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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs documenting the activities and services of the American Lung Association of Washington and various county groups dedicated to fighting tuberculosis |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Percy Dwight Bentley (1885-1968) was an architect from the Midwest who practiced in Lane County, Oregon from 1939-1961. His early work shows the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan. The collection documents his work from 1951-1962 and includes churches, residences, and commercial structures. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection comprises architecture files of architect Herman Brookman, including drawings, specifications, correspondence, and photographs concerning 23 projects in Oregon. The photographs include images of design and architectural and decorative details, by professional photographers, of residences and several other structures designed by Brookman. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Claude R. Butcher was an architect. The collection contains original drawings, layouts on tracing paper, blueprints, correspondence, and reference material. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Campus Operations oversees the design and construction, maintenance, repair, renovation, cleaning of campus buildings and building systems, generation and distribution of utilities, and the stewardship of university grounds. The collection contains records of facilities services and campus operations and material includes physical plant, buildings, meeting minutes, annual reports, committee files, 1927-1994 |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Herbert Congdon (1876-1965) was an architect and writer who researched, designed and wrote about historical architecture and furniture, especially churches. The collection consists of an autobiography, manuscripts, correspondence, drawings, plans and photographs of churches and ecclesiastical furniture. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Papers of a set designer and faculty member of the University of Washington, who taught at the School of Drama from 1927 until 1975 |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Modern dimensioned drawings of the Crystal Pool building at Second Avenue and Lenora Street in downtown Seattle |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library |
| Summary: | Papers of a farmer, surveyor, merchant, lawyer, and justice of the peace in Gilliam County, Oregon. Includes correspondence, diary, financial records, notes on farming, scale drawings and plans for farm structures and houses, and genealogical materials. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Charles Gilman Davis (1918-1979) was an architect and educator. The C. Gilman Davis Papers include architectural project files, project drawings, and research and educational material that reflect his career as an architect and educator. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Joseph Thomas Donaldson was a hop grower in Springfield and Thurston, Oregon. Papers include financial documents such as contracts, sales receipts, accounting records and a certificate of weight. His papers mostly consist of handwritten incoming correspondences to James Donaldson and his family. |
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| Repository: | George Fox University Archives |
| Summary: | This collection is the historical materials on the campus and buildings of George Fox University. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Walter Henry Gerke (c. 1891-1982) and Florence Holmes Gerke (1896-1964) were landscape architects. The collection contains 2 flat file folders of architectural plans reflecting their work on the Bonneville Power Navigation project and the Washington Park Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Architectural files, personal and professional correspondence, teaching materials, writings, diaries, ephemera, and other papers of the Gould, Fay, and Ober families in Seattle, Washington |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records relating to neighborhood planning and activities in Greenwood and other neighborhoods of north Seattle. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Family photographs, architectural drawings, and photographs of architectural work of Seattle architect Kenneth Hargreaves. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection comprises architectural drawings for two projects in Eugene, Oregon by Warren Heywood Williams, the Masonic Temple and the Oregon Electric Railway passenger station. Original full-size detail working drawings for the Masonic Temple and revisions for the Oregon Electric Railway Station, created by the firm of Doyle, Patterson and Beach, are also included. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Harry A. Herzog (1893-) was an architect in practice in Portland, Oregon, in the firm of Bennes & Herzog. Collection comprises architectural tracings, renderings, specifications and photographs for 27 commercial and residential architecture projects in the Portland, Oregon area by American architect Harry Albert Herzog. |
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| Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Historic American Buildings Survey Collection consists of architectural drawings and photographs of selected historical buildings in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The building selection ranges in type and style from the monumental and architect-designed to the utilitarian and vernacular. The sampling is intended to assist with the documentation of architectural heritage, as well as with design and interpretation of historic resources. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs documenting the Fox Theatre (Music Hall Theatre) before its demolition in 1991-1992. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Historic American Buildings Survey photographic and paper documentation of Longacres racetrack, Renton, Washington by a UW lecturer in photography in the School of Architecture |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs documenting the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery before its renovation in 1997 by UW lecturer in photography |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Leslie D. Howell (1884-1969) was an architect and engineer in the Portland firm of Knighton & Howell. The projects are documented in architectural drawings and photographs, and consist of residences, commercial structures, educational institutions, and state offices, from 1912 to 1952. