Vernon DeMars collection 1933-2005

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Vernon DeMars collection 1933-2005

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The Vernon DeMars Collection spans the years 1933 to 2005, and includes DeMars' personal papers, records from his private practice and professional career, and materials generated by the firms DeMars & Reay, DeMars & Wells, and DeMars & Maletic. The collection is extensive and contains a wide range of materials documenting DeMars' long career as a designer and planner. A small number of artworks and photographs by DeMars' wife, Betty Bates DeMars, are also represented.

15 cartons, 16 manuscript boxes, 6 flat boxes, 1 shoebox, 33 tubes, 18 flat file drawers, 6 models.

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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...

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DeMars, Vernon, 1908-2005

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Vernon Armand DeMars was born in San Francisco, California, in 1908. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1931. After jobs with the National Park Service and travel in the U.S. and Europe, DeMars worked from 1936- 1942 as district architect for the Farm Security Administration's regional office in San Francisco. In 1939, DeMars co-founded Telesis, a city and regional planning organizatio. He married Betty Bates in the same year, with whom...

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The Center, located on the Stanford University campus, was designed by the architectural firm of Wurster, Bernardi, and Emmons. From the description of Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences : photographs, 1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122560975 William W. Wurster earned his degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley in 1919. Wurster's work, primarily residential during his early career, was exhibited and published nationwide. The...

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United States. National Housing Agency

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Wells, John G.

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United States. Mutual Security Agency

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Reay, Donald

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United States. Farm Security Administration

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The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was established within the United States Department of Agriculture to implement the provisions of the Bankhead-Jones Tenant Act of 1937. The agency also took over certain functions of its predecessor, the Resettlement Administration (RA). The FSA made available and administered long-term loans to tenants and sharecroppers, loaned funds to rural cooperatives, and operated camps for migrant farm workers. The FSA was abolished in 1946; the Farmers Home Adminis...