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Horace G. Simpson Collection, 1907-1917
1966-1
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Collection Title: Horace G. Simpson Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1907-1917
Collection Number: 1966-1
Creator:
Simpson, Horace G.
Wood & Simpson
Extent:
2 folders, 5 oversize folders, 2 albums, 1 framed drawing
Repository:
Environmental Design Archives.
University of California, Berkeley.
Berkeley, California.
Abstract: The collection is comprised of consists of photographs and drawings relating to Simpson's education and to competition entries
by the firm Wood & Simpson.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the
Curator.
[Identification of item], Horace G. Simpson Collection, (1966-1), Environmental Design Archives. University of California,
Berkeley. Berkeley, California.
The bulk of the collection was donated in 1966.
Architects--California.
Architecture--California.
Wood & Simpson.
Horace G. Simpson practiced architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area during the early twentieth century.
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
Couthouse. The collection also contains two volumes of full-size details illustrating building in Italy, Greece, France,
and Venice.