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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 growth of company towns and the construction of low cost housing. Correspondence includes memoranda from Bernard Maybeck, supervising architect on the project.

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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.

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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 (ca. 1896), the San Francisco Masonic Temple (n.d.), commercial buildings for Mrs. W.W. Young, and the Alameda Moving Picture Theater (n.d.).

Scope and Contents 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 directing master plans throughout the University of California system, many of which are well documented in this collection. Series I: Personal Papers (1950-2007), consists of biographical...

Scope and Contents 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 papers in the form of biographical information and student work from Grimes' high school education and college career studying Architecture at UC Berkeley compose the first series dating from 1939 to 2006. The second...

Scope and Contents 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 Christ, Scientist (San Francisco), the A.A. Tibbe Residence (Oakland), the Principia College library (Illinois), and St. Francis Wood, San Francisco. The sketches include a portrait, a landscape, and a...

Scope and Contents 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, Project Records, ILAUD Papers, and Mayors’ Institute of Design Papers. Within this collection, records have been arranged either chronologically or alphabetically as noted...

Scope and Contents 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 MFA thesis. Office Records, the second series, contains material that documents Maule’s career but are not project specific and include: awards and certificates, brochures from the firms Maule led or worked for, his AIA...

Scope and Contents 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 Historical Sites Committee. The Office Records document administrative operations, public relations, and correspondence. Also included are clippings from newspapers and tear sheets from magazines in...

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The Student Work collection is an artificial collection composed of materials from the College of Environmental Design Department of Architecture students. The boxes contain bound volumes of student work—photographs of presentation boards pasted/mounted onto thick paper pages. The images were reduced in size so the type and some images are very hard to view or read in some cases.