ADC Study collection, 1855-2013

Summary

Title:

ADC Study collection

Dates:

1855-2013

Extent:

4.5 Linear feet (9 half record storage boxes)

Language:

Preferred citation:

ADC Study collection, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

The ADC Study collection spans 4.5 linear feet and dates from circa 1855 to the present. The collection, compiled by the repository from assorted acquisitions, contains photographs, negatives, ephemera including posters, articles and clippings and a few documents, all organized alphabetically by architect or topic and arranged in three series: Articles and Clippings, Photographic Materials, and Printed Ephemera. Note that the respository has additional material in other collections about architects and topics in this collection. This is an open, growing collection.

Biographical / historical:

Collection was formed by the repository from small separate acquisitions, and is added to periodically.

Physical location:

Boxes 1-9/ADC - regular

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Adobe houses
Architect-designed furniture -- United States -- 20th century
Architects -- California
Architectural firms -- California
Architecture -- California
Architecture -- California -- 19th century
Architecture -- California -- 20th century
Architecture -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th Century
Architecture -- California -- Palm Springs
Architecture -- California -- San Diego -- 20th century
Architecture -- California -- Santa Barbara -- 20th century
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- California
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- California -- Los Angeles
Architecture, Spanish Colonial -- California, Southern
Architecture--California--20th century--Designs and plans.
Arts and crafts movement -- California
Arts and crafts movement -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
California missions
Campus planning -- California -- Santa Barbara
Commercial buildings
Furniture design
Hotels (public accommodations)
Interior architecture--Pictorial works
Landscape architecture -- California
Los Angeles (Calif.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Plaza de la Guerra (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Prefabricated houses -- United States
Ranch houses--Design and construction
Schindler, Rudolph Michael 1887-1953 -- Archives
Schools (buildings)
Spanish Colonial Revival
University of California, Santa Barbara -- Buildings -- Pictorial works
Women architects
Architectural drawings
Architectural models
Architectural photographs
Art Deco
Black-and-white slides
Building permits
Ceramic tile
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Color slides
Contracts
Correspondence
Letters
Negatives
Photographic prints
Postcards
Presentation drawings (proposals)
Printed ephemera
Renderings
Reprographic copies
Sketches
Specifications

Names:

Allison and Allison, Architects.
Alllied Architects Association of Los Angeles.
Barton Myers Associates.
Edwards, Plunkett & Howell.
Edwards-Pitman, Architects.
Gladding, McBean and Company.
Johnson, Kaufmann & Coate.
Killingsworth, Brady and Associates .
Moule and Polyzoides (Firm).
Parkinson and Parkinson.
Santa Barbara Community Arts Association.
Smith and Williams.
Soule and Murphy.
Abell, Thornton M., (Thornton Montaigne), 1906-1984
Ain, Gregory, 1908-1988
Byers, John, 1875-1966
Carjola, Chester J., 1901-1985
Chambers, H. C., (Harold Coulson), 1885-1971
Chase, Pearl
Church, Myron H.
Clements, Stiles Oliver, 1883-1966
Coxhead, Ernest A., 1863-1933
Craig, James Osborne, 1888-1922
Craig, Margaret
Crawford, Rowland Henry, 1902-1973
Curlett, Alexander E., 1880-1942
Davidson, Julius Ralph, 1889-1977
Derrah, Robert Vincent, 1895-1946
Edwards, William Albert, 1888-1976
Frey, Albert, 1903-1998
Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983
Gebhard, David, 1927-1996
Gill, Irving, 1870-1936
Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924
Grey, Elmer, 1871-1963
Harris, Harwell Hamilton, 1903-1990
Hoag, Paul Sterling, 1913-2002
Hoyt, Robert Ingle, 1913-1985
Hunt, Myron, 1868-1952
Johnson, Reginald D., 1882-1953
Kaufmann, Gordon B.
Kelley, H. Roy, (Harold Roy), 1892-1989
Laszlo, Paul, 1900-1993
Lyndon, Maynard, 1907-1999
May, Cliff, 1908-1989
Maybeck, Bernard R., 1862-1957
McCoy, Esther, 1920-1989
Mead, Frank
Miller, Marcus P., 1891-1949
Moore, Charles Willard, 1925-1993
Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970
Newsom, Joseph Cather
Newsom, Samuel
Pereira, William L., 1909-1985
Peters, Jock, (Jacob Detlof), 1889-1934
Plunkett, Joseph J., 1900-1946
Polyzoides, Stefanos
Rapson, Ralph, 1914-2008
Reichardt, Walter L., (Walter Louis), 1908-1995
Requa, Richard S., b. 1881
Riggs, Lutah Maria, 1896-1984
Sabin, Henry Palmer, 1982-1956
Schindler, R. M., (Rudolph M. ), 1887-1953
Shulman, Julius, 1910-2009
Smith, George Washington, 1876-1930
Smith, Whitney Rowland, 1911-2002
Soriano, Raphael, 1904-1988
Spaulding, Sumner, 1892/3-1952
Stacy-Judd, Robert, 1884-1975
Thomas, John Hudson, 1878-1945
Underhill, Francis T., 1863-1929
Van Pelt, Garrett, 1879-1972
Whittlesey, Charles F.
Williams, Paul R., 1894-1980
Williams, Wayne, 1919-2007
Winslow, Carleton Monroe, 1876-1946
Woolf, John Elgin, 1908-1980
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Wright, Lloyd, 1890-1978

Places:

Architecture--California--20th century--Designs and plans
Los Angeles (Calif.) 1920-1940
San Diego (calif.)

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Finding aid prepared by Alexandra Adler, Chris Marino and Jocelyne Lopez

Sponsor:

The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on Library and Information Resources “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives” Project.

Date Prepared:

2012

Date Encoded:

This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2018-05-14T16:14-0700

Restrictions:

Open for use by qualified researchers.

Preferred citation:

ADC Study collection, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:

UC Santa Barbara, Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design and Architecture Museum

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7130, US

Contact:

(805) 893-2724

adc@museum.ucsb.edu

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