Abstract

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 and include biographical, professional, and membership information for many architects who worked in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Photographs document various chapter events and individuals.

Abstract

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 designs for community centers, civic centers, and museum submittals are also included.

Abstract

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 included. The collection also contains a small number of records from the Cahill World Map Company, and personal and professional writings by Cahill.

Scope and Contents 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 researcher. Series I: Personal Papers (1941-1982) contains biographical information and photographs from Cardwell’s time serving in the U.S. military during WWII when he was stationed in New Guinea and...

Scope and Contents

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.

Scope and Contents 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 majority of the Projects Records series documents Cohen's projects spanning the years 1956-1978, and documents his work through drawings, photographs and slides, and administrative files. The majority of projects are...

Abstract

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.

Abstract 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 the late 1990s. Project Records include preliminary sketches, working drawings, renderings, final plans, and blueprints. They also include some written records (correspondence, specifications, notes, and reports) and...

Scope and Contents 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 are private residences and public housing projects in California. Also included in the collection materials are copies of his published books and several articles, as well as a few papers from his studies at UC Berkeley and Yale. There are teaching materials,...

Scope and Contents

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 is only partially processed.