Ernest and Esther Born collection 1924-1985

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Ernest and Esther Born collection 1924-1985

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The Ernest and Esther Born Collection spans the years 1924-1985 and contains six series: Personal Papers, Professional papers, Project Records, BART, Golden Gate International Exposition, and the UC Greek theatre Reconstruction. The collection is comprised of two primary parts: Ernest Born's personal and professional papers and the records of his practice including design, exhibit, and building projects; and the architectural photographs of Esther Born.

10 manuscript boxes, 5 flat boxes, 2 flat file drawers.

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Environmental Design Archives

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Environmental Design Archives

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Environmental Design Archives

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William W. Wurster founded the Environmental Design Archives (then the Architectural Archives) in 1953 as a teaching collection, following the recommendation of eminent architectural historian Henry Russell Hitchcock. The personal papers and project records of Bernard Maybeck comprised the inaugural donation. In 1973 the Department of Landscape Architecture combined its collections with the Architectural Archives prompting the College of Environmental Design to adopt the name "Documents Collecti...

San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (Calif.)

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Born, Esther, 1902-1987

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Biographical Note Ernest Born (1898-1992) Ernest Born was born in San Francisco in 1898. Educated in San Francisco and Oakland schools, he graduated from UC Berkeley's School of Architecture in 1922. Following graduation he traveled to Europe on a Fellowship returning to receive his master's degree in Architecture from the University of California in 1923. From 1927 to 1928 he studied decorative painting and fresco in Europe and i...

Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.)

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History It has been said that with two great bridges in the course of construction, there began in San Francisco, in about 1933, a substantial feeling that a celebration or exposition should be held to commemorate their completion. As the plans for an exposition developed, it seemed fitting that its theme should be man's progress in communication, transportation, trade and industry, since these were the fields symbolized by the bridges. The S...

Born, Ernest, 1898-1992

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Ernst Born was an architect, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a frequent collaborator with Walter Horn. From the description of Ernest Born architectural drawings of medieval aisled timber halls. ca. 1944-ca. 1981. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 419226654 Ernest Born was born in 1898. He studied architecture under John Galen Howard at UC Berkeley and then went to work in Europe. On his return he worked in New York for almost ten years...

Greek Theatre (Berkeley, Calif.)

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