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Architectural drawings for the residence of Mr. and Mrs. P.K. Leberman in Seattle, Washington by the first woman to graduate from UW with an architecture degree |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Architectural drawings and photographs of architectural projects, murals, and landscapes |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Olaf Laurgaard (1880-1945) was city engineer of Portland, Oregon. The papers are correspondence, reports, plans, specifications, and drawings for a Portland, Oregon waterfront project, 1919-1933, and other city projects. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Ellis F. Lawrence was an American architect. Conllection includes correspondence, architectural drawings, and photographs relating to projects undertaken by Lawrence & Holford, or McNaughton, Raymond & Lawrence, mainly in Oregon and Washington, from 1909 to 1924. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Lawrence, Tucker & Wallmann was an architectural firm in Portland, Oregon, from 1946-1960. It was the successor firm to Tucker and Wallmann, and Lawrence and Lawrence, two other Portland, Oregon firms. The principals of the firm were Abbott Lawrence, Ernest F. Tucker, and George R. Wallmann. The collection includes project files, drawings, and film. |
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| Repository: | Lane Community College Archives |
| Summary: | Collection documents the day-to-day and yearly activities of LCC at Cottage Grove including administrative records; curriculum records; and photographs, blueprints, and administrative records of the new facility completed in 1997. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | The firm of Lord-Schryver, Landscape Architects, was established in Salem, Oregon in 1929. Working out of their home, Elizabeth Lord and Edith (Nina) Schryver designed gardens located throughout Oregon as well as in Washington. Edith Schryver created and developed the design and construction plans while Elizabeth Lord concentrated on plant composition. The collection consists primarily of landscaping plans and drawings, correspondence and office files, subject files, and photographs, plus a variety of other materials relating to their profession as landscape architects. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Loren Holcombe Milliman (1901-1975) was a working journalist and professor of journalism in the Northwest. He worked on the Oregonian and the Columbian, edited the Oregon Grange Bulletin, and edited and published Better Fruit Magazine. Collection consists of professional correspondence; manuscripts of articles, radio scripts, and speeches; published material by and about Milliman; and issues, 1935-1945, of Farm, Home and Garden, a Sunday supplement of the Oregonian, as well as photographs. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | The Municipal Art Commission Subject Files, 1955-1969, contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, and press clippings relating to the programs, activities, and administration of the Commission. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs, negatives, and color slides of various apartment buildings, residences, parks, monuments, and architectural structures of historical significance in Seattle and the greater Puget Sound region. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records of Seattle City Council Member Judy Nicastro, dating 1999-2003, including Subject Files and Land Use Committee Records. Of particular interest are records related to her work on the Housing and Land Use Committees. Also included are records documenting issues related to campaign finance contributions from an adult entertainment club whose land use application was before the City Council. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection comprises architectural plans, drawings, specifications and photographs for residences and public buildings primarily in Rhode Island and New York by American architect Auguste Louis Noël. The projects, undertaken by the firm of Noël and Miller from roughly 1932 to 1965, include the Whitney Museum of American Art and several public buildings in Newport, Rhode Island and Long Island, New York. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library |
| Summary: | Correspondence, specifications, and architectural plans from the office of Jamieson Parker, architect of Portland, Oregon. The collection consists primarily of specifications for residential projects and correspondence with clients, including the First Unitarian Church of Portland. A large collection of architectural plans is also included. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records of a project to make public improvements to Seattle's Pike Place Market. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library |
| Summary: | Records of a leading performing arts organization in Portland, Oregon, from its inception in the mid-1920s to its dissolution in the early 1990s. Includes administrative and financial records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, personnel files, scrapbooks, posters, programs, and records of the theatre's educational activities. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection comprises papers of American etcher and architect Louis Conrad Rosenberg, and includes matted etchings, dry points, watercolors, journals, catalogs, architectural renderings, awards, books from his personal library, and information from interviews. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records of the Seattle Department of Engineering consisting of correspondence between the Department and grantees of utility franchises. Also included are agreements, maps, drawings, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | Seattle Municipal Archives |
| Summary: | Records relating to the physical structures and maintenance of Seattle Fire Department station houses. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Organizational records documenting the history and outreach services of the second oldest church in Seattle, Washington. |
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| Repository: | Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Chapel of St. Ignatius on the campus of Seattle University is an award winning architectural sacred space designed by world renowned architect Steven Holl. The materials in this collection document the history of the Chapel of St. Ignatius from the initial project proposal in 1991 through the design, construction and dedication in 1997. The collection includes architectural drawings, artifacts, committee minutes, graphic materials, moving images, award certificates and textual materials. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Richard Haviland Smythe (1889-1965) was an architect, active in the restoration and development of the Stony Brook, Long Island area, and noted for the creation of the modern storefront as typified by Melville Shoe Corporation's chain of Thom McAn shoe stores. The collection includes correspondence and specifications, school notebooks, published material about Richard H. Smythe, architectural plans, lettered projects and oversized projects. