measured drawings
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Drawings of an existing object, structure, or site, drawn to scale.Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Harvey P. Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: SMITH
Abstract
Harvey Partridge Smith (1889-1964) was a San Antonio architect and early preservationist. The collection consists of measured drawings and field notes documenting Smith's work on Spanish missions in San Antonio.
Dates:
1929-1957
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Henry J. Steinbomer drawings
Collection
Identifier: STE
Abstract
Henry Steinbomer (1902-1964) was born in San Antonio, graduated from the University of Texas in 1923, and was the most prolific church architect in Texas during the 1940s and 1950s. An active collaborator, Steinbomer worked with Ralph Cameron, Atlee B. Ayres, Ellis F. Albaugh, Jack L. Duffin and was a charter member of the Texas Society of Architects. He also worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps marker program and on the Historic American Buildings Survey. This record group consists of...
Dates:
1940-1964
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Marshall and Fox records
Collection
Identifier: MF
Abstract
Marshall and Fox was a Chicago architectural firm (1905-1926), best known for luxury apartment buildings and hotels. After Charles Eli Fox's death in 1926, Benjamin Marshall continued to practice alone until the 1930s. The collection is comprised of drawings, contract ledgers, account books, photographs, project files, specifications, correspondence, plat books and a scrapbook documenting the work of the Chicago architectural firms of Benjamin Marshall, Marshall and Fox, successor firms...
Dates:
1900-1959
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Robert Leon White drawings
Collection
Identifier: RLW
Abstract
Texas architect Robert Leon White (1898-1964) served as supervising architect at the University of Texas during the 1930s and designed significant buildings across the state. The collection consists of drawings including examples of White's student work at The University of Texas, measured drawings, and working drawings documenting White's architectural projects in central Texas.
Dates:
1920-1928
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Sanguinet, Staats and Hedrick records
Collection
Identifier: SSH
Abstract
Sanguinet and Staats, headquartered in Fort Worth was one of the largest and most influential firms in Texas (1903-1930), was best-known for design of steel-framed skyscrapers and transformation of architectural practice from the small studio to large office. Wyatt C. Hedrick joined the firm (1922), bought it when Sanguinet and Staats retired (1926), and he continued doing business under his own name. At one time the firm was the third largest in the country, known for modern style buildings...
Dates:
1910-1969,
1991
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Stewart King collection
Collection
Identifier: KING
Abstract
Stewart King (d. 1970), a contemporary of O'Neil Ford, was a San Antonio landscape architect. Office files, job files, specifications, plant files, periodicals, photographs and landscape plans document Stewart King's work in landscape architecture from 1950-1969.
Dates:
1950-1969
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Texas Architectural collection
Collection
Identifier: TAC
Abstract
The Texas Architectural collection is a grouping of individual project records of Texas properties. Records were acquired over time from various sources, each with their own provenance.
Dates:
1897-1999
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture Archives: Texas Architecture archive
Collection
Identifier: TAA
Abstract
The Texas Architecture archive is a collection of documentary research materials on historic Texas buildings produced by students and initially assembled in 1960 by Professor Drury Blakeley Alexander at The University of Texas School of Architecture. While material in the Texas Architecture archive focuses on buildings across Texas, the strength of the collection is in the Central Texas region. Record types in this collection include measured drawings, reports, photographs, oral history...
Dates:
1948-2015
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
Walter Eugene George, Jr. collection
Collection
Identifier: EG
Abstract
Walter Eugene George Jr. was one of the leading architects of the historic preservation movement in Texas. He reactivated the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in Texas during 1961 following a dormant period of more than two decades. While maintaining a professional practice, George also established a notable career as an educator. Papers, photographic materials, and drawings are representative of his work. Collection materials date from 1951 to 2007 and document historic...
Dates:
1951-2007
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives
William Hersey and John Kyrk collection
Collection
Identifier: HK
Abstract
William P. (Bill) Hersey and John Kyrk worked together as architectural illustrators from the early 1970s until Hersey's death in 1989. Based in California, the two traveled across the United States, often in a Volkswagen bus they operated as a mobile studio, producing contracted renderings for architects, firms, and developers. In addition to architectural drawings, the collection includes other visual material like travel sketches and botanical illustrations, fliers, rubbings, and wood...
Dates:
1970s-1980s
Found in:
Alexander Architectural Archives