The Theodore C. Bernardi collection is arranged in three series: Personal Papers, Professional Papers, and Project Records. The bulk of the collection consists of drawings, though some correspondence is also included. The first series, Personal Papers, contains Bernardi’s student drawings, including books of basic drawing exercises as well as elaborately rendered presentation boards. Professional papers contains minimal correspondence, drawings of the San Carlos Presidio Church (Monterey) completed as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey and some unidentified competition boards. The final series contains records of residences designed and built for Mr. and Mrs. Russell Giffen by the firm Wurster, Bernardi and Emmons.