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Raymond Smiley Spears was an American author of western and adventure stories. Collection comprises personal and professional correspondence; diaries and journals; manuscripts of books, short stories, and non-fiction articles; tearsheets of stories, articles, and advice columns published under a variety of pseudonyms, Jim Smiley most frequently; research material; whole issues of magazines containing his stories or articles; and copies of his published books. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | John Storrs (1920- ) was a Portland, Oregon area architect. The collection contains architectural drawings. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Images of Seattle hotels, apartment buildings, commercial buildings, and private residences designed by the architectural firms Stuart & Wheatley and Stuart and Durham during the 1920s and 1930s. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Richard Wilhelm Sundeleaf practiced architecture in Portland, Oregon. The collection contains office files, job files, architectural records and photographic materials documenting the Portland, Oregon architect's work from 1924 to 1984. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Architectural drawings for over 400 projects created by architect Roland Terry and his partners |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Cachot Therkelsen (March 30, 1894-May 12, 1964) was a realtor in Portland, Oregon and founded the Therkelsen Investment Company. The collection includes drawings that he collected of architects' original plans and specifications of projects. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection comprises the project files of landscape architect David E. Thompson, including working drawings, sketches and final plans for 138 projects in Washington and Oregon from 1936 to 1970. Projects include parks and recreation sites, schools and colleges, and residential and professional sites. Many project files include complete landscape designs detailing grading, drainage, paving, furniture, irrigation and plantings. |
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| Repository: | University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives |
| Summary: | Art Troutner was an architect, an inventor and the co-founder of Trus Joist Corporation. The collection consists mostly of architectural drawings of residential buildings in Boise and Ketchum, Idaho. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Records of the University of Washington Department of Philosophy |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs and newspaper clippings documenting the construction, collapse, and reconstruction of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge compiled by UW civil engineering professor Frederick B. Farquharson |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection consists primarily of travel diaries, notes, correspondence and ephemera related to research about shrines and religious ceremonies for several manuscripts that Gertrude Bass Warner (1863-1951) was working on. There is also correspondence about pieces of art that she and her husband were collecting to bring back to the United States for a museum exhibit. The bulk of the materials are about Japan during the time period of 1909-1923. Ms. Warner was the founder and director emeritus of the University of Oregon Fine Art Museum. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Warren Weber (1912-1982) was a graduate of the School of Architecture at the University of Oregon. This collection consists of drawings, sketches, specifications, and photographs. |
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| Repository: | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections |
| Summary: | Photographs and plans from the New York architectural firm of Wilder and White documenting the design and construction of the Washington State capitol building and other (primarily East Coast) buildings. |
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| Repository: | Oregon Historical Society, Davies Family Research Library |
| Summary: | The collection documents much of the work of Morris H. Whitehouse (1878-1944), Portland, Or.-based architect whose firms and successors operated for 77 years, making it the longest lived architectural firm in Oregon history. The collection consists of architectural drawings (circa 1905-1974), including details, elevations, perspectives, plans, sections, sketches, tracings, and blueprints that trace the design development of hundreds of residential, commercial and government projects. The collection also contains records (circa 1910-1969), including contracts, correspondence, estimates, invoices, notes, and specifications. Many records correspond with sets of architectural drawings and provide detailed historic overviews of an assortment of jobs, particularly residences. The majority of the drawings and records in the collection are connected with projects in Portland, Or. Some jobs are included from various cities and towns in Oregon and Washington state. The collection also includes a small amount of Whitehouse's early personal papers (circa 1905-1919). |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | Collection comprises the papers of American architect and urban planner Paul Lester Wiener, including architectural and urban planning records for projects undertaken in Latin America, South America, Middle East, and U.S., 1934-1965; speeches, manuscripts of articles, book proposals, biographical information, and a bibliography of works by and about Wiener; and incoming and outgoing correspondence with professional associates and staff, 1913-1968. Architectural and urban planning records are arranged by project and include plans, drawings, specifications, photographs, research materials and memoranda. Major correspondents include José Luis Sert, Paul Schulz and Richard Bender. |
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| Repository: | Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections |
| Summary: | The Fred F. Willson Papers consist of diaries, postcards, letters, printed materials, and architectural drawings which document his long career as a building designer in Montana. The materials discuss both personal and business matters. |
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| Repository: | University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives |
| Summary: | John Yeon (1910-1994) was an Oregon architect, landscape architect, and conservationist best known for his tole in developing the Northwest regional architectural style. The collection consists of architectural drawings for projects, both built and unrealized, including plans, sections, elevations, details, tracings, and blueprints, as well as a number of Northwest maps, aerial photographs, and surveys for both architectural and preservation projects managed by the architect. |
