Bernard J. S. Cahill records 1889-1938

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Bernard J. S. Cahill records 1889-1938

3 manuscript boxes, 5 oversize folders, 1 flat box, 2 artifacts

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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...

Cahill, B. J. S. (Bernard J. S.), 1867-

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Architect and cartographer Bernard Joseph Stanislaus Cahill (1866-1944) was born in London, England, and emigrated to the United States in 1888. Eventually settling in San Francisco, his work included designs for hotels, factories, mausoleums, and an unsuccessful 1904 plan for the San Francisco Civic Center. He later developed a "Butterfly map projection" which he promoted, with little success, through his Cahill World Map Company. From the description of Bernard Joseph Stanislaus Ca...

Cahill World Map Co.

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