book, exhibit, and graphic designer...
The R. Dudley Trudgett Collection is organized into four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, and Project Files. The Personal Papers comprise the bulk of the collection containing student and personal drawings and other artworks created during his attendance...
The collection consists of records of architect William Turnbull Jr. and the Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, and Whitaker architectural firm. The majority of the collection documents William Turnbull Jr./MLTW projects between 1958-1997. The Sea Ranch development, commissioned by Oceanic Properties, is...
The collection, which spans from 1920 to 1970 (bulk 1920-1945), consists of records, photographs, and publications relating primarily to Maunsell Van Rensselaer's horticultural career. The collection comprehensively documents his research for the Famous Trees of California project, as well as...
The H. Leland and Adele W. Vaughan Collection spans the years 1931 – 1955 and contains records relating to the couple's professional partnership as landscape architects. Included are project files, drawings, and photographs. The collection is useful for researching the...
Records for Dmitri Vedensky span the years 1948-1996. The collection is organized into four series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, and Project Records. Within these series documents are ordered chronologically and alphabetically....
This collection documents six residential projects designed by Veverka, during the time he worked with architect Henry Hill (Farm West III residence) as well as during the time he ran his own independent architecture practice in San Francisco. Materials date...
The collection is organized into five series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, Office Records, Project Records, North Park Shopping Center, and Additional Donations. The majority of the collection documents Richard A. Vignolo, Landscape Architect projects, which span the years 1972-2003 and...
The Peter Walker/Peter Walker and Partners Collection spans the years 1971-2010 and includes files created by landscape architect Peter Walker and his various firms. The collection consists only of project records selected for transfer to the EDA, which document professional...
The bulk of the Weihe, Frick & Kruse collection consists of records documenting Weihe, Frick & Kruse projects, but the collection also contains some material that predates the establishment of Weihe, Frick & Kruse, as well as project files and...
The Winfield Scott Wellington collection consists of project photographs and drawings, spanning the years 1930-1971. The majority of the drawings and photographs reflect Wellington's interest in residential design. The collection also includes drawings relating to exhibit designs for the Fine...
The James D. Wickenden collection consists of student work and other drawings. Coursework includes drawing exercises from high school and from a Stereotomy course (Architecture 107) at UC Berkeley. Project drawings are primarily residential, and include the Gilman house in...
This collection consists of publications, drawings, photographs, and a smattering of correspondence relating to the architectural career of Alfred C. Williams. It includes a fair sampling of his student work, his travel sketchbooks, and project records relating to his work...
The Joseph Worcester collection consists of 14 bound volumes of scrapbooks containing purchased photographs, clippings from the Architectural Review, and other magazines. Some volumes contain photographs of Italian artwork, including one volume of Venice. Two of the volumes are architectural...
The records of William and Catherine Wurster span the years 1914 to 1979. The majority of the collection contains Personal Papers of the couple, particularly their photos and slides from various trips abroad, starting with William's 1922 trip to Europe...
Contains records related to the life and career of architect William Wilson Wurster (1895-1973) and the architectural firm Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons. Documents Wurster's collaborative relationships and professional friendships as well as Wurster and WBE projects. Records include correspondence, reports,...
Consists primarily of project records, which include specifications, drawings, correspondence, and notes. Drawings, which form the bulk of the collection, largely relate to residential work, although some commercial and apartment buildings, including Normandy Village, are also included. The collection also...