E. Geoffrey Bangs Collection
Scope and Contents
The E. Geoffrey Bangs collection consists primarily of black and white photographs documenting numerous Bay Area residential and commercial buildings. The photographs include images of University of California, Berkeley buildings as well. Some of the photographs in the collection may be for Bangs’ a photo essay entitled “Portals West: A Folio of Late Nineteenth Century Architecture in California.” The collection also contains a typescript of this book, which was published by the California Historical Society.
Dates
- 1950-1969 approximate
Access Statement
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the Curator.
Biographical Note
E. Geoffrey Bangs was a Bay Area architect and a graduate of University of California, Berkeley. He earned his bachelor’s degree in 1914 and continued on to obtain his master’s the following year. His early career was spent working in the office of John Galen Howard. Bangs designed many public buildings and large-scale public housing projects in Northern California. His projects included UC Berkeley’s Lewis Hall, the Contra Costa Hall of Records, and the courthouses for Shasta and Butte counties. He died in 1977.
Extent
5 Linear Feet: (1 folder, 2 flat boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
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 a photo essay entitled "Portals West: A Folio of Late Nineteenth Century Architecture in California." The collection also contains a typescript of this book which was published by the California Historical Society.
- Title
- E. Geoffrey Bangs Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Amir Soltani
- Date
- September 1998
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Arrangement and description of this collection was funded by a grant from the Getty Foundation.
Repository Details
Part of the University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives Repository