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The American Institute of Architects Archives
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Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley
Collection Number: 1955-4. Extent: 11 boxes, 20 flat file drawers, 13 tubes, 2 flat boxes, 5 folios. Microfilm containing selected records and drawings from the collection is available in the Bancroft Library: BANC FILM 2554 and in the Environmental Design Library: MICROFILM 78314 NA.
The collection, which spans the years 1884-1931 (bulk 1891-1927), consists of records, drawings, and photographs relating to John Galen Howard's architectural career. The collection comprehensively documents the buildings for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition in Seattle, Washington. It also shows Howard's architectural influence on the University of California, Berkeley campus beginning with the Phoebe Hearst Competition and continuing through his 22 years as Supervising Architect. This collection contains no records pertaining to his work as a Professor or as the Director of the School of Architecture. The collection is organized into seven series: Personal papers, Professional papers, Office records, Project records, University of California, Berkeley records, Art and Artifacts, and Additional Donations.
Notable papers in the first series are the assignments and student drawings from his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. This series also contains examples of his watercolors, pastels, and sketches, a hobby he pursued for much of his life. The professional papers series is small with the most significant group of correspondence relating to the San Francisco American Institute of Architects "trial" and chapter reorganization.
The office records contain scrapbooks and clipbooks, with a few photographs collected for research purposes. The scrapbooks contain photographs of completed buildings, project sketches, terrazzo sketches, newspaper clippings about projects, and obituaries of Howard. The clipbooks were books of architectural journal clippings used as idea books in Beaux-Arts offices. Included in Howard's books are drawings and illustrations of exterior and interior views, plans, plates, and articles, generally taken from The Architectural Review, The Brickbuilder, and American Country Homes. (Please note: Clipbooks are stored off site at NLRF. Call number: ENVI \f\ NA 737.H6 S37).
The project records include specifications, photographs, and drawings from the private commissions and the public buildings from his architectural career. Projects in this series include the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition Complex, commercial and residential buildings for the Spreckles family, and the Gregory family residences.
The fifth series focuses on the planning and design work by Howard for the University of California, Berkeley. The records begin with the designs for the Phoebe Hearst Architectural Competition and go through his retirement as Supervising Architect for the University in 1923. The project records include drawings for the Competition, as well as files and designs for numerous buildings including California Hall, Boalt Hall (original), Gilman Hall, the Hearst Mining Building, and the Agricultural building.
The final series is an additional donation of a watercolor of an unidentified rendering for a proposed hotel.
Link to online finding aid: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1b69n5kh
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