Decoration and ornament, Architectural

Charles Weldon York was an interior designer and faculty member in the Interior Design Division in the Department of Home Economics at The University of Texas at Austin. The collection documents York’s professional career as a designer, author, and educator. Record types include course materials, correspondence, notes, student work, and reference articles.

Henry Charles Trost (1860-1933) was a prominent American architect, known for his firm's, Trost & Trost's, work in the Southwestern United States. This collection includes architectural design sketches of his work on several projects, with subjects ranging from metal ornaments to building façades. These sketches range in date from approximately 1904 to 1930. Record types include sketches and papers.

Lucy T. Shoe Meritt began her career as a student, teacher, and scholar of classical archaeology and architecture in 1915. The collection consists of documents reflecting her many publications (at different stages of publication), drawings separate from publications, correspondence, personal papers, photographic material (including slides) separate from publications, oral history audiocassettes, and miscellaneous other material.