Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Simpson, Horace G.
- Extent:
- 2 Linear Feet: 2 folders, 5 oversize folders, 2 albums, 1 framed drawing
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Horace G. Simpson Collection, (1966-1), Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Horace G. Simpson collection consists of photographs and drawings relating to Simpson's education and to competition entries by the firm Wood & Simpson. Photographs include images of Simpson's second place drawings for the 1908 Rotch Scholarship Competition and a group photograph that may be a class picture. Student work includes drawings from the 1907 and 1908 Rotch competitions, a study for a New York hotel, and a perspective drawing of a skyscraper. Drawings from the firm Wood & Simpson are primarily competition entries for public buildings such as the San Francisco Civic Center and the Santa Barbara County Courthouse. The collection also contains two volumes of full-size details illustrating building in Italy, Greece, France, and Venice.
- Biographical / historical:
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Horace G. Simpson practiced architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area during the early twentieth century.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research
- Terms of access:
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All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the Curator.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of Item], Horace G. Simpson Collection, (1966-1), Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
- Location of this collection:
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230 Bauer Wurster Hall #1820Berkeley, CA 94720-1820, US
- Contact:
- (510) 642-5124