Walter Guthrie records 1980-2006

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Walter Guthrie records 1980-2006

4 cartons, 2 tall boxes, 2 card file boxes, 48 tubes

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6658782

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...

Guthrie, Walter, 1932-2006.

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Walter Guthrie attended the Jewish Farm School in Doylestown, PA, and served in the Military from 1956-1958 surveying the East German Border. In 1958, he graduated from Oregon State in horticulture and design and went to work for the landscape firm of Osmundson & Staley. Guthrie left Osmundson to work for Thomas Church in 1961 (replacing Casey Kawamoto). After working for more than a decade (1961 to 1973) with Church, Guthrie joined the firm which became Johnson, Leffingwell and Guthrie. Thi...