Lutah Maria Riggs Collection 1896-1984

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Lutah Maria Riggs Collection 1896-1984

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333.0 Linear feet; 90 record cartons, 24 clamsell boxes, 3 card file boxes, and 39 flat file drawers

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University of California, Santa Barbara. Art, Design & Architecture Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 6658738

University of California, Santa Barbara. Art, Design & Architecture Museum

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Riggs, Lutah Maria, 1896-

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Biographical Note Lutah Maria Riggs was born in Toledo Ohio in 1896. She received her education at the Santa Barbara city Junior College in 1917, then went on to get her architecture degree at the University of California Berkeley in 1919. She finished her graduate coursework at Berkeley in 1920. She began her career as a drafts woman and designer for Ralph D. Taylor, and then became a drafts woman for George Washington Smith in S...

Smith, George Washington, 1876-1930

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Biographical Note Born in Pennsylvania in 1876, George Washington Smith was the son of a respected civil engineer for Southern Pacific Railroad Atlantic and Pacific Railway. He began his education with the study of art and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of fine arts, and later attended Harvard University where he studied architecture. He began his career as a draftsman with Newman, Woodman and Harris, but soon after, took a position wit...